These wishing to develop and course of hemp in Minnesota in 2024 should apply for a license with the Minnesota Division of Agriculture (MDA) by April 30. Up to now, roughly 113 folks have utilized for an MDA license. A license from MDA is required for people and corporations.
Functions have to be submitted by April 30, 2024, and a license is legitimate for the 2024 calendar yr.
The applying might be discovered on the MDA web site. Together with the net type, first-time candidates and approved representatives might want to submit fingerprints and cross a prison background examine. These licenses are just for rising and processing industrial hemp. The hemp grower or processor software shouldn’t be for rising or promoting grownup or medicinal hashish. The applying can also be not meant for the sale of cannabinoid merchandise derived from hemp. Hashish info for adults might be discovered on the web site of the Workplace of Hashish Administration. Info associated to medical hashish and hemp-derived cannabinoid merchandise might be discovered on the Minnesota Division of Well being web site.
Producers and processors ought to pay attention to the next by 2024:
- All approved representatives designated by the applicant should cross a prison background examine previous to the issuance of a license.
- Each batch of hemp grown requires regulatory THC testing earlier than harvest. Every official regulatory pattern collected by the MDA will value $100.
- The MDA licenses processors who deal with uncooked hemp and initially course of it by extraction, decortication, devitalization, crushing or packaging, and the division continues random inspections of processor premises.
- License charges will stay the identical. The minimal value of a grower's license is $400. The processing license is a minimal of $500.
Questions on MDA's industrial hemp program ought to be despatched to hemp.mda@state.mn.us or 651-201-6600.
Background
Industrial hemp and marijuana are each forms of the identical plant, Hashish sativa. They differ within the stage of focus of the psychoactive compound tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) within the plant. Hemp has lower than 0.3% THC, and ranges above which can be thought-about marijuana.
Minnesota operated below a hemp pilot program from 2016 to 2020. In 2021, this system started working below a brand new federally accredited state plan governing manufacturing and regulation.
| License and Acreage | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Complete candidates | 7 | 47 | 65 | 505 | 586 | 459 | 299 | 312 |
| Licensed Growers | 6 | 33 | 43 | 353 | 461 | 348 | 240 | 230 |
| Licensed Processors – Processing solely | 0 | 5 | 8 | 49 | 88 | 77 | 53 | 56 |
| Acres outdoor planted | 38 | 1.202 | 711 | 7,353 | 4,690 | 2,830 | 375 | 834 |
| Planted Indoor Sq. Toes | 0 | 0 | 54,618 | 403.304 | 1,353,489 | 318,713 | 122,040 | 68,771 |
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Contact Media
Brittany Raveill, MDA Communications
651-201-6131
Brittany.Raveill@state.mn.us
