KDRV
An Eagle Point area farmer is the first person in the state to be
licensed to grow industrial hemp. It’s the first time the crop has been
grown in Oregon in 70 years. The seeds will have to be imported into
Oregon from another country in order for operations to begin.
State regulators issued the license to Edgar Winters, a long-time
industrial hemp advocate and the COO of Natural Good Medicines, located
in Ruch, Ore. Winters is also the Director of Cannabis Research at
Winterfox Farms.
25 acres is already tilled and ready for industrial hemp growing to begin in Rush.
http://www.kdrv.com/local-farmer-grows-hemp-business/
Capital Press
A man who was issued the first state permit to grow industrial hemp
said he and a nonprofit group of growers and activists hope to plant a
25-acre field in Southwest Oregon this spring.
Edgar Winters, of
Eagle Point, Ore., who describes himself as director of the Oregon
Agriculture Food & Rural Consortium, acknowledged there are problems
obtaining seeds for planting and other complications, but said he is
optimistic. Winters also said warehousing and processing facilities will
be ready to go when a crop is harvested in late summer.
http://www.capitalpress.com/Oregon/20150209/states-first-industrial-hemp-license-goes-to-a-southern-oregon-man
