Australian industrial hemp growers reap benefits as knowledge improves

South Australia’s only hemp processor credits improving knowledge in agronomy for his highest seed yield yet.

Bordertown-based Mick Andersen said this season’s average yield was 1.2 tonnes per hectare, an increase from 500 kilograms per hectare three seasons ago, following the legalisation of edible hemp products in 2017.

“This year we had a crop that went 2.3 tonne per hectare,” he said.