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You can learn how to grow hemp in Iowa and get a degree in it – KWQC-TV6
MUSCATINE, Iowa (KWQC) — From CBD oils to food and building materials. Those are just some of the potential uses of hemp. Starting this fall, students at Eastern Iowa Community College in Muscatine can get a degree in growing the crop. Shane Mairet is the mastermind behind the Industrial Hemp Program. Mairet comes from a …

Robert Miller: Finding a market for Connecticut-grown hemp – CT Insider
There are two buildings, still standing, in New Milford — one put up by J.S. Halbine, the other by Carl Schoverling — that for about 50 years were warehouses for the shade tobacco industry in the Housatonic Valley. “Farmers would grow tobacco, dry it, then bring it to market, where they’d sell it and get …

Getting Into The Hemp Industry: Advice From A Farmer – Utah Public Radio
Over the past few years, hemp has become an up-and-coming commodity in agriculture. Here in Utah, farmers are just starting to grow industrialized hemp. Industrial hemp is a cannabis plant with below .3% THC. Anything above this .3% threshold is considered to be a marijuana plant and would be destroyed. At the 2019 Utah Farm …

Colorado farmers can now apply online to grow hemp – KOAA.com Colorado Springs and Pueblo News
BROOMFIELD (AP) — Farmers can now apply online to grow industrial hemp in Colorado. Brian Koontz, the Colorado Department of Agriculture’s Hemp Program Manager, said Thursday the state already leads the country in registered land area for industrial hemp cultivation, and the new application process “will help us continue to stand as a leader in …