Thanks, guys. The demand for feminized seeds was tremendous this past spring at $1 per seed. Most companies required several thousand seeds as a minimum order, and price breaks for quantity were minimal. Some farmers grow from rooted cuttings, which can sell for up to $4 apiece, and they are tiny, in 105 cell trays. That's $200 of plants in one square foot. Even worse, they often come infested with bugs, or carrying insect or mite damage.
One plant is capable of making thousands of seeds, so my little half acre has a lot of potential.
And yeah, Worth, the police are put in a difficult spot in that it takes a lab test to tell legal hemp from illegal cannabis. South Carolina just recently ordered all smokeable hemp to be removed from store shelves, at the request of their state police. I can say from the few other hemp farmers that I have met, it takes a little money and also some farmland in order to get started, and I think that does screen out people who might abuse the law.
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