At $248M, Oregon is No. 1 in U.S. new commodity category

The state’s young hemp sector, battered though it might be, is the most valuable in the U.S., according to the first official national hemp report.

PORTLAND, Ore. — The state’s young hemp sector, battered though it might be, is the most valuable in the United States, according to the first official national hemp report.

The Oregon crop was worth about $248 million in 2021, one-third of the U.S. total of $752 million that was broken down by state, the Department of Agriculture data revealed. California was a distant second, at $72 million.

Those figures include the biggest hemp segment, “floral hemp” — hemp used

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