When and how do I plant hemp?

Plant in the spring window for your region and for the seed in the bag. HFGA's spring planting guide is the field playbook they point farmers to. Heartland also talks about a winter-wheat double-crop window on ground that would otherwise sit. rechem will tell you which of those fits the lot you bought. A single calendar date for every state would be a guess.

The seed itself is How do I get hemp seed?. The seedbed under the drill is How do I prepare a field for hemp?.

The drill you already own

HFGA says industrial hemp is planted with the grain drills farms already own. You do not need a custom planter to start. They like a low-tillage disc for the seedbed, and they allow a chisel plow or no-till if that is how you farm.

Wide enough for the drill you have, and shallow enough for a small seed. The only row width HFGA publishes from its own community is 7–10 inches for fiber, paired with a 40–50 pound seeding rate. Confirm both with rechem and with the buyer. Depth is part of that conversation, not a number this page is willing to fake.

The soil temperature is the one the seed lot was sold for. It is not printed as one number on the HFGA pages this note uses. If the corn drill is going into a cold, wet field, call rechem before hemp follows it in.

An even stand

Certified seed, a seedbed that is not torn up, and chemistry on the seed before it is asked to emerge alone. That last piece is rechem's seed treatment: organic chemistry so the plant is prepared when it hits the row. The note for that pass is Organic seed and planting chemistry. Gaps in a fiber stand become thin bast. Gaps in a grain stand become missing heads.