Max Armstrong offers some insight into what Max saw about this year’s hemp production based on what he saw on his social media feed. He’s finding that there’s quite a scramble to this new crop and the opportunity of industrial hemp. Hemp acreage in the U.S. tripled from 2017 to 2018. But there are risks according to a CoBank analysis that farmers should know about.

Farm Progress America is a daily look at key issues in agriculture. It is produced and presented by Max Armstrong, veteran farm broadcaster and host of This Week in Agribusiness.

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