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Murray State makes history with hemp

Murray State makes history with hemp

June 28, 2019

Story by Bri Hunter Contributing writer [email protected] Murray State has teamed up with new businesses by using industrial hemp to make...

Murray State and new businesses teamed up to use industrial hemp to produce wood. (Bri Hunter/The News)

Updated: Murray State makes history with hemp

June 19, 2019

Bri Hunter Contributing Writer [email protected] Murray State makes history with hemp Murray State has teamed up with new businesses...

Sen. Mitch McConnell proposed to raise the age for purchase of tobacco products. (Photo Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)

Legislation would raise tobacco purchasing age

April 25, 2019

Cady Stribling Staff writer [email protected] Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell announced a proposal for legislation to change the purchasing...

Dean Tony Brannon hopes to partner with Fibonacci to expand hemp growth. (Mackenzie O’Donley/The News)

Murray welcomes the hemp industry

March 27, 2019

Story by Cady Stribling Staff writer [email protected] Calloway County will soon welcome its first HempWood manufacturing operation to...

Students and faculty traveled to Frankfort, Kentucky to discuss the center with Sen. Mitch McConnell. (Photo courtesy of Sen. McConnell's office)

Murray State helps grow the hemp industry

March 13, 2019

Story by Cady Stribling Staff Writer [email protected] The Board of Regents approved the Center for Agricultural Hemp on March 1. The...

Photo by McKenna Dosier/The News

Rep. James Comer pushes for hemp research

October 31, 2018

Story by James Turner, Staff writer U.S. Congressman James Comer spoke at the William Cherry Exposition Center Friday, Oct. 26, to advocate research...

Murray State Hemp-Growing Program

Murray State Hemp-Growing Program

September 23, 2015

By late May, Murray State agriculture students still were awaiting the arrival of the key ingredient to their summer hemp-growing program: the seeds.  

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Tony Brannon, dean of the Hutson School of Agriculture, said problems with this years seeds could lead to a low yielding harvest.

Low hemp harvest yield expected

September 18, 2015

Story by Lauren Epperson, Contributing writer By late May, Murray State agriculture students still were awaiting the arrival of the key ingredient...

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Murray State’s hemp crop was harvested Wednesday with good and bad results.

Hemp has successes, failures

October 24, 2014

“If you grow it, they will come,” said Chris Nelson from Marshall, Mo., standing in the remains of Murray State’s hemp crop, which was harvested...

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A small hemp plant grows on a field among ready to harvest hemp. The field, located on one of Murray State’s farms, will be harvested next week.

Hemp harvest begins after months of growth

October 17, 2014

Murray State’s engagement as hemp-growers for the Kentucky Department of Agriculture is coming to an end following months of growing the crop and weeks...

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In this Aug. 1, 2014 photo, Tony L. Brannon, Murray State University’s agriculture dean, stands for a photo near a hemp crop at the school’s research farm in Murray, Ky. Researchers and farmers are producing the state’s first legal hemp crop in generations. Hemp has turned into a political cause in the Bluegrass state.

Hemp ready for harvest

August 29, 2014

Six months after select states were granted the right to cultivate and test industrial hemp, Murray State’s first crops, grown on behalf of the Kentucky...

McConnell hopeful for hemp future

April 18, 2014

Sen. Mitch McConnell visited Murray State’s Equine Instructional Facility Tuesday to discuss the future of industrial hemp growth in Kentucky. With...

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