Rusty Rumley, senior staff attorney for the National Agricultural Law Center, will outline the current regulatory landscape for industrial hemp in a Sept. 18 webinar that starts at noon. The National Agricultural Law Center with producers, state and federal policymakers, Congressional staffers, attorneys, land grant universities, and many others to provide nonpartisan agricultural and food law research and information to the nation’s agricultural community. The Ag Law Center is also a unit of the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture and works in close partnership with the USDA Agricultural Research Service, National Agricultural Library. The 2018 Farm Bill lays the foundation for the commercial production of industrial hemp in the United States. These plans must be approved by the USDA. Understanding the new regulations and other potential hurdles are critical for the successful production of industrial hemp in the United States.
Rusty Rumley, senior staff attorney for the National Agricultural Law Center, will outline the current regulatory landscape for industrial hemp in a Sept. 18 webinar that starts at noon. There is no cost to attend the webinar.
The 2018 Farm Bill lays the foundation for the commercial production of industrial hemp in the United States. State departments of agriculture and tribal governments are currently waiting on regulations from the U.S. Department of Agriculture under which states will create their own plans to regulate the cultivation of industrial hemp. These plans must be approved by the USDA. Understanding the new regulations and other potential...
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