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
WTVC NewsChannel 9
With a decades-long ban on hemp production in
Tennessee finally lifted, some farmers say they want to grow the crop
but aren't used to the government oversight that comes with it.
The
Tenn. Agriculture Department held a hearing Tuesday about proposed
rules it hopes to finalize before spring planting. A hemp license would
run $250 a year plus $2 per acre. Inspectors would be allowed in the
field at any time to check levels of THC, which is the only real
difference between hemp and its look-a-like cousin, marijuana. The
farmer would even have to foot the bill at $35 an hour, including travel
time.
But Harold Jarboe, who plans to grow hemp in Maury County,
says he doesn’t mind rules like notifying authorities two days ahead of
transporting a crop.
http://www.newschannel9.com/news/top-stories/stories/tennessee-farmers-ready-grow-hemp-13833.shtml
Nashville Public Radio
Some farmers are chafing at Tennessee’s tight regulation of hemp, sounding off at a hearing on the rules held by the Agriculture Department Tuesday.
The legislature dropped a decades-long ban on hemp production this
year in an effort to revive an old Tennessee cash crop, but lawmakers
left the finer details to the department, which hopes to finalize the
rules in time for the first crops to go in the ground this spring.
While farmers like Linda Albright of Williamson County cheered when
the state opened up hemp production, they aren’t used to this kind of
oversight.
“We’ve been growing tobacco and corn and soy and all of this for
years and years,” she said. “We’ve never had to apply for a license to
grow it.”
http://nashvillepublicradio.org/blog/2014/11/18/hemp-farmers-swallow-rules-hoping-revive-old-tennessee-cash-crop/
