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Industrial Hemp Research

Author: Jessica Barnes

Major Program: Soils

A producer called asking if any of the tobacco diseases that we are familiar with will transfer or contaminate industrial hemp if planted following a tobacco crop.  He was specifically concerned with Black Shank in tobacco transferring or infecting industrial hemp.  I reached out to Nicole Gauthier to see if she knew if there was any correlation between heavily infested Black Shank fields and diseased hemp.  She was unaware of any research that had been done in this area to prove

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