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ional, Gary Triple of Green Mountain Technologies and iHemp grower Colby Johnson. Foley shared with the group information regarding the Montana Hemp Pilot B Y LY N D S AY B R U N O C O M M U N I C AT I O N S D I R E C T O R / Program. In 2018, there were E D I TO R 58 licensed growers which In December Montana Farmers amounted to approximately IN THIS Union and theEDITION: Montana Depart- 22,000 acres of crop. ment of Agriculture (MDOA) hosted an event on Industrial The Hemp program and Hemp. The seminar is a continu- changes in the Farm Bill ation of a series of workshops A provision within the Farm MFU has held throughout the Bill calls for iHemp to be restate in the past year on Indus- moved as a schedule 1 drug trial Hemp. December’s seminar which according to Cort Jencovered virtually every aspect of son, Chief Attorney for the Industrial Hemp ranging from the MDOA, will preclude it from crop’s history and uses to market DEA regulation, but Hemp potential and processing. Among will continue to be monitored other presenters were Ian Foley by the FDA.“Theoretically it and Cort Jensen with MDOA, ar- will allow for U.S. sources of chitect Kirby Hancock, Jeff Kos- hemp and U.S. distributions tuik of Hemp Genetics Internat- points even if the hemp originated in Canada,” said Jensen. He went on to talk about the approach MDOA had taken as a fully compliant DEA state.“What the current director and previous director said was they don’t want any farmers to lose their farm, to lose their tractors so we made certain to be 100 percent compl-
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2,000 square foot house will take about six tons of processed hemp Uses for Industrial Hemp hurd.“You can get about two tons The seminar also covered the of stock per acre on average,” uses and products of Industrial said Hancock. “But you can get Hemp including hempcrete which as much as five tons per acre. To is generated from the wood stock, facilitate a processing plant we otherwise known as hurd of the need about ten to fifteen thouplant. Kirby Hancock of Trans- sand acres to make it viable.” formative Technologies, is focused on the building applications of Industrial Hemp. According to Hancock in the next five years a C O N T I N U E D O N PA G E 1 0
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