Hemp Harvest Works in the News

With the legalization of hemp as a crop for farmers in the 2018 Farm Bill, Nebraska needs to get on board the hemp bandwagon and allow its farmers to…

The Kansas farmers were joined on the rainy Saturday morning by counterparts from Missouri, Oklahoma, Colorado and Nebraska, as well as CBD oil business owners, producers and…

I recently wrote and published an open letter, signed by many leading stakeholders in the hemp industry, about significant flaws in the proposed…

MINDEN — A Nebraska Hemp Education Experience, a program about growing industrial hemp, will be presented from 9 a.m.-noon Tuesday…

For some, it’s Wyoming’s next big industry. For others, it’s a solution for small, independent farmers looking to take the power back from the mega-growers…

The top 100 people you should know in the hemp industry.

PHOENIX, May 23, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Hemp Industries Association® (HIA®), in association with Hoban Law Group, Bluebird Botanicals, and Bish Enterprises…

Nebraska’s hemp farming act has passed, is signed and delivered. With an emergency clause, it’s already in effect.

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…

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…

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…

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

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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, NEBRASKA – “This is a first for the American hemp market,” said Andrew Bish standing beneath a John Deere 630F Platform Header lifted 9’ in the air, “and it will dramatically lower the barrier of entry into the hemp industry.”

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…