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A lumpy skin disease outbreak making its way from Indonesia to Australia could cost our cattle industry more than $7 billion a year, but new data shows there's reason to be "alert but not alarmed".

A bill to allow Connecticut hemp farmers to grow THC-laden cannabis is not likely to pass, legislators said.

Connecticut's cannabis dispensaries have opened their doors for recreational, adult-use. Here is everything you will want to know before you pick up a pack of edibles or try a new marijuana strain.

Farmers say they're already struggling with low hemp prices and fear losing out to bigger companies when licenses to grow cannabis become available.

Farmers say they're already struggling with low hemp prices and fear losing out to bigger companies when licenses to grow cannabis become available.

Connecticut hemp farmers looking for higher incomes are working to change the recreational marijuana law to give them better odds — or even assurances — at becoming licensed growers.

Connecticuts three-year-old hemp industry is suffering. Farmers see legal weed as a way to be profitable again but feel "left out" of the process.

Connecticuts three-year-old hemp industry is suffering. Farmers see legal weed as a way to be profitable again but feel "left out" of the process.

A Saline County man on trial for cocaine trafficking was found guilty Tuesday by a jury of seven men and five women after the conclusion of a two-day trial in federal court in Little Rock.

The way Brant Smith sees it, his 70,000-square-foot greenhouse hemp operation in Cheshire is at least the fourth best cannabis growing facility in the state. “I believe that I have the best facility in the state to grow recreational marijuana right now, besides potentially the medical marijuana people,” said Smith, owner of Hydroclonix LLC and its two subsidiaries, Hemp House Farms and Foxboro Farms CBD.