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Black hemp farmers try to break more ground in industry

A small fraction of the country’s hemp farmers is Black. One family in Missouri is trying to establish the state’s first Black-owned industrial hemp site that could open doors for other Black hemp farmers across the country.

Corinne Ruff of Harvest Public Media reports.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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