SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A proposal for an Oregon Hemp Commission has died in a legislative committee.
The East Oregonian reported that the proposal for a commission to raise research funds for Oregon’s hemp industry failed to pass the Joint Ways and Means Committee in June 2019.
The committee approves budget measures in each legislative session; a similar proposal was rejected by the committee two years ago.
An Oregon State University researcher says an industry-wide organization would help increase understanding of the difficulties faced by hemp growers.
The proposal to raise much-needed research money for Oregon’s fast-growing hemp industry failed to pass muster during the legislative session that just ended, but supporters say it will likely return next year.
The concept of an Oregon Hemp Commission again died in the budget-setting Joint Ways and Means Committee at the end of the 2019 legislative session, which is the same fate that befell a similar proposal two years earlier.
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Establishing a formal industry-wide organization would have helped Oregon State University better understand the top difficulties faced by hemp growers, said Jay Noller, the university’s hemp leader.
“It does set things back because that was seen as a means to collectively prioritize the research focus,” as well as provide funding for those projects, he said. “What we’re missing is a tried-and-true model of how the industry can turn the head of the research.”
Oregon already has 23 commodity commissions that collect assessment fees from farmers, ranchers and fishermen to pay for research and promotions, so it’s hardly a novel idea. Hemp production in the state, meanwhile, has surged from about 100 acres to more than 50,000 acres in the past five years.
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