Hemp, as a food, fiber and oil crop, has a huge potential of bringing a positive economic benefit to Nebraska’s agricultural industry, according to two speakers who spoke Monday at the Nebraska Independent Crop Consultant Association’s meeting in Grand Island.
An Omaha state senator said Tuesday that he plans to stop efforts this year aimed at ensuring that people buying CBD, or cannabidiol, products get what they pay for.
Nebraska farmers and producers now have the opportunity to apply for a hemp license, and the Nebraska Hemp Industries Association said they’re here to help.
NELIGH, Neb. — After a successful 2019, educating over 700 farmers at five hemp forums in Clatonia, David City, Pilger, York and Syracuse, Midwest Hemp Forum is proud to announce the first event of 2020, the upcoming Neligh Hemp Farmers Forum on Feb. 21 hosted by the Neligh Office of Economic Development and Antelope County Ag Society.
A year has passed since President Trump signed the 2018 Farm Bill, which legalized the cultivation of industrial and CBD-rich hemp. This legislative breakthrough set the stage for the first largescale hemp harvest in the United States since the Second World War.
2019 has been a whirlwind of a year for us and it looks like we will ve just as active coming into the new decade. This year we’ve traveled to 34 various agricultural conferences across 19 different states and territories.
One of the 176 applicants seeking a license to grow hemp for Nebraska’s research program this year was Jacob Bish, the head of Public relations at Bish Enterprises and Hemp Harvest Works. Bish…
PHOENIX, Oct. 30, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — The Hemp Industries Association® (HIA®) announces a diverse lineup of national sponsors and hemp industry leaders for the 26th annual Hemp Industries Association Conference…
From planters to harvesters and everything in between, the No-Till Farmer staff found a lot of interesting new products for producers at the summer farm shows.
Andy Bish grew up working in the agricultural equipment business that his grandfather formed in 1976. Applying the Bish Enterprises Mission to help solve complicated issues farmers face with east…
GILTNER, NEB. — Hemp could be a game changer in rural America, but those trying to expand this budding industry say banking, insurance, and advertising remain off-limits, and that’s…
Bish Enterprises in Giltner, Neb., has been building specialty farm equipment since the late 1970’s and has been featured in FARM SHOW many times…
Its “Hemp is Legal” campaign was launched in May in which the group, including the likes of Hoban Law Group, Bluebird Botanicals and Bish Enterprises, called out Facebook for having strict advertising policies preventing hemp…
A Nebraska farm equipment dealer who did not receive a state license to grow hemp under a new law has sued the state Department of Agriculture and its…
PILGER — A search for new opportunities led Loraine and Gene Ott to the Cooper Family Community Center in Pilger on Friday. They weren’t alone. The place was packed. “The cattle market’s down,” she said. “We need another…
Andrew interviews with Joy Beckerman about the hemp industries equipment needs. He also talks about some of the challenges that the industry faces even within his home state Nebraska.
We speak with Andrew Bish about the politics of hemp in Nebraska and Bish Enterprises’s new hemp harvesting technologies.
“It’s time for the hemp industry to step up and say: enough of the b******t!” – Morris Beegle on discrimination against the industry
GILTNER, Neb. —If you believe the hemp hype, it could be the nation’s next cash crop. Some of the cheapest seeds are selling for $1 a piece. “It costs more than gold by weight right now,” explained Andrew Bish…
Gov. Pete Ricketts and First Lady Susanne Shore want to recognize Nebraskans who played a role in the recovery from the bomb cyclone that struck the state…
The first industrial hemp crop planted in Nebraska since the 1950s was hand-sown Sunday evening in a field near Giltner. Brothers Andrew and Jacob Bish, along with Andrew’s daughter, Eliana, planted two test plots of Nebraska…
Nebraska’s hemp farming act has passed, is signed and delivered. With an emergency clause, it’s already in effect.