Agriculture producers and others are invited to tour field plots in northern Nevada where the University of Nevada, Reno and its partners are researching drought-tolerant and high-demand crops. Three ...

On a bright, chilly day in mid-October, Lincoln University graduate student Joshua Asiamah loads tall, dried, brown stalks onto a John Deere all-terrain vehicle. Asiamah moved from Ghana to the United ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Hemp was legalized two years ago and West Texas researchers have learned hemp grows well in the south plains, saying it could be as profitable as cotton. Although the industry ...

George Washington himself championed the crop, producing over 1,300 yards of hemp and flax fabric annually at Mount Vernon by 1767. Despite its importance, hemp production often lagged behind demand ...

Images of industrial hemp in its first year were taken to understand the crop in terms of fiber and grain production. The first image is a truecolor or RGB image of the plots, while the other three ...

Since 2019, the commercial production of hemp has been a legal reality. In 2018, with the introduction of the Farm Bill, various policies related to it as an industrial and food crop were enacted, ...

A new report from New Frontier Data delves into the average number of plants that are considered to be “hot” and what the industry could look like in the near future. New Frontier Data released new ...

Climate change got personal for my family in 2013, when a refugee bear fleeing a nearby wildfire scaled my goat-corral fence and killed most of the herd in front of our eyes. Milk providers, yoga ...

A hemp producer based in Dayton, Ohio has a new customer for its crop after the firm signed a deal with a processor in nearby Michigan to provide raw material for hemp-based bioplastics. Under its new ...

The value of the U.S. industrial hemp crop in 2021 was $824 million, USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service said in its first report on the crop that was legalized nationally in the 2018 farm ...

DESOTO, Kansas (KCTV) — As the hemp industry starts to take off in the Midwest, stakeholders in the industry are researching commercial uses for the crop. Shelli Hornberger, the COO of America’s Hemp ...

Lincoln University in Missouri is heading a USDA-funded project researching the commodity, but its prohibition created high hurdles for getting the crop off the ground. On a bright chilly day in ...