In early September, hops went whizzing by on an elaborate network of conveyor belts at B.C. Hop Farms near Woodburn. One month later, this year’s hemp harvest made the same journey, whisked from the back of a truck to the drying room to the packaging area.
Bill Davidson, vice president of B.C. Hop Farms, is one of a couple thousand farmers in Oregon looking to cash in on the CBD craze. It’s an exciting time, but one that’s not without its risks.
“We didn’t know what we were getting into,” Davidson said. His family has grown hops and other crops for decades. But even though the production of hemp has been legal since 2010, it has been largely uncharted territory until the last couple of years.
In Oregon, hemp is primarily grown for CBD, an extract touted as a treatment for everything from aches and pains to anxiety and insomnia. Hemp is a non-intoxicating variety of cannabis that contains 0.3% or less tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).
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