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Wisconsin Farm Bureau president Jim Holte and Kentucky Congressman James Comer team up on a column posted on WisOpinion urging the Wisconsin Legislature to pass bills that will legalize the growing of hemp as a farm product. They write how hemp was once a huge Wisconsin crop, and they believe it...

With hemp's reintroduction into the United States as a part of research pilot programs in 2014, scientists need to learn much about the crop to help farmers improve yields to make it sustainable and economically viable. In a recent article published in the journal Trends in Plant Science...

As the number of coal mining jobs continues to decline in central Appalachia, hemp is getting a lot of attention as one way to diversify eastern Kentucky's post-coal economy. But the region's burgeoning hemp industry is also riddled with uncertainty. The lack of land suitable for growing hemp...

It's not every day a congressman from Kentucky and a farmer from Wisconsin ignite a national conversation on a specific issue. However, when it comes to industrial hemp, no two states are more historically intertwined. We once defined and dominated hemp production in this country, and we are...

While lawmakers in Montpelier argue over marijuana legalization, Middlebury dairy farmers Joel Pomainville and Sam Berthiaume are readying harvest of a cousin of marijuana – hemp – that promoters hope could be a new cash crop for Vermont farmers. "The potential is so huge on this stuff," said...

Southern California's Lawrence Serbin has traveled the world to bring hemp fiber products to Americans. But now that industrial hemp is legal to grow in California, he sees new business opportunities and is eyeing the small Fresno County farming community of Riverdale for a hemp-processing...

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Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo recently announced an open solicitation for farmers, businesses and research institutions interested in growing and processing industrial hemp as part of the state's Industrial Hemp Agricultural Research Pilot Program. Earlier this year, the program was expanded to...

September in North Carolina means tobacco is in the warehouses and the cotton bolls will soon pop open, but one of the newest signs of the season in the state is hemp harvesting. When the shears snip the stalks, there is an unmistakable smell that resembles marijuana, but high hopes are the...

Richard and Linda Jensen are selling their commercial property, once used as a facility for processing tomatoes, to Jerame Rief, who intends to change the property to processing hemp and hemp oil, adding greenhouses and hoop houses for indoor nursery to start plants to be transplanted outdoors...

A Wisconsin congressman is supporting a bill that would allow American farmers to grow industrial hemp. Sixth District congressman Glenn Grothman said he can't imagine any reasons to object to returning hemp as a crop for Wisconsin farmers. "It was something that we used to grow in the...

It's a complicated subject, but today Eric Wang wanted to make sure no question went unanswered. "I call it ground zero for hemp," Wong told WKYT. He's talking about a 500-acre hemp farm housed in Harrison County. A farm that's been years in the making. That's Brian Furnish he's...

Here's some market advice: Now might be a good time to invest in hemp. It wasn't that long ago that the mere mention of hemp – a strain of cannabis which looks like marijuana but lacks the "buzz" – produced giggles. Now it produces policy papers. Both the Democratic and Republican...

Have you been curious about the powerful wellness effects of all-natural CBD oil? The hemp extract has been helping people across the country sleep better, relieve anxiety without prescription pills, and even stave off epileptic seizures. This plant product has become somewhat of a miracle in...

New York is soliciting applications from farmers, businesses and research institutions interested in growing and processing industrial hemp. It is part of the state's Industrial Hemp Agricultural Research Pilot Program. Earlier this year, the program was expanded to include private entities...

Some South Dakota farmers are watching closely as North Dakota brings in its second industrial hemp crop. It's a pilot program that South Dakota lawmakers have eyed in the past. There was even a bill to create a hemp pilot program that stalled in the statehouse last year. When the Ag...

Dr. Randy Nordyke is the chairman and co-founder of InSpirit LLC. Inspirit produces two non-psychoactive РTHC-free, 100 percent legal, over-the-counter pain relief cr̬mes made from organic hemp oil: Inspirit Hemp Cr̬me and Inmotion Hemp Pain Cr̬me. Over his life, Nordyke underwent 17...

A plumber and equine scientist are combining forces to create a new chicken food made entirely out of cannabis. And the chooks are gobbling it up. Six month ago, after a friend told them about its health properties, Joel McCarthy and fiancé Ely Meggitt started experimenting with hemp...

Hemp, Inc., a global leader in the industrial hemp industry with the largest hemp mill in the western hemisphere, today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Hemp University, LLC's 4th educational symposium, "The Art & Science of CBD Oil," to be held on Saturday, September 30, 2017 from...

Kona Gold Solutions, Inc., a hemp lifestyle brand of exclusivity and status, has announced they have ramped up production on its popular hemp infused energy drinks in order to meet customer demand. The Company will be producing another 1,000 cases of it hemp energy drinks to meet current demand...