harvest

Bad weather won’t stop harvest

Story by McKenna Dosier, Contributing writer Heavy rains at the beginning of the summer and the lack of rain toward the end of the summer threw Kentucky farmers and their crops a curveball this season. The second round of soybeans, planted after wheat, were affected by dry conditions, but were still not the worst crops area farmers Read More

Low hemp harvest yield expected

Story by Lauren Epperson, Contributing writer By late May, Murray State agriculture students still were awaiting the arrival of the key ingredient to their summer hemp-growing program: the seeds. Getting them to Murray took two more months, attempted shipments from two countries, a pair of bureaucratic paperwork snafus and two of the largest delivery companies in the Read More

Hemp has successes, failures

“If you grow it, they will come,” said Chris Nelson from Marshall, Mo., standing in the remains of Murray State’s hemp crop, which was harvested Wednesday. Nelson is one of many who attended the Hutson School of Agriculture’s pre-session to the second National Bioenergy Day celebration. Nelson periodically traveled between Murray and Marshall since the Read More

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