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Hemp in Virginia

Well... I am a consultant for it if anyone is interested. I just spent the last 3 years getting an agronomy degree at VT, after this site got me into peppers and interested in larger scale ag.
My partner ran the state trials and got his masters in industrial hemp production.
 

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I'm in SC, but just curious what the return on what 1 acre harvest would be?
 
Also how similar is hemp to cannabis? Hoping for it to be legal in the next decade or so, wouldn't mind practicing with hemp.
 
Hemp is a species of Cannabis. Under the plasticulture model shown in the picture, you can attain $20-60,000 gross profit at harvest.
 
Hawkins said:
I'm in SC, but just curious what the return on what 1 acre harvest would be?
 
Also how similar is hemp to cannabis? Hoping for it to be legal in the next decade or so, wouldn't mind practicing with hemp.
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I hope to grow some in my bassackwards bleedin' red state before I die. It could happen. The feds forced the holy rollers to allow sales and possession of CBD products a few months ago. This after I've been "importing" crystal isolate from Colorado for more than two years.
 
Here in Pennsylvania, hemp is all the rage with the commercial growers. However, one grower interviewed here said he was waiting on very expensive specialized harvesting equipment, as his harvesters couldn't handle the hemp. Is hemp that much tougher than an "ordinary" harvester normally used for, say, feed corn, couldn't get the job done?
 
nmlarson said:
Here in Pennsylvania, hemp is all the rage with the commercial growers. However, one grower interviewed here said he was waiting on very expensive specialized harvesting equipment, as his harvesters couldn't handle the hemp. Is hemp that much tougher than an "ordinary" harvester normally used for, say, feed corn, couldn't get the job done?
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I was talking with a large corporate farmer yesterday. He probably has five miles of equipment if it was all lined up in a row. He said he wants to start growing cotton again because it's becoming more lucrative than the industrial food he customarily grows. Thing is, he doesn't really want to spend the $800,000 it would cost him for a cotton picker.
 
DWB said:
 
I was talking with a large corporate farmer yesterday. He probably has five miles of equipment if it was all lined up in a row. He said he wants to start growing cotton again because it's becoming more lucrative than the industrial food he customarily grows. Thing is, he doesn't really want to spend the $800,000 it would cost him for a cotton picker.
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Yes, I suppose you'd have to grow a LOT of cotton to fully amortize and depreciate that sort of equipment purchase.
 
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