Representative image The agency’s final rule includes provisions on compliance, procedures for handling violations, and testing of THC levels. The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently published a new final rule to regulate domestic hemp production that builds upon the agency’s interim final rule (IFR) created in October 2019. “With the publication of this final rule, USDA brings to a close a full and transparent rule-making process that started with a hemp listening session in March 2019,” USDA Marketing and Regulatory Programs Under Secretary Greg Ibach said in a release. “USDA staff have taken the information you have provided through three comment periods and from your experiences over a growing season to develop regulations that meet Congressional intent while providing a fair, consistent, science-based program for states, tribes, and individual producers.”