Paul, just cause I'm curious. Why would hemp fiber be a pipe dream? Things like those dumb birds? Yea you have to create demand. Hemp clothing was around for centuries. Just needs to be reintroduced.
From just a little research you'll find that many people try to avoid rayon and nylon products. I did not bother to look at the reasons. But synthetic material has to be made of something and many people have lost faith in the chemical companies. They use crude oil to make rayon/nylon. Lot of folks have pushed to stop using crude oil for stuff like that.
So they know how to make hemp clothing. They were doing that a century ago. They know how to make it into paper. And unlike trees doesn't take 15 or 20 years to grow another crop. Plus people have been looking for natural fiber clothing for decades. Cotton and wool are both good sellers.
As far as chasing prices with dumb birds or hemp, what are the corn/beans guys doing today? That hasn't been going so great the last few years. Seems that started with the chemical companies promising farmers yields like they had never seen before. Someone just forgot to mention what happens when you flood the market with more than can be used.
But the question is, what? Are farmers supposed to live in poverty and not try other things? Or should they experiment and see if they can't make a little money. More than one farm has gone under farming conventional crops in the last few years.
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