Albert Etheridge News Today

ALBANY — Sedrick Rowe broke ground this year in a billion-dollar industry: hemp. He became one of the first black, south Georgia farmers licensed to grow the crop in the Peach State. And his history-making harvest succeeded during the global pandemic, too. Recently, his success story has piqued the interest of new producers wanting to enter the hemp force. So he decided to teach — initially in his hometown of Albany — the ins and outs to starting and sustaining a hemp operation. ...

ALBANY — Pretoria Fields Collective, a farmhouse brewery and CBD therapeutic manufacturer, announced Monday the completion of the collective’s hemp crop harvest in Georgia, which coincides with the company’s third anniversary. The celebration marks the first time hemp has been commercially harvested in Georgia in the modern era. “Hemp has had a monumental influence historically in America, dating back to one of the earliest commercial crops in the new world,” Albert Eth...