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The greater Lehigh Valley scored a handful of the first 16 industrial hemp research projects approved by the state Department of Agriculture. Lehigh University researchers and the Berks County-based Pennsylvania Hemp Industry Council will partner on three different projects, and the Rodale...

HARRISBURG – This year Kentucky farmers will grow and potentially sell more than 12,000 acres of industrial hemp, according to that state's Department of Agriculture. Hemp farmers get as much as $21,000 per acre, meaning the Kentucky program could generate crops worth upwards of $252 million...

Taranto, Italy -- Farmers in a region of Italy once known for cheeses have turned to cultivating a type of cannabis -- not to smoke or sell -- but to decontaminate polluted soil. The hemp they're growing contains very little THC -- the compound that makes people high. Vincenzo Fornaro...

There's a growing interest in industrial hemp production across Kentucky, drawing considerable crowd sizes to recent seminars in Christian, Clark and Shelby counties, Ryan Bowman reports The Farmer's Pride. Tom Keene, an agronomy specialist who focuses on hemp and forages for the University...

Without a word of explanation, Gov. Susana Martinez on Wednesday vetoed a proposed research program intended to clear the way for an industrial hemp industry in New Mexico, a key plank in the economic plan announced by Democrats in the Legislature at the outset of the 2017 session. Republican...

Western Australia's first hemp home has been completed in Margaret River, as its builder revealed he has another three hemp building projects underway in the South-West. Gary Rogers finished the state's revolutionary hemp house in early March after almost eight months construction, using...

Colorado livestock could be eating hemp under a bill that awaits the governor's signature. The state House voted 63-0 Friday to direct the Colorado Department of Agriculture to study the feasibility of allowing farmers to use hemp in animal feed. Currently the practice is forbidden. Hemp...

West Virginia is looking for its next niche crop. The West Virginia Hemp Industries Association (WVHIA) believes this niche crop is industrial hemp. The WVHIA has launched a Go Fund Me campaign to support industrial hemp as the stateâ€s new niche crop, said J. Morgan Leach, of Vienna...

The field where corn grew last year could be covered this summer in plants that look a lot like marijuana. North Carolina is calling for farmers to grow industrial hemp as part of a statewide test. The plant, a nonintoxicating cousin of marijuana, can be used to produce many products such as...

Will fields of hemp find a place among Alaska's agricultural crops? At least one Alaska lawmaker hopes so. In January, Palmer Republican Shelley Hughes introduced a bill – Senate Bill 6 – that would allow for the creation of an Alaska hemp industry fully separate from commercial marijuana...

In a congressional environment where industrial hemp has prominent supporters on both sides of the aisle, U.S. Rep. James Comer, R-Tompkinsville, aims to present a bill during the current legislative session calling for national legalization of the crop. Comer spokesman Michael Gossum said...

A Republican state senator from Lake Havasu City sees economic opportunity in industrial hemp and wants to bring Arizona into the fold. Sen. Sonny Borrelli has sponsored a bill to establish the framework for an industrial hemp industry in Arizona. If passed, SB 1337 would legalize the...

It won't get you high, but cannabidiol, a compound found in marijuana, is tripping up Alaska's cannabis industry. Cannabidiol – commonly referred to as CBD – is a chemical compound often used in pain management. CBD is non-intoxicating, unlike its psychoactive counterpart THC, and it has...

Hemp, reports The Oklahoman's Brianna Bailey, is marijuana's nonintoxicating cousin, and supporters of a bill say allowing production of the fibrous plant would stoke the Oklahoma economy. A bill at the Oklahoma Legislature this session authored by Sen. Anastasia Pittman, D-Oklahoma City, would...

A coalition of Westmoreland County farmers, academics and industry officials in April will start growing hemp on a contaminated site in South Huntingdon Township. The group on Thursday received conditional approval for one of 15 industrial hemp research certificates from the state Department...

A state senator from Chicago Heights recently filed a bill that I think is long overdue. It would allow Illinois farmers to cultivate industrial hemp, but only as part of research projects approved by the state. It's a start. At least a dozen other states have begun the process of...

The Kentucky Senate voted Tuesday to make modifications to the state's growing industrial hemp research program. State Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles said the aim is to better align Kentucky's hemp effort with federal research exemptions. Quarles said that could put Kentucky growers...

DUPLIN COUNTY, NC - The rich agriculture in North Carolina has seen major changes in the past few years, and now some farmers will be given the opportunity to grow a crop used in a variety of products but had been previously banned. In the 1800s and early 1900s, farmers across America...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - A bill legalizing the production and sale of industrial hemp was tabled by the Senate Agricultural and Natural Resources Committee in Pierre yesterday. After an hour-and-a-half of debate, a motion to send the bill to the Senate floor failed but the committee then decided to...

BISMARCK, N.D. - The Senate approved a bill today to help reduce the cost to the state to expand the state's industrial hemp production Sen. Jerry Klein,​ says five producers produced 70 acres of the crop last year making North Dakota the fifth largest grower in the country. This year, the...