The 2014 Farm Bill allowed US institutions of higher education and state departments of agriculture to grow industrial hemp for the purpose of research unless state law prohibited it. Here researchers compile research findings since then on aspects of industrial hemp that would affect its success as a modern commodity crop. They cover the history of hemp, hemp grain, hemp fibers, hemp agronomy: grain and fiber production, cannabinoids: human physiology and agronomic principles for production, hemp genetics and genomics, and economic issues and perspectives for industrial hemp. Annotation ©2020 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Hemp as a Modern U.S. Commodity Crop provides an overview of industrial hemp as an agronomic crop in western cropping systems. Emphasis is given to the long history of hemp, mostly in the United States, and to current production issues pertinent in the US as well as Europe and Canada. There are many questions still to be answered ? starting with those to be addressed by the most basic classical plant breeding techniques and continuing to the most modern analytical techniques of plant tissues and genetics.
