09-15-2022, 07:27 AM
(09-02-2022, 05:59 PM)tvguy Wrote:(08-30-2022, 12:58 PM)GPnative Wrote: I didn't grow any hemp plants this year either, still had some from last year, and based on all the abandoned hemp farms I was not alone! There must of been a lot of people that lost their shirts on that bubble. The only hemp farms I even noticed this year were a couple off of I5 near Sunny Valley. I'm sure there's more but compared to the year when everywhere you turned was a hemp farm, it collapsed.
Wonder how the folks out in Sam's Valley that took out all their wonderful blueberry and raspberry u-pick plants to convert to hemp that now sits empty and barren this year feel about that decision....
They are probably kicking themselves in the ass.
"There must of been a lot of people that lost their shirts on that bubble"
For sure I think I read it was more than half. and that some committed suicide.
Article in yesterdays payer says acreage of hemp planted in the state is down 95% And only 1 in 7 farmers who planted hemp in 2019 are still growing it today. In 2019, 64,000 acres were licensed to be planted, this year 3,250.