Hemp Seed Meal Approved for Chicken Feed, Opening New Market for Farmers
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Regulators approved hemp seed meal as feed for egg-laying chickens, opening up part of the $85B US livestock feed market to hemp farmers for the first time.
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Approval for chicken feed could give Minnesota hemp farmers more confidence to plant additional acres to achieve the scale needed for favorable hemp prices.
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Several major animal nutrition companies like Cargill and Land O'Lakes are based in Minnesota and are having conversations about using hemp for feed.
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Getting approval for one livestock use sets the stage for potentially faster review and approval for other species like horses that are not production animals.
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Removing THC testing and background checks for hemp grown just for grain, fiber or seed would lift a regulatory burden and help bring down costs.