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Developing Metrics For Novel Value-Added Products: The Case Of Hemp In Vermont, Jane M. Kolodinsky, Heather M. Darby, Steven Kostell, Tyler Mark, Eric D. Roy, Eric Bishop Von Wettberg, Hannah Lacasse, Giovanna Sassi, Weiwei Wang
Developing Metrics For Novel Value-Added Products: The Case Of Hemp In Vermont, Jane M. Kolodinsky, Heather M. Darby, Steven Kostell, Tyler Mark, Eric D. Roy, Eric Bishop Von Wettberg, Hannah Lacasse, Giovanna Sassi, Weiwei Wang
USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Center
Vermont Farm to Plate 2020 identifies hemp as one of ten emergent agricultural products critical for Vermont’s future and has made recommendations for investments in hemp research, education, feasibility, and innovation programs. These investments are essential to develop niche food, feed, fiber, and industrial products, professionals, and markets that go “beyond CBD” (VFP, 2020).
This project develops indicators for an important, value added budding crop in Vermont: hemp. For the purposes of this white paper, indicators are “a way to measure, indicate or point to with more or less exactness,” or “something used to show the condition of a system” …