Ung Family Farms is a beautiful 11 acre hemp farm located in Payson, Utah. The farm currently grows four strains of hemp; Suver Haze, Mountain Mango, T1, and Berry Blossom. Their crop is organically grown, and the plants are impressively full this fall after only two years in operation.
At present, the family of farms are harvesting a crop they’ve been growing since May of this year. You can tell these growers know what they’re doing by the abundance of skunky smells they are producing, and looking up close, the buds appear as good as any of the medical or recreational greens found in the surrounding market. If you didn’t know any better, it would be easy to believe these plants were the other stuff.
All hemp gets hung to dry and cure after harvest before it can be made into In Motion CBD products that Trevor Ung and his family make. All of this is truly impressive because everything on the farm is created by hand without added fertilizers.
Ung is the main man behind the operation, but says he couldn’t do it without the help of all his friends and family. He is from Payson, Utah, but he spent many years in Denver, Colorado where he worked on medical and recreational cannabis grows. Having molding his growing skills he returned home to Utah.
Ung Family Farms was among the first applicants granted a license to cultivate hemp in Utah, through the state’s Industrial Hemp Program, and the rest is now history. Farmers like the Ung family and their crew represent an emerging generation of new American farmers now growing hemp instead of more mainstream crops.
The farms’ land was previously used to grow Alfalfa. Much of the Utah’s alfalfa is shipped to China, making hemp a more sensible choice, as it is both more useful and sustainable crop, which seems to be an all-around win for Utah farmers.
“The Utah Department of Agriculture does not allow Utah farmers to sell hemp flowers in raw form directly to consumers, yet the same products from other states are being sold here,” said Ung. “This leaves Utah farmers at a disadvantage compared to farmers from other states.”
Many in the industry feel Utah needs to support its farms, like the Ung family by removing barriers that put Utah hemp growers at a disadvantage to outside growers. For example, the state will not approve many CBD products grown by Utah farmers such as hemp leaves and hemp-infused honey. These are great products with high medicinal value, which Utah’s farmers should be allowed to sell to consumers.
Furthermore, there are many Utah farmers who would like to grow cannabis for the medical market but the state has yet issued only eight licenses, many to out-of-state companies. Perhaps if the state issued medical cannabis cultivation licenses to farming families such as the Ungs, it would support our farmers and strengthen our economy.
Ung Family Farms grows amazing, high-quality hemp products just as more and more farmers are following in their footsteps by making the switch to this smarter crop. Hopefully, Utah will soon adopt more supportive policies to ensure the next generation of farmers and our economy continue to thrive.
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