hemp

Hemp farming could be making a comeback in Virginia after being legal for decades. Researchers are growing the plant at Virginia State University, which is one of three universities in the state studying hemp as a possible cash crop for Virginia. Hemp farming has been illegal for the past 70...

Farmers in South Carolina are now able to apply to grow industrial hemp. Thanks to the passing of H.3359 by the South Carolina General Assembly this year, the state's Department of Agriculture will allow up to 20 farmers to grow hemp in 2017. Industrial hemp is grown as an agricultural...

The Colville Confederated Tribes have gone into hemp production. The Tribes planted a 60-acre project on July 9th and plans to research the marketability of hemp seed and fiber products. The Colville's are believed to be one of the first Native American Tribes in the U.S. to cultivate hemp...

Growing Hemp will soon be a reality for nearly two dozen farmers in South Carolina. Governor Henry McMaster signed the industrial hemp cultivation bill in early 2017 and since then, state lawmakers have been meeting with farmers to discuss how they can get involved with growing it. They...

Hemp is a crop that grows like any other, but with more legal boundaries. Purdue's Agriculture personnel have been growing and researching hemp since 2015. They hosted their second Industrial Hemp Field Day on Thursday at Meigs Farm, south of Lafayette. Janna Beckerman, field day organizer...

Kentucky's First District Congressman, James Comer, is making good on a promise to file legislation to reclassify industrial hemp from a controlled substance to an agriculture crop. Comer filed the Industrial Hemp Farming Act Friday. He says it is his attempt keep the Department of Justice...

Friday farmers interested in growing hemp met with the SC Department of Agriculture to learn how to get involved with a pilot program launching August 1. Governor Henry McMaster signed Bill 3559 into law in May, making it legal for industrial hemp to be grown for research purposes in South...

Republican gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie supports industrial hemp, and he's not just blowing smoke. Gillespie, who along with Democratic gubernatorial nominee Ralph Northam participated in an agricultural forum at Virginia Western Community College in Roanoke on Friday, championed...

Off a small service road at Kentland Farm, Virginia Tech graduate student Jabari Byrd is growing cannabis with his professor. Now this plot isn't part of any illicit plan. It's a piece of research at Tech that's leading the state into a new era of studying industrial hemp, and it's fully...

Why make a whiskey with hemp seeds? Why not, is the answer from one Colorado craft distillery owner. "I started to play around with the idea of using hemp," said Bryan Phillips, owner of Coal Creek Distillery in Crested Butte. And with that idea, his problems getting it approved for sale...

Three universities in Virginia are conducting research on industrial hemp after the state legalized cultivation of the crop for research purposes two years ago. The Roanoke Times reports that Virginia Tech, James Madison University and Virginia State University are researching different uses...

More than 80 Vermonters are now registered to grow industrial hemp this year, state officials said. Hemp farming appears to be on the rise three years after legalization, Vermont Public Radio reported. But, there were some difficulties. John Williamson, of State Line Farm in North...

Chairperson of the Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA), Hyacinth Lightbourne, says regulations being developed to guide a legal hemp industry in Jamaica should be in place next year. She made the disclosure during a session on medical marijuana at the Jamaica 55 Diaspora Conference on Tuesday...

Dewmar International BMC Inc. said Thursday that subsidiary U.S. Hemp Corp. is under contract with one of the vendors that has applied to operate Southern University's medical marijuana business and stressed that U.S. Hemp is not a potential vendor. Southern had listed U.S. Hemp as one of the...

Industrial hemp - it has a long history, but has only been in the Grand Valley for a few years. However, it has potential of growing into a multimillion dollar industry. "It's life changing. Every single day, we're finding more and more uses for it. Hemp was so widely used back in the day...

The Hemp Road Trip is creating a feature length documentary to provide education about the versatile yet often misunderstood crop. The Hemp Road Trip is creating a feature length documentary to provide education about the versatile yet often misunderstood crop. While the plant is federally...

State Representative Billy Mitchell, D-Stone Mountain, recently hosted the first meeting of the Cannabis and Hemp Symposium at the State Capitol. The symposium met to discuss the policies, opportunities and challenges of the cannabis and hemp industry within the state of Georgia. "As we make...

More than 80 Vermonters registered with the Agency of Agriculture to grow industrial hemp in 2017, the third growing season since legalization in 2013. And while more than four times the number of people who signed up last year are growing in 2017, experienced growers have had a range of...

The Agriculture Ministry will launch a pilot project to grow hemp, a strain of cannabis, for industrial use after the Justice Ministry this week removed hemp from the list of substances with the legal status of dangerous drugs. This will not be the first time hemp has been officially...

With the goal of supporting economic development in the San Luis Valley (SLV), Adams State University launched its Industrial Hemp Initiative July 25. The Adams State University Industrial Hemp Initiative aims to create an SLV Viable Hemp Seed Program and to develop a large-scale, hemp-based...