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Hemp as a Leafy Green?
Wednesday Feb 17th, 2021
News Reporter
With California Ag Today, I’m Tim Hammerich.
You’ve probably heard of a wide variety of uses for hemp, but you may not have heard of this one. Researchers down in Yuma County Arizona are experimenting with hemp as a leafy green, similar to kale or spinach. Robert Masson with the Yuma County Cooperative Extension, says he sees real commercialization potential.
Masson… “We planted it just like how we would plant baby leaf spinach. So we had really high planting densities, 3 million seeds per acre. And that makes it grow up and etiolates it so that there s a lot of tenderness in the leaves. And, you know, we just wanted a similar comparison to spinach. Because we figured it would be something similar where you d plant, sprinkler up, we definitely sprinklered it, and then flood irrigated it to complete. We planted it on big beds, 84 inch beds, just like we do baby leaf spinach.” ....

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