>>19393384
>Anon wanted to be an off grid farmer…
>Its not as easy as one would think…
I feel you Anon. I grew up on a tobacco farm in rural NC. I also think the whole corporate push of CBD products in recent years and the states opening up hemp farming was in part, a shiny carrot attempt to get former tobacco farmers in the Carolinas and other states to stake their entire life savings and land on a promise of a huge profit payout coming from the 2019 hemp CBD harvest, which was timed perfectly to coincide with the corporate engineered bankruptcy of 5 Whole Foods grocery chains and their produce distributors from small family farms in the first week of February 2020, just before the GLOBAL COVID Op & shutdowns. Many farmers lost everything when their crops were burned if their hemp tested over the insanely arbitrary cut off of 0.3% d9 THC prior to harvest and then the CBD prices collapsed when the market became flooded with it.
Fortunately, a loophole in the 2018 hemp farm bill that legalized a number of trace cannabinoids allowed innovators to develop trade secret extraction protocols employing acidic gamma phase aluminum oxide as a desiccant to inadvertently isomerize CBD into other psychoactive cannabinoids like delta 8 THC, and thus, saving many from complete finacial wipeout.
Now you know why suicide among farmers is now higher than war hardened military veterans.
My plan is to retire on our old family farm 100% off grid, but focus first on regenerative farming to feed my family first and then slowly scale up to bring in a steady income. I also plan to grow multifunctional experimental crops like chia, bamboo, and high CBD hemp seed crops for food and feed, something I haven’t seen any US hemp farmers doing.
Most hemp seed food products on the US market come from Canadian ditchweed hemp strains adapted to fiber markets. I expect the high CBD HEMP hybrids to produce massive seed production with superior protein, mineral, and omega3 fatty acid profiles.
As hemp crop experiments @ UFlorida have shown, it’s damn near impossible to grow high grade hemp in Florida that doesn’t exceed the arbitrary 0.3 % d9THC cut off, a number the French concocted decades ago to monopolize market share. The reason being is that cannabinoids are the cannabis plants primary oxidative defense mechanism when grown in harsher tropical environments closer to the equator where higher heat, humidity and rain fall invite a lot of pests and molds.
If the damn plant was just legalized outright, you would see a massive proliferation of novel hemp strains and market potentials coming from the southern states.