Hemp

Over the past year, a pair of cousins bought two vacant industrial properties in Vermont. And they believe they have the right business to bring new life to the spaces: Processing industrial hemp. But to be successful, the cousins will need more farmers to grow the crop.

The state of Vermont’s hemp industry. Plus, declining COVID-19 cases, a possible rate increase for Burlington Electric, and a new president at Northern…

What do new national trade deals mean for Vermont's dairy industry? Was last year's hemp harvest a boom or bust for Vermont growers? Vermont Edition…

Kimball Brook Farm is no longer in the milk business. The family-owned organic dairy sold many of its cows and halted production at its bottling plant…

The U.S. Department of Agriculture last week released a new set of interim rules for how hemp plants will be regulated under federal law. The rules come…

The number of people who grew hemp in Vermont this year more than doubled, and with a steep increase like that, there have been some growing pains among…

When Congress legalized hemp farming at the end of last year, CNN’s Harmeet Kaur wrote: “... if you try to smoke hemp, you'll probably just end up with a…

The acres of hemp being grown in Vermont, as well as the number of people registered to grow or process the crop in the state, have all more than doubled…

There’s still some uncertainty around the federal and the state rules that regulate hemp — but as the market for CBD oil grows, there’s a lot of…

The U.S. House voted Wednesday afternoon to pass a compromise farm bill that boosts protections for smaller-sized dairy farms.The bill, which revamps an…