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Podcast: People In The Know
Episode: Growing Industrial Hemp in Kansas
Description: This story originated on site, near Great Bend, Kansas. I spent two days with three members of Circle K Farming Partnership and South Bend Industrial Hemp.
Melissa Nelson-Baldwin is a thirty-two year old dynamo. She is a research scientist and does work for the agri-chemical industry in proving their products. She also is part of a traditional family farming business raising wheat, corn, soybeans and milo.
Since hemp became a legal crop to grow in 2018, she, Aaron, her husband and Richard, her brother-in-law, have examined this historic plant as a rotational crop and as a manu...