Marijuana-Hemp
After several years of volatility for U.S. growers, prices and acreage of industrial hemp appear to be stabilizing or even rising modestly, according to the 2025 National Hemp Report.
Producers stuck on the hemp sidelines may be able to take advantage of HempHub USA, a push by two companies to transport a decortication machine into states with legal hemp programs. Essentially, the processing machinery will leapfrog perpetual infrastructure roadblocks and enable farmers to bring crops to market.
The early, buck-wild days of hemp farming spawned many a gun-shy grower, but Aaron Baldwin found a sweet spot. He brought hemp processing home and established a corresponding grower group.
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The age of marijuana farming in the U.S. has arrived, although most farmers are caught on the sidelines. As individual state cultivation barriers topple at a dizzying pace, U.S. agriculture’s billion-dollar dance with marijuana has begun and there will be no strike of the clock at midnight.
A Trump wall made of hemp is far from reality, but the concept reflects the remarkable promise of a once-maligned crop emerging in the marketplace.
Giles Shell’s hemp venture is paying dividends for his farm in Garrard County, and he hopes the entire state of Kentucky.
Chris Adams punched 300 acres of hemp ground in 2017 and hopes to start indoor production of marijuana in 2018. The maverick producer has picked the cannabis horse as a strong runner for agriculture.
Ryan Loflin bet the farm in 2013 and did what no U.S. producer had done for 70 years.
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South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem has reiterated her opposition to legalizing industrial hemp production in South Dakota, even in the face of new federal rules allowing the cash crop.
Is hemp cultivation a crapshoot or is it poised to be a blue-chip crop? Experts weigh in.
Can you identify the pests in your hemp field? Take this fun quiz to find out!
Can you identify the pests in your hemp field? Take this fun quiz to find out!
Can you identify the pests in your hemp field? Take this fun quiz to find out!
Can you identify the pests in your hemp field? Take this fun quiz to find out!
Can you identify the pests in your hemp field? Take this fun quiz to find out!
Can you identify the pests in your hemp field? Take this fun quiz to find out!
Can you identify the pests in your hemp field? Take this fun quiz to find out!
This year’s unusual weather could skew the results of the studies, impacting the kind of information the state has to gauge the prospect of growing hemp in Kansas.
Hemp continues down the road of return as a standard U.S. row crop, with 23,343 acres in 2017, despite federal prohibition. Acreage more than doubled from 2016, and state licenses were issued to 1,424 producers.
We asked Tom Dermody, vice president of operations for Bija Hemp in Denver, Colo., some pressing questions about hemp seed regulation and availability:
USDA’s goal is to issue regulations in fall 2019 to accommodate the 2020 planting season, the agency said in a recent release.
Arizona farmers will soon begin planting hemp as its byproduct - CBD oil - is exploding in popularity, with some supporters
As recreational cannabis is allowed in more states, however, brewers have started to merge the plants.
The year of hemp jubilee has arrived, roughly 80 years after Uncle Sam locked the maligned cannabis variety in the federal attic.