TOPEKA — Lack of Kansas-specific knowledge about growing hemp and modest opportunity to market the plant’s fiber for manufacturing and grain for flour are limiting financial return for Kansas farmers working with the alternative crop, state auditors said Wednesday.
Auditors with the Kansas Legislature released a report to a joint House and Senate committee indicating hemp could become a more profitable crop in Kansas depending on harvest yields, development of markets for hemp fiber and grains and future demand of CBD products. The analysis for 2019 was hampered by lack of…
