Big Sandy farmer experiments with hemp

Big Sandy organic farmer and entrepreneur Bob Quinn is one of 14 Montanans taking advantage of the state's brand-new hemp-growing law by planting six acres of the previously illegal crop.

This was the first year Montana's Hemp Pilot Program was allowed under the Department of Agriculture's 2014 Farm Bill. Quinn and son-in-law Andrew Long, who is in charge of the project, planted all three of the permissible types of hemp - the CFX-1, CFX-2 and CRS-1 - in June and expect to harvest sometime in September. It depends on how much sunlight the crop receives, Long said, as hemp is a photo-sensit...