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WE NEED YOU TO HELP TAKE ACTION ON GETTING INDIANA HEMP COMPLIANT UNDER 2018 FARM BILL

Indiana will be one of the first state's to submit 2018 Farm Bill compliant language for their hemp program ..."   S 516 will bring Indiana current under the 2018 Farm Bill, and allow our state to gain ground in this emerging industry. We need you to help TAKE ACTION by contacting your local legislator to vote YES on S516!

ILLINOIS FARMERS, PROCESSORS, SMALL BUSINESS ENTREPRENEURS REJOICING OVER POTENTIAL OF NEW CROP

Last May Illinois passed legislation to remove restrictions on industrial hemp, and in August Governor Rauner signed the bill into law.  We are grateful to our elected officials who worked to pass the law, and we've been waiting patiently for the first draft of the rules.

THE MIDWEST HEMP COUNCIL, INDIANA HEMP INDUSTRIES ASSOC., AND THE INDIANA FARMER'S UNION HEMP CHAPTER HOST AN EVENING OF NETWORKING

Registration for our evening of hemp networking is now closed. We are very excited about this event, hosted by Rooster's Kitchen, on Wednesday, January 16, 2018 at 630 PM. Thanks to owner and chef, Ross Katz, who will be preparing a menu for the evening that will highlight products from our local businesses and generous sponsors, Trietsch Farms Evo Hemp Dreem Nutrition and Foods Alive.  

GROWERS ANXIOUSLY AWAIT ACTION BY INDIANA LEGISLATURE ON INDUSTRIAL HEMP - HOOSIER AG TODAY PODCAST

The farm bill’s legalization of hemp as an agricultural crop has many farmers excited and eager to try it out on their farm. Mark Boyer, farmer in Miami County and champion for the legalization of industrial hemp, says that the Indiana Legislature still needs to update state law to allow hemp production.
THE MIDWEST HEMP COUNCIL BOARD CELEBRATES THE END OF HEMP PROHIBITION

On Thursday, December 20th, the MHC Board met to discuss goals for 2019 and review legislative and regulatory priorities.  As the meeting coincided with the 2018 Farm Bill being signed, thus removing hemp from the Controlled Substance Act, we raised our mugs of local brew to Hemp History and all of those who have worked tirelessly to make it happen!  Congratulations, Hoosiers! Let's get to work!

Justin Swanson, President
Jamie Campbell Petty, Treasurer
Alan Kimbell, Secretary

STATE CHEMIST ROBERT WALTZ RESPONDS TO FARM BILL AND SAYS MANY SEED SUPPLIES ARE LOW AND ALREADY COMMITTED

Hoosier chemist responds to today's passage of the 2018 Farm Bill, removing hemp from the Controlled Substances Act and suggests farmers will need to wait a little longer to begin full-scale grow outs..

BREAKING NEWS: WATCH PRESIDENT TRUMP SIGN THE NEW FARM BILL LIVE AT 2:30PM TODAY

President Trump is scheduled to sign the Farm Bill at 2:30 pm EST today! Hemp and all of its parts and derivatives will be removed from the shackles of the Controlled Substances Act.

WNDU-TV TALKS WITH JAMIE CAMPBELL-PETTY FROM MHC ABOUT NEW FARM BILL AND LEGALIZATION OF HEMP

Congress has passed a Farm Bill that provides a heaping helping of legitimacy to hemp in that it will become a completely legal commodity. MHC's Jamie Campbell-Petty talks with WNDU-TV.

WITH FEDERAL FARM BILL COMPROMISE, WILL INDIANA LEGALIZE PRODUCING HEMP?

Industrial hemp legislation is expected to appear again in the upcoming Indiana legislative session – and might now be helped along by federal law.

FELONS ALREADY GROWING HEMP CAN CONTINUE
UNDER FARM BILL COMPROMISE

Felons already growing hemp in states that don’t ban their participation – such as Colorado – would be allowed to continue, according to McClatchy, but farmers looking to enter the industry would have to show they have not been convicted of a drug felony in the past 10 years.

INDUSTRIAL HEMP LEGALIZED!

Industrial hemp will be legalized. It's a boon for the increasingly popular cannabidiol, or CBD oil, industry, which is being used for medicinal purposes.

WHAT IS CDB OIL? CANNABIDIOL AS A LEGAL AGRIBUSINESS
IN THE HOOSIER STATE

Did you know that Indiana has one of the most expansive CBD laws in the country? There could be a seismic shift coming in 2019 regarding where Hoosiers can source their CBD, allowing farmers to diversify income, according to Justin Swanson at Bose McKinney & Evans LLP.

CHARDWICK HEMP FARM DRAWS $7 MILLION INVESTMENT

According to a recent article on the VTDigger.com website, Green Mountain CBD, which does its own hemp processing and manufacturing of CBD products, confirmed that One Better Ventures, a Raleigh, North Carolina, venture capital firm, bought a minority stake in the company, which will change its name to Sunsoil in early 2019.

INDUSTRIAL HEMP PROVIDES FARMERS OPPORTUNITIES, SAYS MICHAEL CLEMENTS DURING FARM BUREAU PODCAST

Rob Richard, senior director for government relations, Wisconsin
Farm Bureau, says Farm Bureau members pledged support for the legalization of industrial hemp prior to the last farm bill.

CHRIS MOORMAN: STATE SHOULD FREE HOOSIER FARMERS TO GROW HEMP

This month, Hoosiers will be reminded—by combines, grain wagons and stopped traffic on country roads—just how critically important Indiana’s $32 billion agriculture industry is to our state’s economy.

INDIANA FARMERS NEED INDUSTRIAL HEMP TO PROSPER

Indiana farmers continue to take it on the chin. Some of the latest data from the U.S Department of Agriculture shows the prices of the state’s two primary cash crops – corn and soybeans – have fallen into the proverbial crapper due to imbalanced supply and demand. (Reposted from Forbes.com)

ILLINOIS GOVERNOR SIGNS INDUSTRIAL HEMP BILL

Illinois farmers now have the opportunity to grow industrial hemp, thanks to the Governor’s signature at the DuQuoin County Fair

SENATOR McCONNELL TOUTS HEMP BILL

Kentucky farmers are following a bill in Congress that would legalize industrial hemp production in the United States. If passed, the bill introduced by Senator Mitch McConnell could make industrial hemp the fastest growing cash crop in Kentucky.

MEMBER MARK BOYER FEATURED IN IBJ ARTICLE

On June 7, Boyer planted 300 pounds of hemp seed—obtained through a Purdue University researcher—on a 10-acre plot. The plants will mature later this summer, when he will take their seeds and turn them into hemp oil—and hemp oil only. Under the research rules, he can’t use the rest of the plant.

INDIANA LAWMAKERS TOUR PURDUE HEMP FARM

"There's no doubt you can use hemp for things such as paper, animal bedding or eating the seeds." Robert Turco said, "We think there's a market for it, but It just has to develop."

LOCAL FARMER BUILDS BUSINESS ON UNCOMMON CROP

After decades of growing commodity crops, Mark Boyer was looking for a way to diversify his farming operation. Then he decided to try something new. The sixth-generation farmer tucked a field of sunflowers between his corn and his soybeans.