First industrial hemp plant opens in Kansas

Melissa Nelson co-owner of South Bend Industrial Hemp shows off a new piece of equipment in their Great Bend factory.

 

 Oil isn’t the only industry from which clothes and everyday things we use are manufactured. So is the industrial hemp industry and its first hemp plant has opened in Kansas.

Great Bend is the site of the South Bend Industrial Hemp operation which is taking advantage of more and more of the crop being produced by area farmers.

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