Oct 11 Agriculture Grassroots Growing: Hemp Farmers Form Cooperatives Amid Growth And Uncertainty Tony Silvernail swings a heavy machete at a stalk of bushy hemp and chops the plant near the root, grabbing the five-foot-tall shoot with his sun-weathered hand. It’s an unusually hot October day on his farm, Beyond The Bridge LLC, tucked in the hills outside of Frankfort, Kentucky. But the heat doesn’t faze Silvernail, sporting […] By Liam Niemeyer Oct 11 Agriculture Grassroots Growing: Hemp Farmers Form Cooperatives Amid Growth And Uncertainty Liam Niemeyer
Apr 12 Agriculture CBD Uncertainty: Sales Soar But Science Lags On Hemp Health Effects Inside the Bluegrass Hemp Oil store in Lexington, Kentucky, the CBD oils and lotions lining the walls have an origin story — a story of a family’s struggle. “We took a huge risk, to be perfectly honest, because we didn’t know. We weren’t trying other people’s CBD products that were out there,” Bluegrass Hemp Oil […] By Liam Niemeyer Apr 12 Agriculture CBD Uncertainty: Sales Soar But Science Lags On Hemp Health Effects Liam Niemeyer
Feb 8 Agriculture Hemp’s Heyday: It’s Finally Legal. Now, Can Ohio Valley Farmers Cash In? Inside Winkin’ Sun Hemp Company in downtown Wheeling, West Virginia, store owner Doug Flight tries to position himself in front of a camera crew. His experience with growing and selling hemp spans years. But memorizing lines for what he says could be the first hemp TV commercial in the state is another issue. “I know, […] By Liam Niemeyer Feb 8 Agriculture Hemp’s Heyday: It’s Finally Legal. Now, Can Ohio Valley Farmers Cash In? Liam Niemeyer
Jul 7 Agriculture Why Did Facebook Block Our Reporting On Hemp? Hey, Mark Zuckerberg, can we talk about hemp? No, really, I’m asking: can we? Because a recent experience with Facebook left the impression that reporting on the plant used in products from soap to rope is taboo. Verboten. The leaf that dare not speak its name. This bit of anti-social media behavior came after […] By Jeff Young Jul 7 Agriculture Why Did Facebook Block Our Reporting On Hemp? Jeff Young
Jun 24 Agriculture High Hopes For Hemp Farmers throughout the Ohio Valley want to revive a crop that was once a staple in the region: hemp. After a ban that lasted more than half a century, the 2014 Farm Bill allowed states to grow hemp in research programs. Growers and processors in Kentucky are aggressively putting that research program to work in […] By Nicole Erwin Jun 24 Agriculture High Hopes For Hemp Nicole Erwin