Specialty planters adapted for hemp

Barb Bierman Batie
Oct 23, 2019
Oct 23, 2019 Updated Jun 25, 2020

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From a legal crop in the 18th and 19th centuries, to a banned substance in the 20th century, industrial hemp has come full circle to become a legal crop again in the 21st century.

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