Harvesting hemp in Chouteau County

Harvesting hemp in Chouteau County

Harvesting hemp in Chouteau County

Nicholas Bogart is a farmer in Fort Benton that has determined to strive a complete new type of farming – a hemp crop. “That is all very new, however when my spouse and I moved again to the farm, we already heard slightly bit about hemp farming however when the chance got here we simply kinda took it. We haven’t been capable of inform if it will revenue or not, however hopefully will probably be price it.”

Though Bogart could also be new to the hemp farming scene, IND Hemp, which is the enterprise that might be shopping for the crop, hooked them up with an agronomist who has to this point been capable of lead them within the correct course.

Ben Brimlow has been working with hemp since 2019 and says that it is a crop that he might see himself working with for a very long time.

Brimlow has been capable of see the financial impression that hemp can have on a group however understands that it’s a threat to study a complete new crop: “In lots of circumstances it does beat out a crop’s pricing that being stated it does take a studying curve to develop this crop.”

Bogart will not be the primary farmer that IND Hemp has taught the ropes of hemp farming

Trey Riddel of IND Hemp stated, “Many of the farmers who’ve contracts with IND by no means grew hemp earlier than. We’ve a contract with our farmers the place they develop vegetation after which promote them to us.”

Hemp farming continues to be a studying course of for a lot of farmers however it might be Montana’s subsequent massive money crop.