PENDLETON COUNTY, W.Va. (WHSV) — After the approval of the 2018 Farm Bill legalizing industrial hemp in the U.S., a West Virginia farmer is looking to grow hemp and other CBD products. Mike Weaver was a poultry farmer for several years, working with Pilgrim’s Pride in Moorefield, West Virginia. Last year, he joined other poultry growers to voice discontent with the company, saying they hadn’t gotten any well-deserved raises for nearly two decades. “When you go to the store, and you pay $2 or $3 for a pound of chicken, I get 5 cents of that and I raised that chicken,” Weaver told WHSV at the time. Now, he’s headed down another avenue. “I’m not going to raise chickens anymore,” Weaver said. “Now, I’m developing an operation on my farm to start growing and processing industrial hemp and CBD oil products.” Weaver said part of the reason why he was attracted to making the switch to hemp was because of the large number of uses of the crop. Uses for hemp include thousands of products, like rope, oils, clothes, fibers similar to plastic, food and more. Historically, hemp was one of the earliest grown crops in the area, serving as… Read full this story
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