Industrial Hemp

SDMF

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Can farmers plant Ind. Hemp without jumping through a bunch of hoops now?

Will there be any significant amounts grown in ND?

I wonder how deer would react to a stand of Hemp surrounding a food plot?

I bet an awful lot of critters could live in a 3'-6' wide swath of standing hemp along tree-rows, fence rows, creeks, and drainage ditches.
 


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I believe there is a bunch of paper work. Last year, the ag department had NDSU scout hemp fields and collect samples to make sure it was industrial. I believe that will still happen. People are interested in this as a new crop, but growing it does have issues. Such as no registered pesticide use, not much info for fertility, plant density, ect...
Lots of research opportunity!
 

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yup, Still a bunch of hoops with the state but It looks like they are loosening their belt some on licensing cost. From what I can tell $ 100 should get up to 10 acres worth of permits. It was well over $ 250 last year, I sent the Ag dept an email a year ago with questions about their hemp pilot program and I was fishing for an opinion on leaving it stand without harvesting for habitat , They must not have had an answer because they dodged that question. I don't know if it would reseed itself and grow wild or not , Seems like there was a topic on the old site where someone said they ran across a wild stand someplace in MN. I think it would be dandy habitat , Especially if it didn't break down over winter .
 

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