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A USDA official said earlier this week that the U.S. hemp industry could have a producer-funded checkoff program coming soon.  The Agricultural Marketing Service’s Director of the Specialty Crops Programs’ Promotion and Economics Division spoke at the Hemp Industries Association’s annual conference. Hemp Industry Daily n...

The hype over hemp sparked a rush of enthusiasm from farmers looking to add it to their crop rotations after it was legalized in the 2018 Farm Bill.  Stuck in a declining farm economy, Politico said hemp offers a new source of income for farmers who’ve been hit from all sides by a trade war with China, a stretched-out cycle of low commodity prices, as well as a series of natural disasters.   T...

On Wednesday, the Washington Legislature gave the final approval, permitting large-scale industrial hemp production.  Senate Bill 5276 creates an agricultural commodity program under the Washington state Department of Agriculture to regulate the production of hemp.  Fe...