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"We ended up getting enough farmers to plant over 2,500 acres into industrial hemp and launch S.D. to the No. 2 hemp-producing state in the U.S. in 2022, in just our second year of growing ...
The following table shows the vegetable oil yields of common energy crops associated with biodiesel production. Included is growing zone data, relevant to farmers and agricultural scientists. This is unrelated to ethanol production, which relies on starch, sugar and cellulose content instead of oil yields.
The average yield of dry hemp stalks in Europe was 6 ton/ha (2.4 ton/ac) in 2001 and 2002. [14] FAO argue that an optimum yield of hemp fiber is more than 2 tons per ha, while average yields are around 650 kg/ha. [112]
Spreading harvested hemp in Kentucky, 1898. Hemp in the United States is a legal crop. It was legal in the 18th and 19th centuries, then production was effectively banned in the mid-20th century, and it returned as a legal crop in the 21st century. By 2019, the United States had become the world's third largest producer of hemp, behind China ...
Advocates say there is potential for the crop to have greater economic benefit and that regulations on CBD and more infrastructure will help that happen.
Kentucky began production again with 33 acres in 2014. As of the 2016 harvest season, only two U.S. states other than Kentucky had over 100 acres (40 ha) in hemp production: Colorado and Tennessee. The first 500-acre commercial crop was planted in Harrison County in 2017, and research permits were issued for over 12,000 acres (4,900 ha) that year.
The plant puts Wichita Falls at the top of the list for industrial hemp production in North and South America, and it is the second-largest industrial hemp production facility in the world.
It is estimated that growing kenaf on 5,000 acres (20 km 2) can produce enough pulp to supply a paper plant having a capacity of 200 tons per day. Over 20 years, 1-acre (4,000 m 2 ) of farmland can produce 10 to 20 times the amount of fiber that 1-acre (4,000 m 2 ) of Southern pine can produce.