AG Week

New processing centers raise hopes for South Dakota hemp, tempered by challenges

WINFRED, S.D. — Ken Meyer’s boots imprint the fine layer of dust settled over the concrete floor as he walks through South Dakota’s first industrial hemp processing facility. It’s loud. Fans whirl and ...
Iowa Public Radio

For decades, the government banned hemp. Now, it’s funding hemp research

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 ...
AOL

This tribe in Kansas is building new products — and houses — with its hemp

Hundreds of huge, round bales lay arranged in neat rows and stacks outside Prairie Band Ag’s processing facility north of Topeka. At just under 6 feet in diameter, they weighed about 1,000 pounds each ...