I am Kevin Pilarski, and I am the Chief Commercial Officer for Revolution Enterprise a vertically integrated cannabis company based in IL.
We thank the USDA for its efforts in helping America and its farmers to compete with other global farmers and competing countries in insuring America can dominate with this crop as it has with other crops like corn, soybeans and wheat.
We would appreciate clarification from the USDA regarding the 2018 Farm Bill and the 2019 planting season for those states that have an Industrial Hemp Plan completed.
Will those states be allowed to grow if USDA has no plans to approve those plans prior to the 2019 planting season?
If the USDA falls back on the 2014 Farm Bill as the legislative mandate, will acres planning to be planted for hemp in 2019 be required to be part of a University research program as stated in the 2014 Farm bill.