General Discussion

However, it's already outgrown the infrastructure needed to process it. Farmers all want to grow CBD hemp, as that's where the money is, but the amount needed to fill that demand will never show hemp to reach beyond a small niche crop. We would need some large-scale development in usage of the fiber to make it viable.
The real place farmers need to focus their lobbying efforts, IMO, is to push for compensation for changing their practices to help combat climate change. Multi- species cover crops to sequester carbon, grazed down by cattle or sheep that aren't ever put in a feedlot to perpetuate this "king corn" system we have now, could help agriculture be part of the solution. Such a system reduces tillage, allowing more carbon sinking in the soil. It reduces heavy usage of synthetic nitrogen, a huge contributor to climate change on its own. It would be a huge undertaking to change the food production system so fundamentally, but if you can make it lucrative for the stakeholders there's at least a chance.