Farmers in the U.S. have grown cannabis since the 1600s — but policymakers are still figuring out how to regulate two famous ...

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, ...

North Carolina is officially in the industrial hemp business, at least the business of developing the best ways to grow it. The N.C. State Extension Service just planted some of the crop at its ...

New research carried out over three years in Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc vineyard by grape grower Kirsty Harkness and viticulture researcher Dr. Mark Krasnow has found that hemp is a viable cover crop ...

Thomas Garrison, a multi-generation farmer in Anderson County, said he believed the hype around hemp. Garrison, who’s farmed in Pendelton since graduating from Clemson in 1980, was among the group who ...

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 ...

PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) — Three years into the nation’s hemp experiment, a 20-acre farm in southern Colorado exemplifies the crop’s hazy potential. Hemp could be enormously profitable, but right now there ...

LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — Hemp could once again grow proudly in Lancaster County’s fertile fields, if federal legislation legalizing the crop — which was outlawed in 1937 because of its similarity to ...

WASHINGTON (Nexstar) — Virginia is joining other states as part of a pilot program to develop for hemp crops. Last year, Congress approved the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, which legalized and ...

The Colville Indian Reservation includes fruit orchards, wheat, barley and alfalfa, as well as some specialty crops. In 2018 the tribe — whose land is bounded by the state of Washington — decided to ...

Initiative 502 not only legalized marijuana possession – it opened the door for the industrial production of hemp. It could be a new cash crop for Washington farmers but not a lot is known about the ...