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Sutter County supervisors adopt ordinance banning industrial hemp cultivation countywide
Summary
After a public hearing and two public speakers, the Sutter County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to adopt an ordinance that will prohibit industrial hemp cultivation and processing in unincorporated Sutter County; staff cited prior moratoria, documented service calls, and a local history of cultivation in recommending the ban.
The Sutter County Board of Supervisors on a unanimous roll-call vote adopted an ordinance to prohibit the cultivation and processing of industrial hemp in unincorporated county areas.
Development Services staff (identified in the staff report as Lehi) told the board the action follows earlier interim moratoria and subsequent ordinances and recommended adopting a countywide prohibition. Staff said the county’s agricultural commissioner had documented roughly 500 acres and about 30 greenhouses of hemp cultivation and that the sheriff’s office had recorded about 200 service calls…
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