Depending on the variety, hemp can grow to impressive heights. In the photo, Dana is assessing the flowering stage of these 11-foot-tall plants.
Author: Dana Landry
Harvest Time
Exciting times for hemp growers! The 2024 hemp season is ending, and it’s time to harvest. Harvesting hemp can be a big event, especially if you’re looking forward to the yields for CBD, fiber, or seeds. In our research program we use a sickle mower to harvest fiber plots.
Hemp Research Open House = Success!!
Thank you to everyone who joined the 2024 Hemp Research Open House. We’re especially grateful to our speakers for their valuable insights and our sponsors for their support, which helped make this event successful. Your participation was greatly valued. Thankful for this team for making the 2024 Hemp Open House a success!
2024 Hemp Research Open House Sponsors
We are very thankful for our 2024 sponsors. For more information on our sponsors please click their logo.
National Association for Plant Breeding Annual Conference – hemp field tour
At the NAPB annual conference this week, people got to check out our hemp research fields and see for themselves how our agricultural research is going. The tour let us show off our variety, fertilizer and planting date trials. The NPBC attendees were really impressed with how healthy and strong our hemp plants looked. They […]
NIHH Hemp Building Workshop
The University of Illinois – Hemp Research program was able to be part of the the Hemp Building Workshop put on by the Northern Illinois Hemp Hub (NIHH). We were able to get hands on experience by helping build the first permitted hemp structure in Illinois.
Insects found in the outdoor Hemp, 2024
Current EPA approved pesticides
Pesticide Products Registered for Use on Hemp as of December 2023. https://www.epa.gov/pesticide-registration/pesticide-products-registered-use-hemp
2023 Farm Progress Show
This year Dana will be at the Farm Progress Show in Decatur IL on Tuesday, August 29th. 2023 is the first time that hemp has been apart of the show. So come on out and learn about hemp and the many things it can do.
Illinois State Fair
This year we partnered with the IDOA, Division of Cannabis Regulation, at the Illinois State Fair. We had many people by the tent and hemp plot asking many questions about the industrial hemp field. We were able to educate the onlookers about state regulations and the importance of industrial hemp.