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Is the Hemp Fight Really About Farmers? | Trade to Black
Congress is racing to deal with hemp before December 11, and one Wisconsin hemp farmer says many of the bills on the table protect the conversion model, not farmers. On this Trade to Black interview, presented by Flowhub, hosts Shadd Dales and Anthony Varrell sit down with Alexander Mootz, who has worked in hemp since 2018 and rents the land he grows on. He walks through the 2019 CBD crash, flying to bankruptcy sales of biomass, and why he says prices never recovered.Mootz argues that hemp today is mostly profitable because of chemical conversions that turn CBD into intoxicating products, and…
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