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For decades, the government banned hemp. Now, it’s funding hemp research to fight climate change

On a bright, chilly day in mid-October, Lincoln University graduate student Joshua Asiamah loads tall, dried, brown stalks onto a John Deere all-terrain vehicle. Asiamah moved from Ghana to the United ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Farmers struggle with hemp grain, hang hopes on fiber, CBD

VIROQUA, Wis.VIROQUA, Wis. — Farmers are questioning whether growing hemp for grain will ever be profitable in Wisconsin, but they see the potential in the future of hemp fiber and CBD products. The ...
AG Week

Hemp producers and processors concerned about possible added regulations in new farm bill

WINFRED, S.D. — There has been a steadily growing interest in hemp production across the nation, but most notably in South Dakota, which was named the top producer of hemp in 2024. The 2018 Farm Bill ...
Modern Farmer

Reconsidering Hemp: A Promising Grain Crop

Since 2019, the commercial production of hemp has been a legal reality. In 2018, with the introduction of the Farm Bill, various policies related to it as an industrial and food crop were enacted, ...
High Times

3 Years into Nation’s Hemp Experiment, Crop’s Future is Hazy

PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) — Three years into the nation’s hemp experiment, a 20-acre farm in southern Colorado exemplifies the crop’s hazy potential. Hemp could be enormously profitable, but right now there ...
Benzinga.com

Hemp And Thanksgiving: From The Mayflower To Independence, The Crop That Helped Build A Nation

George Washington himself championed the crop, producing over 1,300 yards of hemp and flax fabric annually at Mount Vernon by 1767. Despite its importance, hemp production often lagged behind demand ...
High Times

Ohio Company Signs Deal To Grow Hemp for Bioplastic

A hemp producer based in Dayton, Ohio has a new customer for its crop after the firm signed a deal with a processor in nearby Michigan to provide raw material for hemp-based bioplastics. Under its new ...
Iowa Public Radio

Hemp farming is booming again. A federal ban on hemp-derived THC products puts the crop in jeopardy

A federal ban on most hemp-derived THC products is expected to go into effect in November. It could eliminate the most profitable market for farmers who grow hemp. Subscribe to the new Harvest ...
Yahoo

Hemp was supposed to benefit SC farmers. Many have ditched the crop.

Thomas Garrison, a multi-generation farmer in Anderson County, said he believed the hype around hemp. Garrison, who’s farmed in Pendelton since graduating from Clemson in 1980, was among the group who ...

Dallas CBD shop will shutter in response to new legislation

CBD Farmhouse, a woman-owned hemp dispensary located at 4448 Spring Valley Rd. , will close at the end of March in response to new legislation in Texas placing harsh restrictions on the sale of hemp ...
Iowa Public Radio

For decades, the government banned hemp. Now, it’s funding hemp research

Lincoln University in Missouri is heading a USDA-funded project researching the commodity, but its prohibition created high hurdles for getting the crop off the ground. On a bright chilly day in ...