Source: GROWING PRODUCE, 9/23/20


Following decades of prohibition and a life in relative obscurity as a research-only crop in the U.S., the 2018 Farm Bill legalized industrial hemp.   The industry literally went from zero to sixty overnight, transitioning from a handful of R&D acres across parts of Oregon, Colorado, Kentucky, and North Carolina, to upwards of 500,000 acres planted nationwide in 2019.   Then, the bottom literally fell right out from under hemp farmers.

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