Source: Drew C. Wilson, WILSON TIMES, 2/26/19


If attendance is an indicator, interest among growers in the new hemp commodity is high. About 150 farmers and other interested people from Wilson, Nash and Edgecombe counties filled the East Carolina Ag and Education Center in Rocky Mount for a regional hemp production meeting Tuesday. “We have certainly got a new commodity for our area and there is a lot of interest and a lot of unknowns in this commodity,” said Norman Harrell, director of the N.C. Cooperative Extension office in Wilson County.

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