Hemp

After the 2018 Farm Bill legalized hemp, THC products made from the plant have grown into a multi-billion-dollar industry. Now, more state and federal lawmakers are working to limit or ban the products.

Fewer farmers are planting hemp across the Midwest and Great Plains. The decline is most acute in hemp grown for its oils, like CBD, but experts say there’s greater opportunity in industrial hemp.

Farmers across the state are harvesting their first hemp crop, after the plant was legalized for agriculture in 2018.Officials with IHemp Michigan, an…

Michigan agriculture officials will soon start testing hemp being grown in the state.Michigan growers will start harvesting the state’s first industrial…