Industrial Hemp in the United States: Definition and History

Mark Tancig, Christine Kelly-Begazo, Navdeep Kaur, Lakesh K. Sharma, and Zachary Brym

Release Date: 9/16/2021

Reviewed At: 1/15/2025

DOI: 10.32473/edis-ag458-2021

Agriculture

Abstract

This publication provides information about industrial hemp, its origins, and its cultivation. Written by Mark Tancig, Christine Kelly-Begazo, Navdeep Kaur, Lakesh K. Sharma, and Zachary Brym, and published by the UF/IFAS Agronomy Department, September 2021.

About this Publication

This document is SS-AGR-457, one of a series of the Department of Agronomy, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date September 2021. Visit the EDIS website at https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu for the currently supported version of this publication.

About the Authors

Mark Tancig, commercial/residential horticulture Extension agent, UF/IFAS Extension Leon County; Christine Kelly-Begazo, county Extension director and Extension agent III, M.S., UF/IFAS Extension Indian River County; Navdeep Kaur, M.S. student, Department of Soil and Water Sciences; Lakesh K. Sharma, assistant professor, soil fertility and sustainable agriculture, Department of Soil and Water Sciences; and Zachary Brym, assistant professor, agroecology, Agronomy Department, UF/IFAS Tropical Research and Education Center, Homestead, FL; UF/IFAS Extension, Gainesville, FL 32611.