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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 ...

Cox/Henderson announce 19 more cabinet/staff members (Part 2) Created: 22 December 2020 Governor-elect Cox and Lt. Governor-elect Henderson announced 19 additional key cabinet and staff positions that will join the new administration. The appointees represent a range of diversity and bring both private and public sector experience to their new (and in some cases, continuing) roles. The first six were listed previously.. Here are the next six. St. George Mayor Jon Pike has been named Commissioner of the Utah Insurance Department.  He currently works as the southwest Utah oper...

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.”