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A Hastings farmer known for trailblazing Minnesota's industrial hemp industry is urging lawmakers to lift some limitations on how his crop can be used and marketed. Towers of spindly, green leaves swayed gently in the breeze as researchers, hemp industry stakeholders and members of the...

Decades before cannabis was made illegal in 1937, hemp was a big cash crop for Kentucky. In 1850, the Bluegrass State produced 40,000 tons of the stuff. During World War II, the government paid citizens to grow the plant. Now it's at the center of a bill that would legalize hemp on a federal...

The marijuana crop stands 7-feet-tall in the field, ready for harvesting. Experimental plots of industrial hemp, the non-potent marijuana plant, are more than a month ahead of schedule. Pennsylvania Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding checked out the local fields on Monday. Dell Riley of...

Imagine looking to build a home 50 years from now. What kind of materials do you think will be used for building materials? Did materials made from hemp cross your mind? The hemp plant, like its sister the marijuana plant, is not a new crop to the country. In fact, according to the Pennsylvania...

1. Lancaster County was the hemp capital of early America. The county's original Hempfield Township was formed in 1729 and was named for the "vast quantities of hemp raised there." 2. George Washington visited and inspected Pennsylvania hemp mills. In 1794 President George Washington visited...

Laulima Pahoa is hosting its inaugural All Things Cannabis Hemp Festival from noon-6 p.m. today at Uncle Robert's Awa Bar in Kalapana. The event will feature a day of free, family-friendly cannabis education. Speakers alternating with songwriters will keep the knowledge light and flowing, and...

Pennsylvania’s top agriculture official was present to witness a groundbreaking moment on Thursday. “We’re making history here in Perry County,” Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding said. Redding and about a dozen other agriculture officials, farmers and media watched with curiosity as modern...

Terry Skelton, a beef farmer in Erie County, was curious about adding hemp to his grazing rotation. "I would like to rotational graze the hemp, to see if that would be a way to put fat on my animals – a feasible way to build fat on my animals," he said. There is quite a bit farmers don't...

Four Saints Brewing Co. (FSBC) and Founder's Hemp, both based in Asheboro, have brewed, and registered with N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC), North Carolina's first hemp ale. FSBC's owner, COO and head brewer Andrew Deming developed an English mild ale recipe that incorporated hemp seeds...

It began when 26-year-old Mattie Mead discovered that hemp could be used as a building material his senior year of college. "I looked to natural materials to create more insulating, more efficient, and less energy intensive homes," Mead said. "And through that study Hempcrete stood out to me...

As states across the U.S. begin to relax marijuana regulations, some intrepid designers are exploring the cannabis plant not for the psychoactive effect for which it is best known, but for its material properties. In Israel, for example, the Tav Group, a Tel Aviv—based architecture firm...

Though it's legal to grow industrial hemp in Colorado, many farmers are breaking the law if they try to water their crops. In western states, water rights are governed by complex laws that determine how farmers irrigate their crops. Even rainwater that falls on land owned by a farmer may be...

Over the years super foods have come in and out of fashion, but now one expert is suggesting hemp might be a wonder food of the future. New Zealand chef, Cameron Sims, 24, is running a pop-up restaurant called Plant Culture to educate people on the benefit of hemp, which he says tastes like...

It will be hemp day on Wednesday as the Nevada Department of Agriculture holds two workshops in Sparks to gather public comment on regulation changes. One change would require anyone seeking to amend an application to pay the same $500 fee as required to apply in the first place. A second...

Eli Harrington thinks holding the first-ever Vermont Hemp Festival in the rural, remote Northeast Kingdom makes perfect sense. Harrington and Monica Donovan, co-founders of Heady Vermont, chose to have their inaugural hemp conference in the NEK because the Kingdom has an important history with...

State Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding visited JustBen Agriculture's Mifflin County farm Monday to view progress at one of 16 research projects that seek to demonstrate the economic value and viability of industrial hemp as a marketable crop in Pennsylvania. "Thanks to the federal Farm...

Ever since Julia Roberts named it a muffin top in " Eat, Pray, Love," I've been conscious of mine. So, when I discovered spandex in jeans, wow, was I happy. They were more comfortable and fit better. But, being a person who asks Mother Earth what I should wear, I did some research. I found...

Another Denver-area dispensary has recalled its products because of potentially unsafe pesticide use. Kirke LLC/Metro Denver Telluride Health Center LLC, known to its customers as The Hemp Center, has voluntarily issued a recall on all medical marijuana sold with Optional Premises Cultivation...

Hemp farmers and processors in Murray presented progress and problems in growing the crop to U.S. Senator Rand Paul on Thursday. Paul is in the region as part of a tour discussing healthcare options and made a stop in Murray to talk hemp ahead of visits to other communities. Joseph Kelly...

Rodale Institute, the nation's leading organic farming research institution, has started a new industrial hemp research project focused on examining the crop's role in soil health and regenerative organic agriculture. The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture Industrial Hemp Pilot Project...