This upcoming growing season, hemp producers will have additional testing options through the Soil, Water and Forage testing lab in College Station. One of the main hurdles with growing hemp in the state has been getting certified testing labs to test the potency of the crop.
Larry Redmon, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension program leader for the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Bryan-College Station, leads the industrial hemp education team developed by Texas A&M AgriLife Extension.
âWhile we have one of the best soil, water and forage testing laboratories in the nation, our ability to test for various cannabinoid compounds in hemp was limited,â Redmon said. âWith this new partnership with Ionization Labs, we no longer have that limitation and look forward to helping Texas hemp producers with our new capabilities.â