Hemp workshop designed to encourage additional production

Lamont County will host a second Hemp Producer Workshop this year promising to showcase more information for farmers and delve into the value-added opportunities that come from producing the crop.

The workshop will be held at the Lamont Hall, Feb. 13, beginning at 9:30 and last most of the day.

“The whole premise is part of a regional hemp strategy,” said Lamont Economic Development Officer, Jim Newman. “We have a decortation facility in Bruderheim and another is planned for Vegreville.

“So we see benefits for the County on both the agricultural and industrial side,” he explained.

“Last year,” said Agricultural Fieldman Terry Eleniak. “We had the workshop in St. Michael. The hemp business was unknown then and people were not enthusiastic, but now we have some decortation plants and there is a much better opportunity.”

Newman said the Lamont County area is working to become the largest hemp producing area in the country.

Eleniak said producers didn’t have a great understanding of where the seed comes from, how they grew or marketed it last year.

“As a result there wasn’t hemp grown in the county last year,” he said.

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Suddenly, he said, hemp is being produced and people are seeing opportunities.

Eleniak said one farm in Two Hills County had 4,000 acres of hemp under production last year.

“If we put a spotlight on this region with two decortation facilities,” said Newman. “Then we can make hemp a value-added cluster in this region.”

He said there are opportunities then for both growing, but also for producing hemp products.

“That’s why this workshop is titled, ‘It all starts with the Farmer’.”

The pair said the workshop will key on growing hemp on the different varieties of seed available and then provide information on equipment available for harvesting, and different types of product manufacturing available.

Jan Slaski of InnoTech Alberta will present on the growing side of hemp. His talk generally details different strains of hemp and what regions they are best suited for along with information on watering, fertilizing and harvesting.

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John Mather