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Senate Agriculture Committee to Address Industrial Hemp Production

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Members of the US Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry will hear expert testimony next week regarding the production of industrial hemp and hemp-derived products. In December, Congress enacted legislation removing industrial hemp (defined as cannabis containing less than 0.3

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Agriculture Secretary Nominee Tom Vilsack: Climate Reformer or Saboteur?

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Agriculture is one of the biggest contributors to the climate crisis, and it must be a key part of the solution.

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Video – US Hemp Roundtable: House Agriculture Leaders Urge Congress To Regulate CBD In Upcoming Farm Bill

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Testimonies During The House Agriculture Subcommittee On Biotechnology, Horticulture, And Research Addressed FDA Inaction on CBD and Intoxicating Hemp Derivatives. Testimonies by Wang and Quarles urged committee members to incorporate language into the 2023 Farm Bill that would regulate CBD and other hemp-derived compounds.

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Unpacking the CBD hype – here’s what science says about its real health benefits

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federal legislation – the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, also known as the 2018 Farm Bill – has ushered in an explosion of interest in the medical potential of cannabis-derived cannabidiol, or CBD. Over the last five years, an often forgotten piece of U.S. After decades of debate, the bill. Read More

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Montana Department of Agriculture taking applications for hemp growing season

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MISSOULA, Mont. — The Montana Department of Agriculture is taking applications for the upcoming hemp growing season. Grain and fiber filled most of the land followed by CBD. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for its state hemp production plan which took effect January 1, 2022. Department of Agriculture.

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Jamaica: Organic Growth Holdings (OGH) Hemp Farm Fails … Land Goes Back To Standard Agricultural Products

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It has been replaced by a new entity that is now planting agricultural crops on the 630-acre property. While OGH did send off one shipment of CBD oil (cannibidoil) in December 2020, with a promise to ship more, the plan did not materialise as reports surfaced thereafter that the soil type in the area is unsuitable for the growing of hemp.

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TN Agriculture officials want to curb CBD and THCA smokables, offer cryptic response to questions

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But the Tennessee Department of Agriculture’s new rules submitted in December go further and attempt to curb the selling of hemp-derived cannabinoid products like THCA and. Tennessee lawmakers passed legislation to begin regulating hemp-derived cannabinoid products last year, banning the selling of them to those under the age of 21.