Growers hope standards bring order to hemp industry 'mess'
Story Date: 6/17/2019

 

Source: Gilian Flaccus, GREENSBORO NEWS & RECORD, 6/14/19

 
A unit of wheat is called a bushel, and a standard weight of potatoes is called a century. But hemp as a fully legal U.S. agricultural commodity is so new that a unit of hemp seed doesn't yet have a universal name or an agreed-upon quantity. That's one example of the startling lack of uniformity — and accountability — in an industry that's sprung up almost overnight since the U.S. late last year removed hemp from the controlled substances list.

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