U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell locked down a provision in the Senate Agriculture bill to allow the processing of legally cultivated industrial hemp. The word choice would assist farmers to deliver legal industrial hemp between states so the crop can be cultivated for commercial reasons.
“Kentucky’s industrial hemp pilot programs continue to prosper and I want to make sure our legal hemp producers can safely transport their crops between states, including to states that maintain processing facilities, so they can fully capitalize on the commercial potential for this commodity,” said McConnell.
“This latest language reemphasizes that industrial hemp from a farm bill research program is an agricultural commodity. The ability of Kentucky to research the full potential of industrial hemp through processing, marketing, and sales is vital to understanding the future possibilities for industrial hemp. Kentucky’s agriculture community continues to be indebted to Senator McConnell for his continued leadership on industrial hemp,” said Kentucky Commissioner of Agriculture James Comer.
Back in June, McConnell worked with Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR)and Jon Tester (D-MT) to secure the word selection in the Senate Commerce, Justice, and Science Appropriations bill to ensure that legal industrial hemp pilot programs, like those in Kentucky, can keep moving forward without federal disruption.
These most current hemp provisions develop upon McConnell’s work in this past year’s Farm Bill, which provided state agricultural commissioners and universities the federal dominance to farm industrial hemp for pilot programs.
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