Source: WEEDMAPS, 3/3/19


The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is giving prospective hemp farmers a status update on the Trump administration's efforts to regulate the newly legal crop. The plans include a public listening session to be held in March 2019. While the 2018 Farm Bill federally legalized hemp, the USDA has to develop a regulatory process and approve individual state plans before farmers can cultivate it under the legislation's provisions.

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