Until the 2018 Farm Bill, hemp-breeding research in the United States was limited by hemp’s legal status. As a result, hemp growers have been largely limited to varieties of hemp
The Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research’s (FFAR) Hemp Research Consortium provided two grants totaling $1.17 million to Cornell University to support a long-term breeding program to cultivate hemp for grain, fiber and CBD production in U.S. growing regions.