Edith Cook Online

October 2018. In July of this year the growing of hemp became legal in Wyoming. However, until the Department of Agriculture issues its guidelines, farmers must take a wait-and-see stance. Even the first attempts will be mere "trials" of 1/4-acre plots. Nevertheless, I am taking certain preliminary steps. For example, I secured a state grant to construct a high tunnel, see title page of construction manual to the left. While visiting Colorado hemp farmers I saw they raise their seedlings in high tunnels, then transplant them to the acreage outdoors when the plants are about two foot high. 

For the first few years, however, I may not use the high tunnel for hemp plants, since they are still labeled Schedule I in the scheme of the federal DEA, the Drug Enforcement Agency, and the state grant is partly funded by federal money. I may have to raise tomatoes until that changes.