I certainly welcome a new crop to add into the mix, but the claims being made and the excitement of it all is a bit bemusing.
The oil appears to be labor intensive enough and has a bit of a building fan base and market to be a worthwhile crop, but I’m pretty sure it will be licensed and regulated to where only the big compamies in charge make real money, farmers will be kept down the food chain, or income stream.... but looks like a venture worth looking into and sounds like the old tobacco areas are best suited for it.
Hemp fiber seems like a pipe dream, it was a good product with valuable properties 80 years ago, but the synthetics from rayon to nylon to fiberglass to Kevlar and everything in between has taken over those demanding uses and are far better: cotton and wood pulp are the low cost entrenched natural fibers, and we overproduce those at near breakeven cost. There is no room for another fiber product that will cost more and not offer any real benefit for mundane uses. I would be very very careful getting into fiber production, it has disaster written all over it. The potheads love promoting paper and tie dye tee shirts made from it but it’s hard to sustain a whole fiber industry on the whims of the druggies.....
I remember artichokes, emus, and so on, will save the family farm..... yea right.......
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