According to a recent analysis, over half of all hemp grown legally in the United States is grown in California.
According to an MJBizDaily analysis of the recent Census of Agriculture report released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, California produced 56% of all U.S. hemp flower throughout 2022, which is used for a variety of purposes including to extract CBD and other cannabinoids.
In a distant second was Kentucky, which grows around 16% of all hemp grown in the US, followed by Oregon with 6% and Colorado with 4%.
Rounding out the top 10 is Texas, North Carolina, Michigan, Minnesota, Washington and Indiana:
In California, Alameda County harvested more hemp flower than any other U.S. county, with 5.5 million pounds. Hemp farms in California’s Central Valley produced nearly 20% of domestically grown hemp.
Tulare County, California came a very distant second with 600,000 pounds produced, followed by Saguache County, Colorado with 360,000 pounds and Jackson County, Oregon with 204,000 pounds of hemp produced.
According to the USDA, more than 11 million pounds of hemp flower was produced in 2022 by 1,800 American farms covering about 10,500 acres.
Hemp production was legalized in 2018 via a federal farm bill. The law allows farmers to grow hemp with up to 0.3% THC.
Data used for this analysis was released in the USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture, the first one published since hemp was legalized.
