Source: WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL, 10/23/19


North Carolina’s farmers have been asked to overcome a wide range of challenges in recent years: declining commodity prices, tariffs, hurricanes, floods and droughts. When federal lawmakers legalized hemp in the 2018 U.S. Farm Bill, the new cash crop gave us hope for the future of farming nationally and here in North Carolina. Hemp cultivation has already produced positive financial returns for our state’s farmers, and this is only the beginning. The acceptance of hemp and hemp-derived products by our legislators and law...

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