Maggie’s Popular Mechanics- supported hemp as a wonder crop

[hermosabeach]

Personally not a fan of weed and scotch...

I do find it amazing that George Soros and Facebook have been able to manipulate our country.
How google shows us what we need to find on the web.

I guess I should not be surprised that one man- made weed illegal.
not a president
Not a senator.

an asshole who owned lumber mills, timber and newspapers -William Randolph Hearst-

it’s amazing how one person can change the future

Popular Mechanics: Billion Dollar Crop (1938)

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Popular Mechanics: Billion Dollar Crop (1938)
1938
Popular Mechanics describes hemp as the new billion dollar crop. The article was actually written in the spring of 1937, before cannabis was criminalized. Also in February 1938, Mechanical Engineering calls hemp the most profitable and desirable crop that can be grown.

 

[hermosabeach]

 

[sirhrmechanic]

 

[W54/XM-388]

Hemp was made practically illegal because DuPont and several other big chemical companies needed an unfair advantage for their products to be accepted.

 

[hermosabeach]

It’s my understanding that dow Corning made asbestos deadly.

fiberglass has the same risk as asbestos. Canada had asbestos to mine and they were a thread to fiberglass....

the misinformation that is spread is insane - now and 5,000 years ago

 

[myronman3]

^ yup. everyone is scared as fuck of asbestos....but do not hesitate to handle/work around fiberglass.

 

[Foul Mike]

Local hemp farm in my area put a LOT of people to work in my area. If you wanted a job and would work they paid you top $ for labor.

If you hired on and didn't work, you got weeded out.

It is a very labor intensive crop.

 

[Anb618]

This is the first year IL is allowing agricultural hemp production. A buddy of mine ran a few small fields on his family farm, working the whole process by hand with a few close friends as (well compensated) paid labor. If my work schedule wasn’t so hectic, I’d have been out there too.

Net Profit per acre of each;
Corn - $673.35/acre (determined based on 2017 average of $3.35/bushel)
Beans - $556.80/acre
Hemp/CBD - estimated $90,000-$160,000/acre

Below article was published in a local county farm journal I happened to come across a while back and managed to find it just now.

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If it goes well, he may be moving completely out of corn/beans, and I sure as hell wouldn’t blame him.

 

[Jefe's Dope]

Local hemp farm in my area put a LOT of people to work in my area. If you wanted a job and would work they paid you top $ for labor.

If you hired on and didn't work, you got weeded out.

It is a very labor intensive crop.

There's a large hemp farm on the way to the NRL22 match tomorrow North of Ft. Collins. Easy 40 acres. Probably more. At first I thought it was a field full of weeds not weed. ?

 

[Bubdavi]

I have a couple of friends that have started small hemp farms. There are a few drawbacks. If your crop test to high in thc It’s no good for cbd, and if you don’t get paid until your buyer is payed, or at least that’s what I’ve been told. It’s also very expensive to buy the sets and lots of hands on labor. Even more so than tobacco in some ways.

 

[kwest99]

We jumped on the hemp band wagon in VA in 2019

We have been growing labor intensive specialty crops for 30 years. I always thought, if I could only grow pot the way I have been growing tomatoes….. Well hemp ain’t your granddaddy’s tomatoes. It has one of the steepest learning curves of any crop I have ever grown. Not to mention all of the regulations that have been changing throughout the growing season. Kind of unnerving to grow a crop and not know if it will be legal at harvest. That said, one of the most fun to learn about.

My experience is that the 90-100k per acre returns you hear about are bogus. Right now there is a lack of processors and a lot of crop to be processed. Prices now are very low. No where near the return on what an acre of tomatoes will bring. Our crop is harvested and stored in hopes the processing will catch up and prices will rise. Wouldn’t be the first crop I have lost money on. My advice to anyone wanting to get into it, Don’t quit your day job.

 

[hermosabeach]

In southern California, every store is flooded with CBD oil products... my guess is that 99% do nothing...


The war of disinformation is an amazing one to watch...

 

[SuckitTrebek]

Personally I am a fan of weed and scotch.