Hemp as a Modern U.S. Commodity Crop provides an overview of industrial hemp as an agronomic crop in western cropping systems. Emphasis is given to the long history of hemp, mostly in the United States, and to current production issues pertinent in the US as well as Europe and Canada. There are many questions still to be answered  starting with those to be addressed by the most basic classical plant breeding techniques and continuing to the most modern analytical techniques of plant tissues and genetics.
Table of Contents
A Preface to a Modern View of Industrial Hemp as a U.S. Commodity Crop v
Chapter 1: The History of Hemp 1
Chapter 2: Hemp Grain 26
Chapter 3: Hemp Fibers 37
Chapter 4: Hemp Agronomy - Grain and Fiber Production 58
Chapter 5: Cannabinoids-Human Physiology and Agronomic Principles for Production 73
Chapter 6: Hemp Genetics and Genomics 94
Chapter 7: Economic Issues and Perspectives for Industrial Hemp 109
Epilogue 122
