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Murray State makes history with hemp

Story by Bri Hunter Contributing writer briannahunter5@gmail.com Murray State has teamed up with new businesses by using industrial hemp to make wood.  On May 29, the Hutson School of Agriculture recognized its foundational partners for the new Center of Agricultural Hemp. Congressman James Comer, who was instrumental in legalizing hemp in Kentucky while serving as Read More

Updated: Murray State makes history with hemp

Bri Hunter Contributing Writer briannahunter5@gmail.com Murray State makes history with hemp Murray State has teamed up with new businesses by using industrial hemp to make wood. On May 29, the Hutson School of Agriculture recognized its foundational partners for the new Center of Agricultural Hemp. Congressman James Comer, who was instrumental in legalizing hemp in Read More

Legislation would raise tobacco purchasing age

Cady Stribling Staff writer cstribling1@murraystate.edu Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell announced a proposal for legislation to change the purchasing age of tobacco. McConnell hopes to introduce national legislation to change the age for tobacco and vape use from 18 to 21. McConnell announced his plans for his proposal during a press conference in Louisville, Kentucky on Read More

Murray welcomes the hemp industry

Story by Cady Stribling Staff writer cstribling1@murraystate.edu Calloway County will soon welcome its first HempWood manufacturing operation to expand the hemp industry. Governor Matt Bevin announced plans on March 19 for a new $5.8 million investment that will create 25 full time jobs, according to the press release. Kentucky recently approved the 2018 farm bill, Read More

Murray State helps grow the hemp industry

Story by Cady Stribling Staff Writer cstribling1@murraystate.edu The Board of Regents approved the Center for Agricultural Hemp on March 1. The center will focus on topics including agronomy, cannabinoid science, agribusiness, economics and finance, animal feeds and fibers, education, hemp policy, workforce development and agricultural hemp farming, according to the Murray State press release. Murray Read More

Rep. James Comer pushes for hemp research

Story by James Turner, Staff writer U.S. Congressman James Comer spoke at the William Cherry Exposition Center Friday, Oct. 26, to advocate research of agricultural hemp. The Agricultural Hemp Educational Program was held to inform Murray of its role in the growing hemp industry. Hemp and marijuana is often confused, but hemp has a different 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

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