With a cool spring this year, hemp producers experienced a delayed planting season and are anticipating a delayed harvest. Despite those setbacks, the crop is looking healthy this year.
Florence Degenhardt grows hemp with her husband and son for their business, Cannabis Cultivators of Clark County, in Greenwood. She shares more about how the crop has fared this year in Wisconsin.
Degenhardt explains that her family carries out all of the work by hand. They grow 210 plants in their operation, and she says that all aspects of production are done without machinery, from planting to harvest.
“Last year we harvested in August,” says Degenhardt. “[This year] we’re thinking end of September.”
Planting was also pushed back from the end of May to the middle of June. Degenhardt says the plants are now about three feet tall, but as harvest approaches they will shoot up to six feet.
The hemp market is looking good, and Degenhardt says it experiences its ups and downs like any other market. She and her husband sell CBD products, and despite inflation, they have lowered their prices to make them more available to their costumers coming out of the COVID pandemic.
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