CLOSE Hemp growers and processors in Kentucky battle the plant’s connection to its more famous cousin marijuana. Chris Mayhew, cmayhew@enquirer.com COLUMBUS – Just across the Ohio border, farmers are planting hemp, a crop they hope will turn an otherwise crummy planting season into a profitable one. Soybeans, corn, wheat – it’s hard to turn a profit. But with hemp harvests fetching thousands of dollars per acre – more for hemp-derived CBD – farmers and entrepreneurs are investing in the crop. Which state border? All of them. Ohio is an island among Midwestern agricultural states, most of which allow hemp cultivation and processing. Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania and West Virginia are all growing hemp this year under a pilot program in the 2014 Farm Bill. A bill to allow hemp cultivation and hemp-derived CBD production and sales in Ohio has stalled in the House. House Speaker Larry Householder, R- Glenford, said Senate Bill 57 won’t…
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