Morning Magazine Podcast Monday September 16, 2019

Hemp is taking the Colorado agriculture industry by storm and gaining a reputation as a highly valuable, supposedly drought tolerant cash crop. But is the plant really as ideal for a state facing severe water scarcity as it’s being made out to be? Or is the outside-the-box thinking hemp is inspiring really behind hemp’s water needs and viability in the west? KGNU’s Hannah Leigh Myers spoke with researchers and visited multiple hemp grows in northeast Colorado to try to find out as part of our ongoing water series, Connecting the Drops.

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