KZMU News: Thursday September 19, 2019

Hemp is taking the Colorado agriculture industry by storm and gaining a reputation as a highly valuable, supposedly drought tolerant cash crop. But is the plant really as ideal for a state facing severe water scarcity as it’s being made out to be? Or is the outside-the-box thinking hemp is inspiring really behind hemp’s water needs and viability in the west? Our partners at KGNU spoke with researchers and visited multiple hemp grows in Colorado to try to find out.

[Photo: David Lebsock examines one of the hemp plants they are growing for CBD on his thousand-acre farm in Sterling, Colorado. Credit KGNU]