Can Argentina Solve Hemp's Seed Problem?

We've been covering industrial hemp on the podcast for eight years now, and the story of farmers getting bad seed is so common it barely feels like news anymore. It's just accepted — low germination rates, inconsistent genetics and fields that never quite come in the way they should. But this is not OK. This is not how you grow an industry. If hemp is going to scale as a commodity crop, then it must behave like one and right now, it doesn't. So when I was invited to Argentina to see a company building the SOPs for large-scale seed multiplication alongside one of the world's top hemp geneticists—working in the same regions where companies like Syngenta and Bayer produce their seed, alongside one of the world's top hemp geneticists — I went. This is an effort to solve the problem at its root. And it's happening in a place with a much deeper story than we expected. Because once you start to understand what was built there before, the future of hemp starts to look very different. See Photos From Eric Hurlock's Trip to Argentina https://www.lancasterfarming.com/hemp-podcast-cries-for-me-argentina-photos/collection_4268a512-f387-4542-9c6c-09adf37df93f.html Learn More Ananda Pampa anandapampa.com Davis Hemp Farms davishempfarms.com/about/ Parque Steverlynck https://parquesteverlynck.com.ar/ Thanks to Our Sponsors! Commonwealth Denim commonwealthdenim.com Tuscarora Mills tuscaroramills.com Canna Markets Group cannamarketsgroup.com