Source: Chuck Abbott, SUCCESSFUL FARMING, 2/27/20


The government will allow farmers to destroy “hot” hemp fields themselves, rather than having to hire a contractor to do it, and it will expand the number of laboratories that can test industrial hemp for THC levels, said Agriculture Undersecretary Greg Ibach on Wednesday. Ibach told state agriculture officials that new guidelines would be released “hopefully tomorrow” on the two issues, which are sore points in the USDA’s rules for hemp cultivation nationwide. 

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