Sutter County has put a temporary ban on the cultivation of hemp. This comes after the county says it lost more than $400,000 ...
Since 2019, the Sutter County Sheriff’s Department has documented almost 200 service calls related to hemp farming, and the county and agricultural department often receive complaints from residents. ...
Sutter County supervisors on Tuesday approved ... dangerous to public health and also to our reputation as a farming community.” Hemp grown in 22 greenhouses in Sutter County was destroyed ...
County Administrator Smith said that since 2019, industrial hemp farming has cost the county on average $70,000 per year and has destroyed over 500 acres because the THC level is too high or it ...
Scorned by residents for its pungent smell and deemed a nuisance to the county for its strain on resources, hemp farming has been less than popular in Sutter County. Now, farmers are weighing in ...