![]() (Nina Riggio, Special to The Colorado Sun)įor a long time, it was unclear how the USDA and FDA would approve and monitor products manufactured from the crop, which was previously considered a controlled substance. Shi Farms workers use an old tractor to move some of the 2,000 hemp plants growing in research greenhouses in Pueblo in July. The organization works with taxpayer dollars, and didn’t want to fund anything in a legal gray area. Shaw says PEDCO is treating hemp just like other industry it courts, from aerospace to wind energy, but the crop’s nebulous federal status has slowed down the process. And so we started looking at and followed the market, the industry for the last four or five years, looking at what would be the best opportunities.” “All the 20,000 uses of it got us very excited about it. “The industrial side of hemp is what really got us intrigued and excited,” Shaw says. President Jeffrey Shaw says hemp’s many uses are what got his organization interested. ![]() With both consumer and manufacturing potential, everything from CBD sodas to construction materials, hemp has the potential to bring jobs and cash into communities. ![]() Pueblo had all of those things - and wanted his business.Įver since the 2018 Farm Bill reclassified hemp as an ordinary agricultural commodity, cities and states across the country have been scrambling to hang the open-for-business sign for the new industry. He needed cheap land, plenty of water and infrastructure for distribution. PUEBLO - In 2016, Steve Turetsky was looking to get into hemp, scouting around Colorado for the right place to build the farm he would use to feed the growing market for CBD. ![]()
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