North Carolina farmers are turning over a new leaf in the hemp industry
Story Date: 10/16/2017

 

Source: MY FOX 8, 10/12/17

North Carolina farmers are turning over a new leaf, you might say. “I didn’t think I’d be farming hemp two years ago,” says Waylon Saunders, with a chuckle. Saunders farmed all the traditional stuff on his land south of Asheboro … corn, soybeans. “It’s pretty much trial and error growing hemp,” Saunders says, because there’s no one around whose grown it, after it was banned by the federal government in 1937. 

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