A deer looked to get in on the green boom and ate a large amount of industrial hemp in Southern Oregon. The deer was able to get past a barbed-wire fence and ate hemp plants “like high-powered mowers” according to the Grants Pass Daily Courier. Cliff Thomason is a real estate agent and was in charge of keeping his eyes on the first industrial hemp crop in Oregon.
“Generally, I don’t think they like cannabis. They liked ours, though,” said Thomason.
The company (Orhempco) began farming near a thousand plants in the area that the deer entered and now there are allegedly about 40 left. Industrial hemp is very low in THC which is the chemical that gets people high. Kit Doyle – also working in Orhemco – reported that it is also high in protein which may have been the reason why the deer ate so many plants. Orhempco has various crops hemp and each has been planted periodically and are all at different stages of growth; very few of those plants have the right protection from deer. Not all crops were properly protected due to the uncertainty of the program itself.
“We wanted to hurry and get in the ground and we didn’t want to spend a lot of money,” Doyle reported. “Next year, if we decide to grow in the same place, we will have the necessary infrastructure.”
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