With Westmoreland County’s first industrial hemp harvest under way, the growing pains are evident. Two harvester machines that had been made available to farmers for lease were sidelined last week ...

MT. VERNON, Mo. — Growing hemp in Missouri is now legal. There is a farm outside of Mt. Vernon that is farming and harvesting its hemp and it has a one-of-a-kind machine that’s helping them and other ...

MT. VERNON, Mo.- Growing hemp in Missouri is now legal, and Elder Farms near Mt. Vernon is farming and harvesting its hemp, and it has a -one of a kind machine that’s helping them. The farm is growing ...

Ajit Singh strode across his 16-acre hemp field toward a broken-down harvester. He’d been hoping all day that the mechanic now crouched beside the machine could get it back up and running. It was late ...

These are nervous times for some local farmers, as the state’s first large-scale hemp crop in eight decades approaches harvest season amid ongoing regulatory and market questions. Hemp has to pass a ...