This fall, the USDA’s National Ag Statistics Service will mail its first Hemp Acreage and Production Survey. Eric Sommer, State Statistician for Montana, encourages growers to be on the lookout for the survey in their mailboxes starting this month.
“On October 18th, we’ll mail out the inaugural hemp survey, which is very exciting,” said Sommer. “This is the first survey and it's going to be our benchmark for producers as an official place to find data. And it's going to include surveying both the indoor and outdoor producers of hemp.”
Farmers have only been growing hemp on a large scale since 2018, when The Domestic Hemp Production Program was established in the Farm Bill allowing for the cultivation of hemp under certain conditions. He says it is encouraging to see the interest in hemp production continue to climb.
“It always amazes me how optimistic they are and how eager they are to embrace new things like new technology and crops,” said Sommer.
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