Max Armstrong shares more insight from Kentucky Farmer Brian Furnish on the hemp market. Furnish testified to the Senate Ag Committee noting there are still barriers to the crop. The crop has no legal fungicide or herbicide to protect a hemp field; today they rely on manual labor. There is also no crop insurance either.

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