{"id":17573,"date":"2017-07-07T13:41:36","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T21:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/07\/07\/west-virginia-taking-applications-for-hemp-cultivation\/"},"modified":"2017-07-08T00:42:12","modified_gmt":"2017-07-08T08:42:12","slug":"west-virginia-taking-applications-for-hemp-cultivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/07\/07\/west-virginia-taking-applications-for-hemp-cultivation\/","title":{"rendered":"West Virginia taking applications for hemp cultivation"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Farmers in West Virginia can now <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/south-carolina-prepares-launch-nations-latest-hemp-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">apply to cultivate industrial hemp for commercial purposes<\/a>, making the Mountain State the latest to show an interest in growing the plant.<\/p>\n<p>The agriculture commissioner began accepting applications from would-be hemp farmers on Tuesday,\u00a0the Charleston Gazette-Mail reported.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Successful applicants would join members of the\u00a0West Virginia Farmers Association who hold 14 licenses to farm hemp for research purposes, according to the newspaper. Those original farmers, who\u00a0currently are growing 30 acres of the crop over 11 counties, now will be permitted to cultivate commercially.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hemp plants can be converted into such<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/west-virginia-taking-applications-hemp-cultivation\/\">West Virginia taking applications for hemp cultivation<\/a> is a post from: <a href=\"http:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\">Marijuana Business Daily: Financial, Legal &amp; Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nRead More: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/west-virginia-taking-applications-hemp-cultivation\/\" target=\"_blank\">West Virginia taking applications for hemp cultivation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farmers in West Virginia can now apply to cultivate industrial hemp for commercial purposes, making the Mountain State the latest to show an interest in growing the plant. The agriculture commissioner began accepting applications from would-be hemp farmers on Tuesday,\u00a0the Charleston Gazette-Mail reported. Successful applicants would join members of the\u00a0West<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/07\/07\/west-virginia-taking-applications-for-hemp-cultivation\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,5,296,297,558,456],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17574,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17573\/revisions\/17574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}