Missouri Proposed Hemp Rule

If you feel the Missouri Hemp rules and regulations are unjust, shortsighted and unfair please submit your comments before the proposed rules become law. https://agriculture.mo.gov/proposed-rules/#proposed-rules

Missguided Missouri Hemp Rules blog post.

The misguided Missouri Hemp laws have reinforced how important it is for people to "contact and share" and become known to all Leaders in Government Agencies (in every division) letting them know how their rules and regs "help or harm" the populace. Scotty MOhemp Energy 

NOTICE TO SUBMIT COMMENTS:

1. Anyone may file a statement in support of or in opposition to this proposed rule with the Missouri Department of Agriculture,
2. ATTN: John Brunnert, PO Box 630, 1616 Missouri Boulevard, Jefferson City, MO 65102, or online at 
3. Agriculrure.Mo.Gov/proposed-rules/. 
4. To be considered, comments must be received within thirty (30) days after publication of this notice in the Missouri Register. No public hearing is scheduled.

Added by Scotty: comments can also be submitted on the Missouri Department of Agriculture Website  https://agriculture.mo.gov/proposed-rules/#proposed-rules

2 CSR 70-17.070 Industrial Hemp Registration Fees, Renewal of Registrations, and Other Fees

PURPOSE: This rule explains registration and other related fees.
(1) Upon the department’s selection of the application, the applicant will be provided an Industrial Hemp Pilot Program Grower and Handler Registration Agreement to be signed and submitted along with the applicable registration fees. Institutions of higher education are exempt from these fees.
(A) Grower registration fee: five hundred dollars ($500) plus—
1. Forty-five dollars ($45) per acre to be planted.
(B) Handler registration fee: five hundred dollars ($500) plus—
1. For processing the grain component of industrial hemp: five hundred dollars ($500);
2. For processing the fiber component of industrial hemp: five hundred dollars ($500);
3. For processing the leaf and/or floral material component of industrial hemp (hemp extract and/or CBD): three thousand dollars ($3,000); or
4. If processing more than one (1) component, the handler shall pay the fee associated with each component.
(C) Agricultural Hemp Seed Production Permit fee: five hundred dollars ($500).
(2) Registered growers must pay an annual renewal fee of forty-five dollars ($45) per acre for the second and third year of registration.
(3) Registered handlers must pay an annual renewal fee equal to the applicable processing fees listed in this section in (1)(B)1. through 4. for the second and third year of registration.
(4) Registrations are effective on the date originally issued by the department and will expire three (3) years after the date of issuance.
(5) Applications for registration renewal must be received no more than one hundred twenty (120) days and no less than thirty (30) days prior to the expiration of the three- (3-) year registration. Registered growers and handlers shall be required to satisfy all requirements for registration as if never before registered, including completion of an acceptable state and federal criminal background check. Registered growers will be considered first for subsequent three- (3-) year registration renewals.
(6) If unaccounted acres are available for production and cultivation, the department will announce an open application period on the department’s website. During this period, the department will consider new applications and registration modifications for the acreage.
(7) When destruction is required, the department will assess to the registered grower an appropriate destruction certification fee. Such fee will be commensurate with the Missouri Highway Patrol or local law enforcement agencies’ costs for certifying crop destruction.
Such fee shall be paid within thirty (30) days of receiving an invoice.
AUTHORITY: section 195.773, RSMo Supp. 2018. Original rule filed
Nov. 20, 2018.
PUBLIC COST: This proposed rule will annually cost public entities thirty-five thousand nine hundred fifty-nine dollars ($35,959) in the aggregate.
PRIVATE COST: This proposed rule will annually cost private entities one hundred seventy-nine thousand four hundred sixteen dollars ($179,416) in the aggregate.
NOTICE TO SUBMIT COMMENTS: Anyone may file a statement in support of or in opposition to this proposed rule with the Missouri
Department of Agriculture, ATTN: John Brunnert, PO Box 630, 1616 Missouri Boulevard, Jefferson City, MO 65102, or online at Agriculture.Mo.Gov/proposed-rules/. To be considered, comments must be received within thirty (30) days after publication of this notice in the
Missouri Register. Nopublic hearing is scheduled.
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Is the Missouri Government really trying to help Missouri Farmers who want to grow Hemp or just catering to big business interests?
The Fees alone I feel are enough to discourage anyone from partaking in this opportunity that will help all Missourians.
Using the example above for MOhemps plan of offering a service to process farmers Missouri grown hemp into sources of income from the following help products:

1. Clean String Fibers
2. Hemp Hurds
3. Hemp Lignin
4. Seed Separation and cleaning 
5. Biodiesel Production
6. Livestock Feed 

Will have a Fee Charge of: $1,500 before ever touching a Hemp plant. Add this costs to the required other Missouri Business Fees, Labor Costs, Required Record Keeping, and Insurance, etc.  Are more than the income potential that a 40 acre pilot study plot of land will net. 

• Handler registration fee: five hundred dollars ($500) plus—
• 1. For processing the grain component of industrial hemp: five hundred dollars ($500);
• 2. For processing the fiber component of industrial hemp: five hundred dollars ($500);

Hemp Energy Pellet New York style

MOhemp Energy blog readers have already been clued in on why and how Hemp Energy Pellets and other things mentioned in this Hemp Today Article is the most economical way to get in the Hemp Business.  

MOhemp Energy Hemp Pellet infographic example done for a Kenya Africa exploratory Hemp business plan to reverse desertification by saving trees.

Has CNY or someone working with them been reading this blog? My blog stats have previously shown lots of traffic from Toronto and New York.  Glad I could help out!

Kudos to CNY Hemp processing in New York for also recognizing how Hemp Energy Pellets are a viable solution to the growing sustainable energy business, Scotty MOhemp Energy

No Pellet stove but still want to burn Hemp Biomass here are MOhemp Energy Hemp Biomass Examples that do not require a Pellet Stove!

Not all Hemp Machines Require Millions of investment capital that many of these Hemp articles which are grabbing everyone's attention require.

Do the Financial Investors who are now spending and investing millions in the future Hemp Industry understand this?  

MOhemp has previously shared:

This inspired me to figure out a way to do what huge multi-million Hemp factory machines do in the field and per David Bovis: 

• Processing Hemp in the field could be the Holy Grail needed in the Hemp Industry. During a conversation David and I were having with Zev Paiss past President of the National Hemp Association, Mr Bovis shared this: 

Scotty has ideas in principle that would, without exaggeration, revolutionise post-harvest processing and reduce the production costs by such a margin they would become almost negligible by comparison to current processing methods common in the industry

Scotty's Hemp Farming Invention I have been working on adds one more income producing step of removing the valuable Lignin from the Hemp plant. MOhemp Blog Article Invention Link

 Scotty provides yet another example of how and why Hemp Energy Pellets are low investment and can use existing Farm Machinery to turn fields of Hemp into cash money in this 5 step process.

MOhemp Energy Field to Energy Pellets in 5 steps

The above examples are just a few ways that MOhemp Energy takes into consideration their future customers finances. Below are the reasons why:

1. Investors of Millions of Dollars will want a return on investment (ROI) plus interest. These increased costs are passed on to the end users and buyers in the products we buy. 
2. Multi-Million dollar factories are not required to decorticate or separate the various parts of the Hemp plant. 
3. The total acres needed to keep a large scale Hemp Decortication Factory in operation will number in many thousands of acres. Is it feasible to spend that amount of money when the total USA acres planted in Hemp was below 30,000? 2017 US Hemp Crop Report. 25,713. Acres of hemp grown in. 19 states.

These 3 examples above are why MOhemp Energy when in operation will have a competitive advantage over the big money investors!

Here's the Hemp Today social media shares by Scotty:

Hemp News: One processor goes online, second is planned in New York State https://t.co/KjkRKMO3ut via @hemptodaynews

— Scotty (@StLHandyMan) January 17, 2019

why not build with hemp

Article Repost: Hemp Fiberboard Poised To Replace Plywood By Monocle Man
 https://www.hcmagazine.com/hemp-fiberboard-poised-to-replace-plywood/?
by Skyler Cannabaceae
Images Added to blog post: MOhemp

Want to support legal hemp production, but not sure how? It can be as simple as choosing hemp fiberboard over plywood for your next building project. Take a few tips from the experts into consideration.

Ryan Loflin, 41, is Colorado’s hemp farming pioneer. He saw the potential in hemp last year when he used his dad’s farm in southern Colorado to grow hemp after Colorado legalized the practice. 

THC caught up with Greg Flavell last week in New Zealand where he is building houses. 

Flavell owns Hemp Technologies, a hemp building company based in Asheville, North Carolina. He points out that hemp not only saves trees, but it is more efficient.

“Trees take 10 years to grow. Hemp only takes four or five months.” Flavell said. So there it is, in a nutshell – the first advantage of hemp fiberboard over wood.
Other Great Points in article:
A Congressional Research Service (CSR) “Industrial hemp production statistics for Canada indicate that one acre of hemp yields … an average of 5,300 pounds of straw, which can be transformed into about 1,300 pounds of fiber. “

 U.S. Department of Agriculture reveals that a single acre of trees produces less than one-fourth the amount of fiber from an acre of hemp.

“The longest bundle of fibers in an old-grown Douglas Fir is three-quarters of an inch.” Tim Pate explained. “If you take a hemp plant, that bast fiber on the outside is going to be as long as that plant is tall.”

Pate was a member of the company that teamed up with Washington State University to create “medium-density fiberboard” (MDF) from hemp, so he knows his stuff.

Not only is the fiber longer than wood, but it is higher quality. C & S Specialty Building Supply, a now-defunct Oregon-based business that included Pate, Bill Conde, Dave Seber and Barry Davis, brought the idea to a Washington State University researcher named Paul Maulberg. Together they created a hemp MDF prototype that met or exceeded all tests.

“If you can find a non-toxic way to create building materials, you could win a Nobel Peace Prize.” Pate said. The MDF project closed in on that goal, showing just how well non-toxic hemp was suited for building.

“That fiber doesn’t break down after just a few seconds,” he said, referring to hemp fiber in a steam exploder. This is important because the extraction process is used to bond the strong hemp fiber with other materials to create composite materials such as hemp MDF.

The hemp fiberboard created at WSU proved in tests to be stronger than steel and a report issued by the Boulder Hemp Initiative Project shows that not only does hemp stand up to force, but heat and water as well.

“Hemp hurds can be pressed and injected with phenolic resin to make a particle board that is resistant to fire and water,” Pate said. “The board also makes a good insulation and thermal barrier.”

With all of these benefits, why not build with hemp?

NC Kenaf Plant Fire

January 11, 2019 01:11PM
FRANKLIN CO., N.C. (WTVD) -- A large warehouse full of Kenaf, a fiber plant, caught fire Friday. The warehouse is located on Highway 98 near Bunn, North Carolina.

Will update when more information becomes available.

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Attorneys Say Semi Stopped In Pawhuska Carried Legal Hemp

"Who in their right mind would be importing marijuana into Colorado? It just doesn't pass the sniff test to be quite candid," Robison



Attorneys Say Semi Stopped In Pawhuska Carried Legal Hemp: Attorneys are working to clear the names of four men arrested in Pawhuska for transporting what police believed to be thousands of pounds of marijuana.

CannabisOil Feline Success Story

A cat, who almost lost all of its nine lives after developing cancer, is purring again due to cannabis oil.

cannabis oil treatment two days, the cat's tumour shrunk and he started gaining weight  

Ginge was close to being put down after developing a large tumour on his paw

He had also suffered two strokes, an enlarged liver and significant weight loss 

Vets prescribed Ginge antibiotics and steroids, but neither seemed to work

His owner Jacek Matusiak started adding five drops of the oil to Ginge's food

Within just two days, the cat's tumour shrunk and he started gaining weight  

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