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Mindy Ward RULES TO GROW: Missouri farmers can raise hemp this growing season with the same stipulations from 2020. The Missouri Department of Agriculture reports 800 acres were planted this year. Ag Matters: Hemp growers will work under the current rules through 2021. As I’ve written before, I’ve always loved the policymaking responsibility of serving as Missouri’s director of agriculture. As lawmakers write laws as a skeleton framework, it’s usually up to state agencies to fill them in with regulations that further decide how a program will run. Over the ...

Hemp is a hard crop to grow -- just ask Jay Kata. “We were filthy and we were dirty and we were sweaty and it sucked and it was hot and it was miserable,” says Kata, who helps run 4M Farms in southeast Iowa.   So it was all the more heartbreaking when Kata and his colleagues had to burn it all down because it didn’t meet the federal tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) threshold.    “I have a newborn baby, so I spent all summer, instead of playing with her, I was weeding a field,” says Kata. “And after all that, it’s like, that's cool, just going to light that on fire.”

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