Kentucky's New Cash Crop?
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-- Mike Fenwick of member station WUKY reports that a brewing company in Kentucky has found another use for hemp, incorporating it in its brewing process to create a new light tasting beer. They say it's a natural substitute or addition to its botanical cousin... hops. It's part of an effort by Kentucky businesses and farmers to find innovative uses for industrial hemp as an alternative cash crop to tobacco which has an uncertain future.
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