Source: Lisa Michals, YADKIN RIPPLE, 8/9/21

 In the Yadkin Valley, winemakers will often say they guard against their wine getting “hot” — in other words, the alcohol content slipping too high. It’s the same goal in the valley’s burgeoning hemp industry, but with perhaps even more serious consequences. Hemp is increasingly being grown in the Yadkin Valley and throughout North Carolina for both fiber and CBD oil applications, but if the level of THC in crop slips above a legal level, the entire crop must be destroyed.

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