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Illinois hemp farmers leverage high risk for high profit potential Illinois hemp farmers leverage high risk for high profit potential

Illinois hemp farmers leverage high risk for high profit potential

Trent Lawrence and his wife, Jami, work a 26-acre farm outside of Delavan. For the past several years, they’ve been growing organic peppers, tomatoes and a variety of other specialty crops. But this year, they’re starting a new crop that became legal in Illinois only earlier this year, industrial hemp.

Pritzker signs budget bill, with revenue package to pay for it Pritzker signs budget bill, with revenue package to pay for it

Pritzker signs budget bill, with revenue package to pay for it

Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a new, $40.1 billion state budget bill into law Wednesday, along a revenue package to pay for it and a bill that would establish a new, multi-bracket income tax structure in Illinois, provided voters approve a constitutional amendment allowing it in the 2020 elections.

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