HURON, S.D. (KELO.com) — The South Dakota Farmers Union says state lawmakers now have all the information they need to make industrial hemp work for the state’s farmers.
The Farmers Union is applauding USDA’s long-awaited regulations governing hemp production.
“It’s a rural development issue ripe for the picking – unfortunately, our producers don’t get to benefit from this new opportunity,” says SDFU President Doug Sombke.
Sombke says his group will work to get a bill passed in the 2020 State Legislature, legalizing hemp.
Governor Kristi Noem continues to strongly oppose legalization, even as her team reviews the new regs.
She vetoed the hemp bill passed by the 2019 State Legislature.
46 states have legalized industrial hemp.
