The president of the Minnesota Industrial Hemp Association is frustrated by the lack of COVID relief for the emerging hemp industry.
Dave Ladd says the first two aid packages did not provide direct assistance to hemp producers or make them eligible for the Paycheck Protection Program eligibility.
“It’s an industry that’s new, so how do you handle production history? How do you verify a loss when you really don’t have five years of baseline data (and) that sort of thing.
