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Missouri Department of Agriculture taking hemp rule comments in November
The Missouri Department of Agriculture wants feedback on its proposed rules for hemp production in the state. Proposed rules were posted on the department’s website three weeks early to give the public more time to comment, according to Chris Chinn, Missouri’s director of agriculture.
“The federal guidelines still have not been released yet; we hear that it’s very close, but we just felt like we needed to get our rules out the door,” Chinn told Brownfield Ag News, “so people could be thinking about what public comments they wanted to be making for that.”
Public comments will be taken from November 1st to December 1st, and if federal guidelines are issued in time, Chinn says permit applications will be available in December.
“We really want to get this program up and running so that it’s not a pilot program anymore,” said Chinn, “that it’s a program that farmers can choose to make a decision to plant if it’s something that fits well for their farming operation.”
Seed is available for the coming spring, said Chinn, but added that the state permit is required to buy it.
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