Posted on 05/27/2019 10:21:24 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It allows farmers and other cultivators to grow the leafy, lanky plant and sell its harvest to processors so they can make hemp-based products ranging from foods, beverages and cosmetics to paper, clothing and building materials.
Twenty-four states have hemp farming.
CareerBuilder, Indeed, ZipRecruiter and other mainstream job websites list hemp openings.
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Florida could be a big beneficiary.
It’s about time. No reason to import the by products. Really annoyed me to see twine imported.
Wait until dairy cows switch from alfalfa to hemp.
Hemp is an incredible additive to the formation of cement block. The strength is unbelievable.
I am wondering if the paper industry might start making paper from hemp. Hemp used to be used that way and makes better paper that doesn’t turn brown and brittle with age because there is no acid in it.
Constitution is written on hemp
Give it up. Drug warriors.
The opiates are the war now.
Constitution is written on parchment - treated sheepskin.
The biggest winner could be the composites industry. Imagine building hemp composite materials that are almost as strong as carbon fiber but at a tiny fraction of the environmental cost. That could make much lighter, yet still structural strong, automobiles possible, which could reduce the need for massive batteries in a battery electric car.
Any one ever try adding Egyptian cotton? It was used to make the strongest rope prior to rope made from oil-based products.
The composite industry lobbyists had better up the (bribes) campaign contributions.
If not, stupid, corrupt, and incompetent dc-crats will make sure it goes nowhere.
Apparently hemp was raised in WWII. I never saw any hemp fields, but it is an invasive species and becomes naturalized to some extent. In the late 40s, in Nebraska we rented an 80 catercornered across from us on the same section. It was my job to take some calves over to the creek pasture on that 80. It contained some hemp. No matter how dry the summer or how much the other vegetation was eaten or dried out, there was never any sign of the hemp being chewed on. As far as I could tell, they would not eat it. I suppose you could get them used to it by sneaking some in with their other food.
Hemp is very bitter. Cows learn not to graze on it. It is used as a supplement, especially in the Netherlands, but can never replace traditional forage.
Hemp is also called ditch weed. Has grown on the plains for as long as i can remember.
Hemp is tough like bamboo.
How much per acre of hemp?
Not sure if it’s still there, but years ago there was a shop in Garberville, CA, selling myriad items made from hemp.
Clothing, curtains, candles, ropes, pottery, stationery, greeting cards, food & condiments.
I bought some cargo shorts — the clerk joked the pockets were “big enough to stash a kilo” — and some creamy hemp salad dressing.
The new shorts were stiff & scratchy, and the salad dressing was the nastiest cr*p I’d ever tasted.
Still, capitalism is a good thing. With innovation & entrepreneurship, products can be improved & find a wide market.
During WW II, the Indiana Counties North of Lafayette [Jasper & Newton] had massive hemp fields plus processing plants. During the 1960’s, pot heads would go down and pick the hemp thinking they could smoke it. The Indiana State Police would be waiting for them. The ISP tried many times to burn the Hemp fields, but you can still find traces on the old farms.
How much per acre of hemp?
Haven’t seen that information. Most farmers’ machinery is set up to harvest seeds. Don’t know how the processors want the product delivered.
Nooses are used to punish reason, right?
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