Re: Over 100 Indiana farmers prepare for hemp harvest

Posted by paul on September 18, 2019 at 08:31:56 from (76.77.197.114):

In Reply to: Over 100 Indiana farmers prepare for hemp harvest posted by Geo-TH,In on September 18, 2019 at 03:57:29:

Local restaurant owner talked up the merits of hemp oil, fella tried it because it sounded good. Lost his CDL for 6 months I think it was, needs to follow extra testing and programs now. He was/ is a truck driver, no one thought that through.....

Is what it is.

It gets confusing who is growing what any more.

There is medicinal which is marijuana, very strict toy controlled.

There is oil, and seeds, and fiber from the hemp.

Seed harvest seems pretty straight forward. Tough to cut and dry but would be common practice for a farmer.

But it’s confusing where they want to harvest the bud or blossom, that seems like it is either very labor intensive hard picking to get the best quality, or you cut off the plant tops and harvest everything to be sorted out later as a bigger volume lower labor, but much lower value bud harvest?

Then there is the fiber crop, which everyone talks about but it,is a low value, hardly any real market for it yet, crop, would cost more to transport then to use these days so far? Obviously fairly easy to harvest if you can get it dry but who really wants it?

It appears there are far more growers trying it than there are markets for any of the products at this point in time, if the oil price drops rapidly from over supply it going to be really ugly for everyone involved.

I really haven’t ever gotten an answer as to what really is really used for what product, as to the seeds and buds and the different ways they are harvested.

In fact there seems more confusion than fact on the whole hemp deal.

I would enjoy a new crop out there in the rotation even if I don’t personally grow it, but there seems to be a lot of risk of this market crashing and a lot of lost money at this time.

So very many druggie type folks are behind it for whatever reason that is kind of a turn off, even tho I fully realize the actual hemp products are not supposed to have more than a hint of the drug in them.

Kinda fun to be on the sidelines and watch all this unfold.

I’m still curious on a real answer as to what part of the plant is actually harvested for what end product. Especially between seeds and buds and hand harvesting vs mechanical harvesting. It seems to me a lot of folk are confused on all that.

Paul

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• Re: Over 100 Indiana farmers prepare for hemp harvest Geo-TH,In 09:51:30 09/18/19 (0)

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