LEXINGTON, Ky. – A hemp crop years in the making in the halls of the Kentucky legislature and the U.S. Congress took only a few minutes to harvest Tuesday from a University of Kentucky farm field.
With that harvest of plants ranging from 7 to 10 feet high, roughly half of the first-year experimental crop is now out of the field and headed, or soon to be headed, for future uses such as oil to treat epileptic seizures, biomass fuel, grain, concrete — even American flags, officials said.
