The fourth annual NoCo Hemp Expo this past weekend featured more than 130 vendors and 60 speakers, all sharing information about this amazing plant.
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The plant is almost magical, advocates say, with a range of applications from paper to medicine. So why is it illegal to grow?
Both the federal government and various state governments have taken major steps forward in restarting an industry that has been in hibernation for almost a century.
A goal of the Texas Hemp Industries Association, besides educating people on industrial hemp, is to encourage Texans to vote for the legalization of hemp farming in Texas.
A goal of the Texas Hemp Industries Association, besides educating people on industrial hemp, is to encourage Texans to vote for the legalization of hemp farming in Texas.
With a long list of uses and applications, industrial hemp holds tremendous profit potential for Kentucky farmers.
The United States Department of Agriculture needs to get more involved in creating solutions to the governmental problems of turning industrial hemp into a viable crop.
Kentucky's Agriculture Commissioner is asking the federal government to reconsider its latest set of rules regarding industrial hemp.
Kentucky's Agriculture Commissioner is asking the federal government to reconsider its latest set of rules regarding industrial hemp.
Despite its eco-friendly nature, hemp is still not allowed for widespread cultivation in the US; rather only small-scale pilots are allowed in a few states around the country.
Although hemp is illegal at a federal level, 13 states have jumped on board the hemp train, and for good reason.
In Kentucky, the University of Louisville's Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research has started growing industrial hemp in an effort to spur its fuels and manufacturing research.
Kentucky is experimenting with industrial hemp – as dozens of farmers grow test plots covering 45-hundred acres.
Kentucky is experimenting with industrial hemp – as dozens of farmers grow test plots covering 45-hundred acres.
One acre of hemp can reportedly yield up to 5,300 pounds of straw, which can be turned into 1,300 pounds of wood fiber.
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - Marijuana is growing in Mesa County, but it won't get you high. "We were saving the ranch. It wasn't selling and we had to come up with a way to cover expenses," said Margaret Richardson, a co-owner at Salt Creek Hemp Company.
Hemp could disrupt the myriad industries that produce and use plastics. You can make a car out of hemp. Imagine a hemp car with an engine running on clean-burning biofuel.
Farmers throughout the Ohio Valley want to revive a crop that was once a staple in the region: hemp.
