MU researchers have extensively evaluated sunn hemp as an option. Sunn hemp is a summer annual legume growing as tall as 6 feet, producing a large cluster of nutritious leaves from a single stem.

That would be Sunn Hemp – a leguminous cover crop that adds organic matter and nutrients to the soil during the fallow times of the year. Annual cover crops are used on our farmlands during the ...

For years, the Great Godfrey Maze had been a Halloween corn maze. This year, it’s a maze cut into a field of sunn hemp. “I don’t know what it is. It caught me off guard. I thought it was ...

Although reduced rainfall resulted in lower hemp biomass yields in 2006, sunn hemp's HHV for both study years was 4 to 5 percent greater than the HHV of cowpeas. Results from the study were ...

Scientists have found that a new legume — called sunn hemp — may reduce the impact of reniform nematodes. For almost a century, farmers in the Dawson Valley have been successfully growing ...

Sunn hemp cover crop incorporated before solarization reduces this negative effect, while the addition of compost, vermicompost and mulch can increase number of beneficial organisms.

Starting this autumn, it’s getting a new twist. The traditional corn maze will switch to a Sunn hemp design this fall, using cannabis-made crops for the first time since it opened in 1999.

GODFREY — The Great Godfrey Maze, this year grown with sunn hemp instead of corn, has come to full bloom with the opening day of the maze set for Friday, Sept. 16. Following a COVID-19 ...

Graham said ACES doesn’t have many solutions ready to roll out, but noted one farmer in Cherokee County produced positive results with planting sunn hemp as a deer buffer. Eddie McGriff ...