As the average age of farmers in the U.S. continues to increase, hemp legalization is exciting a younger generation about working in agriculture, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR) says.
That’s the “real driver” behind his cannabis advocacy, the senator said, adding that he “knew that this would be a huge bonanza for Oregon agriculture” when the crop was federally legalized under the 2018 Farm Bill. But he said further reforms are still needed to support the industry, and he’s recently introduced legislation to achieve that.
“We’ve seen a lot of young farmers get very interested in hemp,” Wyden said during an interview with U.S. Hemp Roundtable General Counsel Jonathan Miller.
“At a time when the age of farmers in America keeps going up and up, to have all these young farmers interested and coming back to the farm because they see so much potential here” shows that “we’re on the right side of history,” he said.
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