Hemp hopes dashed: Drought, market forces work against hemp farmers this year

At first when Wade Fischer was harvesting his industrial hemp, he thought he had a pretty good yield.
It is the third year running for the state’s pilot of the federally regulated crop.
There’s no crop insurance for industrial hemp, and the market is not yet well-defined in North Dakota.
“I am making sure DEA isn’t impeding our ability to do what Congress has given us the right to do,” North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring said.
The prices for Fischer’s crop came out a few weeks before Fischer harvested it.
“I can’t believe the price they came out with,” Fischer said.
It requires drying after harvest, so it doesn’t go moldy and spoil.
That is if, of course, he can get permission to send the crop to a buyer across state lines.
Some don’t want it in their state, and they don’t want it to go across their state line.

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