Hemp farmers and their supporters are bullish about the future as they prepare to harvest their first crop under a state program that started five months ago. “Hemp can change everything if we utilize it right,” said Andrew Johnson, a licensed hemp processor and founder of Wisconsin Hemp Strategies. Gov. Scott Walker and legislators in […]
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Industrial Hemp Is On The Rise In Virginia
Somewhere near Cape Charles, eight acres of cannabis nods in an Eastern Shore breeze. It looks like pot. It smells like pot. Don’t call the law. The cops already know. This is a test plot of industrial hemp – a member of the marijuana family that could become a common sight across the state if […]
At George Washington’s Mount Vernon, a luscious crop of cannabis nears harvest time
Dean Norton, director of horticulture at George Washington’s Mount Vernon, pulls out his cellphone and cranks up some Jimi Hendrix as he walks toward the cannabis patch on the founding father’s estate. The weed is tall, planted in tight rows, and has the serrated leaf edges of your classic ganja. As Hendrix’s 1968 epic “Voodoo Child” […]
New Belgium Teams Up With Willie Nelson To Promote Hemp Production
New Belgium Brewing, which launched The Hemperor HPA in the spring, is partnering with Vote Hemp and GCH, the company behind Willie Nelson’s cannabis brands, on the American Hemp Campaign. The effort, which is aimed at promoting the benefits of allowing commercial hemp production in the United States, is being launched on the Fourth of […]
It’s Legal To Grow Hemp In Kansas, But It Won’t Be Easy
P.J. Sneed is a nurse at a hospital in Wichita, but only until the end of the June. That’s when he’ll quit to become a hemp farmer. “I’ve not grown a stitch of hemp,” he said. “But I feel like I know how I could do it and have a plan to do it.” He’ll […]
Minnesota Pilot Program Has The Industrial Hemp As High As An Elephant’s Eye
Michael Erickson’s newest cash crop was a real traffic stopper. As the little green plants sprouted in his fields outside East Grand Forks and began to unfurl their jagged narrow leaves, Erickson started to notice more cars cruising along his road, slowing for a good long look at the waving fields of hemp — a […]
In Maine, Industrial Hemp Is The Crop To Watch
Farmer Ben Rooney spent several days last week rushing around Wild Folk Farm in Benton planting 300 seedlings of Maine’s trendiest new crop, industrial hemp. “We’re kind of in the heat of it now,” he said. It’s an apt expression; hemp is Maine’s hot new crop after nearly a century of falling by the wayside. […]
Senate Agriculture Panel Passes Farm Bill With Hemp Legalization
The Senate Agriculture Committee on Wednesday passed the massive farm bill by a 20-1 vote and overcame an attempt to tighten subsidy payments to farmers. The draft farm bill, officially known as the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, contains more than 1,000 pages and covers everything from farm subsidies and food stamps to trade and rural […]
Could Hemp Be A Savior For Kansas Agriculture?
Clark Kelman raises corn and soybeans just like his father and grandfather did on the High Plains of Kansas. There isn’t anything wrong with that, the fifth-generation Haskell County farmer said. But with water levels declining on their southwest Kansas farm and the downturn in the farm economy, he envisions growing something different. Kelman wants […]
Can Industrial Hemp Make A Comeback In Iowa?
The momentum for legalizing industrial hemp in America is building. Iowa supporters of the once-prevalent crop, though, have moved on from being eager about its possibilities to anxious to get growing. Hemp got lumped in with its infamous sibling cannabis crop, marijuana, when it was made illegal to grow in the U.S. without a permit in 1970. But hemp […]
