Mr. Barry Caslin:

Yes, that is a key point. A critical mass of the crop is needed to justify building a decortication plant.

Many things could be done under one umbrella at a site, as with a biorefinery. A site could be producing the construction material and processing the fibres. On the same site, one could be processing the food components into hemp oils, and potentially processing the flowers, if allowed, into CBD. All the constituents of the plant then would be used, which would make the economics far more favourable and give confidence to the market.