About 4 hours north (53rd parallel), we have huge hemp fields. Was driving by one and had to stop. They were about seven feet tall in mid-summer. Grew straight up like an arrow…almost looked like a miniature bamboo forest.
It grows around me pretty well lol, Iv purchased hemp CBD in the past that’s been lightly seeded and have shucked it from nugs haven’t grown any out yet to maturity have 2 in soil right now along with Sebring’s revenge
I believe @Sebring has a pretty decent background knowledge of hemp CBD my guess is that the fields around here are used for oil this year, last year they were really tall plants in the fields so I imagine that was for fiber
On a small scale I’d think Manual labor would be the way to harvest I think the big harvesting machines are far and few in between and have a hefty price tag to them
Oh, yeah, it’s true…Everyone and their Brother’s cousin’s step-daughter’s Mother-In-Law jumped on the Hemp craze, saturated the market, not enough processors and, prices tumbled. I know many growers who just left it in the field after they cut it down…no market!!!The Big Companies already had suppliers lined up. I certainly would check with @Sebring for assistance. Good Luck, Bro, it really sounds doable for your purposes. Regardless, do take care, stay EXTRA safe and, be well…mister
Aurora has several fields close by also a processing plant close as well . Last I’d heard they combine it pack it in large carts and haul to the plant from there it gets ground and pressed into bricks from there it gets shipped to a plant in the eastern provinces for final processing and packaging .
Hers some pictures of there latest operation fencing and security cameras for the field grows there doing outdoors.
No I don’t believe they are I think they were using them to thaw the ground when putting the fence up . It’s processed very similar to grain it gets run into the combine then augured from the combine to large carts I’m thinking it’s consistently is similar if your ran buds through a food processor .
I’ve talked with a farmer that contract grows for them and he said the combine has to be cleaned often and they chip huge blocks of hash out that gets built up in the hoppers of the combine. Supposed to be hard on the combine processing it I guess that’s why older machines are used to harvest it. I’d told him this fall if he whittles a large brick of hash out to save me a couple pound block so far I haven’t seen it.
a lot of 3-4’ plants here too-- it just shows up later in the harvest 
