On this week’s edition of the Access Hour, we bring you a special lecture on Hemp presented on March 18th as part of UofL's McConnell Center lecture series. The talk was given by Dr. D.W. Williams, Director of the Robinson Center for Appalachian Resource Sustainability and professor of agronomy in the University of Kentucky’s Department of Plant and Soils Science. His work is focused on enhancing the lives of the people of Appalachia and furthering industrial hemp research. His March 18th talk on campus was entitled "Kentucky's past and future: Health and industrial hemp”.

More information is available at: https://hemp.ca.uky.edu/

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