Source: CAROLINA JOURNAL, 2/4/20


The clock is ticking on hemp licenses for North Carolina farmers.  N.C. farmers now are licensed under the federal government’s 2014 hemp pilot program. If the state’s 2019 Farm Act doesn’t pass in the next couple months, farmers will have to register for licenses under U.S. Department of Agriculture rules to continue legally growing hemp. But if the N.C. Department of Agriculture submits its own plan, farmers will need a third license.

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