Our Opinion: Hemp pilot program an early success for Tar Heel agriculture
Story Date: 9/21/2017

 

Source: WILSON TIMES, 9/19/17


North Carolina marked a historic harvest this month as more than 50 volunteers converged on a farm outside Dunn to haul in a bumper crop of hemp on Sept. 9. It’s the first hemp harvest in the Tar Heel State for at least 80 years, according to Hemp, Inc., a pioneering manufacturer that built a 70,000-foot processing plant — the largest-such facility devoted to hemp in North America — just up the road in Spring Hope.

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