b'California-based Arcadia Biosciences has also struck a deal with Tritium 3H to distribute three of its GoodHemp varieties in Canada. PHOTO: ARCADIA BIOSCIENCESSpecializing in hemp variety testing and commercialization of industrial hemp varieties, Tritium3H announced an exclusive three-year license agreement with Colorado-based CW Hemp Supply Co., a division of American CBD product brand Charlottes Web. The brand made headlines in 2013 when news network CNN profiled Charlotte Figi, who in 2006 was only months old when she was diagnosed with Dravet Syndrome, a rare form of epilepsy that starts in infancy.By the time she was five, she was having 300 seizures a day. Her parents tried a CBD product manufactured by Colorado hemp growers the Stanley brotherswho would go on to found Charlottes Weband her seizures all but stopped. Charlotte became one of the faces of the CBD movement and a testament to the potential benefits of the cannabinoid.Sadly, Charlotte passed away in April of 2020 at the age of 13, but her legacy lives on. Colorado has officially named April 7 as Charlotte Figi Day in the state.Now, two Charlottes Web varietiesCW Ambassador and CW Duchessare approved for production in Canada. They are among the first hemp CBD cultivars on the Health Canada list that are early flowering and early maturing for outdoor cultivation and harvesting within the shorter Canadian growing season. The hemp seeds will be produced and sold under the CW Hemp Supply Co. brand.Charlottes Web co-founder Jared Stanley said the deal with Tritium3H will enable both Charlottes Web and Tritium3H to drive future hemp innovation for the Canadian market.Of course, innovation cant happen without a degree of consumer confidence. Bear Reel, vice president of cultivation and R&D at Charlottes Web, was the lead developer of the two new cultivars approved by Health Canada. She says consumer confidence in hemp extract products relies first and foremost on good hemp genetics. Identifying those genetics isnt easy, however.Need for TrialingLike many crops in Canada, hemp varieties that grow well here need to be early flowering. Identifying those varieties means a need for regional variety trials, something that prior to now has been difficult, according to Randy Shultz, chief technology officer for the California-based Arcadia Biosciences. Arcadia also has struck a deal with Tritium3H to distribute three of its GoodHemp varieties in Canada. The varieties are Umpqua (CBD-dominant, early photoperiod variety for both the smokable and CBD extraction markets); Rogue (CBD-dominant, high-yielding intermediate photoperiod variety for the CBD extraction markets); and Santiam (CBD-dominant, early photoperiod variety suited to northern latitudes for both the smokable and CBD extraction markets).Something thats been missing on the hemp side is rigorous, regional trialing in different locations and latitudes. We haveJan Slaski, principal researcher at InnoTech Alberta, stands in a field of our own regional trialing network through cooperators. To behemp plantsFall 2021 53'