Here is what it costs to grow hemp for fiber.
For more income per acre, add grain. For even more, shell and package it. For even more, brand it and make it a consumer packaged food.
Do that and your fibrous stalks are “free.”
Grain kept hemp farmers alive during the dark ages and has the most consumers, retailers, sales, profits, and acres of any legal hemp product.
That the U.S. doesn’t yet have thousands of acres in grain centered around a regional processing co-op making branded foods for national and international distribution is not surprising: “Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted.” (Churchill)
Hemp stalk production costs in The Netherlands, Euros per Hectare. 2024. Download report from Wageningen University (NL) at: https://edepot.wur.nl/644008
