Harvest around halfway for industrial hemp crop

September 23, 2020 Carol Kuster State News 0

The harvest of the traditional crops in the state is just getting underway while the harvest for the first year of a revitalized crop is now about half done. Robin Pruisner with the Iowa Department of Agriculture says there were 729 acres certified this year to grow industrial hemp. “Six-hundred-and-53 of it was actually planted. […]