West Texas hemp could be more marketable in coming year

Making industrial hemp a profitable commodity for the West Texas agriculture community is a goal for the Texas Hemp Growers Association, and it's looking more likely to happen this year as potential partnerships with area grocers and other companies emerge.

Farmers interested in growing hemp in 2020, the first year to legally grow the crop, had to work out a number of logistics, such as finding a seed that would grow in the climate, finding a buyer before investing the acres, and even trying to outguess the weather to figure out when they should plant.