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Posted by Kelly C on February 22, 2006 at 21:09:21 from (65.165.20.97):
In Reply to: OT: Industrial Hemp Production. posted by Kelly C on February 22, 2006 at 08:17:16:
Looks like I still need to wait and learn some more before I decide to support this type of thing or not. No I am not looking for a alternate crop. I have my hands full just with real grass. I was watching a program on TV this morning. They were showing the Ag potential for hemp. I honestly only heard of 2 uses for hemp in my whole life. I knew they made rope out of it and hippies smoked it. Thats the exstent of my knowledge of hemp. This program was talking up hemp like it is the savior of the American Farmer. They were talking about making houses, Boxes, clothing and Henery Ford made a car out of it. Bla bla bla. But they made 2 statements that peaked my interest. 1st they stated that adding a hemp crop to a crop rotation reduced the need for herbacides and pestacides. In my book thats a good thing. We spray way to much stuff on our land. 2nd part that I found of interest. They stated that if Hemp was a major crop with developed markets. You cant ship hemp all over the place. To much mass, so the mills would be located near the crop sources. IE in the rural comunities. Thus keeping more of the money near the producers. I also see that as a possitive. So 3 things are going to keep my mind open on this subject. Less oil from Arabia, Better care of our land and jobs in rural comunities.
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