As you know I was raised in Elgin and my family still lives there, so when I heard that local farmer Clarence Laub III was hoping to grow hemp it got my attention.

State officials are looking for local growers to test whether industrial hemp can be grown in North Dakota, 11 farmers are in the running including Laub in Grant County.

Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring will make the final choices and Laub looks to be a strong candidate for producing the crop.

Laub said he has been researching growing hemp for about two years and he plans to grow 10 acres of hemp on his family's farm as a way to try it out and see if it could work as a potential new crop for his customers.

Of course some people are skeptical and their will definitely  be some obstacles to producing this hemp but as they say "time will tell".

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