Farmers Crowd Fayetteville Industrial Hemp Clinic

KUAF | By Jacqueline Froelich

Published February 14, 2019 at 3:28 PM CST

Arkansas Hemp Genetics co-founders Jody Hardin, forward, and Bill Morgan, on stage, discuss a medical hemp culitivation powerpoint.

Several dozen farmers and investors recently met in Fayetteville at a clinic hosted by Arkansas Hemp Genetics to discuss licensing and best cultivation practices. A federal prohibition on growing industrial cannabis was lifted late last year.

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Jacqueline Froelich

Jacqueline Froelich is an investigative journalist and has been a news producer for KUAF National Public Radio since 1998. She covers politics, the environment, energy, business, education, history, race and culture. Her radio segments have been nationally syndicated. She is also a station-based national correspondent for NPR in Washington DC., and recipient of eight national and state broadcast awards.

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