Worrking with the Kentucky Department of Agriculture and the IR-4 project, I initiated the submission of the first state local needs requests to provide pesticides tools to Kentucky hemp producers to control common insect pests. Kentucky is the first state to acquire these 24(c) pesticides which helps to gain our producers an advantage. Prior to this, no pesticides had been available to produce hemp. These prepresented the first state locals needs registrations in the country. We now have 5 pesticides that producers of hemp can use to grow their crop. Each of these materials is considered  a reduced risk product.