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Hefty Hemp Seed Donation For Texas Farmers – HempGazette
Texas’s Panda Biotech has announced it is donating more than 60 tons of approved hemp seed for fiber crops to Texas agricultural producers. That’s a lot of seed – there’s around 27,000 hemp seeds per pound, so 60 tons would work out to 3,240,000,000 seeds. There doesn’t seem to be any nasty gotchas associated with …
Commissioner Miller Issues First Hemp License in Texas | texasinsider – Texas Insider
Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller “I am happy that I can be the one to deliver it. I know Texas farmers have been eagerly waiting for a chance at these hemp licenses and now the wait is over.” Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller announced the first Texas industrial hemp license …
Texas Hemp Under the TDA and DSHS | Texas Lawyer – Texas Lawyer
Cameron Field is co-leader of the cannabis practice at the law firm Michael Best. Texas is on the brink of producing hemp for the first time since the middle of the 20th century. On March 16, after about one year of regulatory and legislative tinkering, the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) released applications to the …
Coats Rose Taps Texas Hemp Pro To Co-Lead Cannabis Group – Law360
Law360 (March 16, 2020, 2:10 PM EDT) — Coats Rose has tapped hemp and marijuana compliance expert Lisa Pittman to co-chair its cannabis law practice group in Austin, Texas, as the firm angles to capitalize on the burgeoning industrial hemp market in the Lone Star State. Pittman played a key role in developing state regulations …
Texas Hemp Law Creates Haze Of Confusion: ‘It Changed The Definition Of Marijuana’ – CBS Dallas / Fort Worth
Watch Andrea Lucia’s story on CBS 11 at 10 p.m. It will be added here after it airs. NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Misdemeanor marijuana possession is the most common crime Tarrant County courts handled last year. The number of cases, though, is plummeting locally and across the state. The tumble started in June 2019 with …
Hemp farming a growing opportunity for Texas – Times Record News
CLOSEBuy Photo Pine Valley Farms, associate, Chris Ross, left, and company owners David and Emily Lee talk with potential customers at their hemp seed booth during the annual Ranch and Farm show held at the J.S Bridwell Ag Center, Wednesday afternoon. (Photo: CHRISTOPHER WALKER/TIMES RECORD NEWS) For the first time, the annual Ranch and Farm Expo …
Bexar County may be the first in Texas to finalize new marijuana vs. hemp testing – San Antonio Express-News
Bexar County’s crime lab may soon become the first in Texas accredited to test the difference between hemp and marijuana — months after a new state law legalizing hemp inadvertently made it difficult to press charges in some marijuana cases. The Bexar County Criminal Investigation Laboratory, which conducts forensic testing for many local law enforcement …
Marijuana or hemp? New tech can help Texas law enforcement tell the difference – KRGV
SAN JUAN – With Texas law enforcement agencies having a hard time distinguishing the difference between marijuana and hemp, new technology is promising to help. In June 2019, the law changed to allow the production and sale of hemp products in the state, but it’s still a big change to get used to. Especially during …
When Texas can grow hemp crop – KETK | FOX51 | EastTexasMatters.com
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USDA Approves Texas Hemp Plan – KFI AM 640
It’s been a distance race, but Texas has cleared another hurdle to put the Lone Star State at the top of hemp growing states in the nation. The last legislative session produced a bill to produce a production plan, which was accomplished and submitted to the USDA for approval. That came late last month, and …