Acreage down, but Colorado not done with hemp

Agricultural production may be way down from its 2019 heyday, but Colorado isn’t done with hemp.

“Obviously we were a state that was a very early adopter, and our producers jumped in headfirst,” said Dawn Thilmany, a professor of Ag and Resource Economics at Colorado State University and co-director of the CSU Regional Economic Development Institute.

“We had a product that was prohibited for that long, so the supply chain went away,” said Thilmany about the 1937 law that made both hemp and marijuana illegal. But Thilmany noted that the door is still open for hemp products other than CBD oil, such…