Kentucky Hemp Farmers Form Cooperative to Navigate Industry’s Growing Pains
Oct 16, 2019
The Farm Bill of 2018 legalized the industrial cultivation of hemp, and it was followed by a rush into the budding industry by players looking to exploit the market. Farmers in the Ohio Valley weren’t left behind, and they finally get to harvest the thousands of acres of hemp crop they planted this year.
Tony Silverman is one such farmer. He runs his farm, Beyond the Bridge LLC, with his business partner Shawn Lucas, a professor at the Kentucky State University. Silverman has been an organic farmer since the 90s, and he says farming hemp was radically different from what he’d been doing. Referring to the relatively new state of the industry, he says it was hard to find…
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