What is biochar,does it have anything to do with hemp?
What is biochar,does it have anything to do with hemp?
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Cleverclogs
It’s a particular type of charcoal that is made by burning out the organic matter. It’s usually made with wood, corn stalks, straw, and more. At present, there are plenty of studies looking into using hemp for biochar.
acevedobenitez
Biochar is charcoal made from agricultural waste. Biochar is an ancient practice of taking waste materials from farming and burning them down to make a type of soil enhancer. It helps with water retention and reintroducing carbon into the soil. The production of biochar can also create byproducts that can be used for fuel. With the booming hemp industry, companies can make better biochar by using the discarded hemp stalks. Hemp biochar is showing to be great for other crops in pest control, reducing the need for chemical pesticides.
HempGuru
Biochar is a charcoal-based soil compound that’s commonly used by farmers. It’s made from biodegradable materials like wood and is excellent to stimulate plant growth. It has a larger surface area, which is excellent for the microbial environment that’s essential for healthy soil. Biochar also attracts water and nutrients. So, for all these reasons, it’s used by many hemp growers to boost their harvest. But some companies are experimenting with hemp biochar that’s made using hemp waste.
MarcLouis
Biochar is charcoal that is used as a soil amendment. Biochar has many soil health benefits. It reduces the need for fertilizer and water. Biochar has a bit to do with hemp as Biochar can be produced from hemp. They produce Biochar by low oxygen cooking the hemp stalk.
Hempmaster3000
I had never heard of biochar before this!
Biochar is like charcoal made from burning organic waste material by a controlled burn called pyrolysis. While burning the energy is captured and used as clean energy since it was organic material that burned. That is biochar, and scientists are now looking at hemp to be the next organic material burned to create this clean energy.
Abe
They have similarities that make them work as a team! Biochar is a soil supplement that consists of combusted plants that trap carbon dioxide. So they share mutual unique green power, and they are used to create producers experiment with making biochar out of hemp.
wordsmith
Biochar a type of charcoal produced by burning organic material. Materials that can be used to create biochar are wood and other substances such as straw and corn stalks. It is made through heating this organic material while starving it of oxygen that reduces contamination and traps carbon. Industries are trying to do experiments of creating biochar out from hemp.
wavess
Biochar is a soil amendment made from combusted plants that can trap carbon dioxide, and, yes, biochar does have something to do with hemp. There are many similarities between the hemp industry and the biochar industry. Both have recently been rediscovered by farmers as a product with huge potential for future inventions. Researchers are now beginning to experiment with making biochar from hemp, bringing the two industries even closer together.
CrayM
As stated above, it is an organic material that has been burned in a specific way. Yes, it does have something to do with hemp in the manner that hemp could be used to comprise biochar. It’s also used in a variety of agricultural needs, related primarily to soil composition.
Melody
Biochar is like charcoal made from the burning of different organic material wastes by pyrolysis, a specialized controlled burn. The energy created is captured and used as clean energy. The remaining material is called biochar. It is used to amend the soil. Producers are now experimenting with making biochar from industrial hemp.
amanda.tolar
So it’s like compost, sort of? Or rather, what’s left over, this biochar, could be used as such?
Moogdummy
Yeah, It is like compost, but the most significant difference is that biochar is burnt, which makes the soil carbon-rich if added.
It is also very porous and can affect the acidity of the soil in specific ways.
There are a few different reasons why you would use biochar,
Now that hemp is popularized, it is being experimented with as biochar, and one promising feature is that it might help to store greenhouse gases and fight global warming.
Hemp makes a lot of waste (like their stalks), so they may be good candidates for making hemp biochar.