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“It all comes down to infrastructure,” continues Valentini. “There aren’t a lot of options as to where that infrastructure could go. It can’t just go anywhere. We, as an organization, don’t deal with infrastructure, but we have provided this information to the municipalities in the area and they’re looking into moving forward with that information.”


Once the infrastructure is in place, Medicine Hat is well-situated to become a leader in the agribusiness food processing industry, given the strong local presence of greenhouse growers, dryland and irrigation farmers and close proximity to


the United States. It is still illegal to grow industrial hemp in the U.S., which is the country’s largest export market for the hemp products. There is also lots of room to increase the domestic market.


For now, Fieldberg will be hiring up to three people to work at his hemp processing plant and more when the plant expands next year. However, it is in the value-added processing of hemp and other agricultural products where the most jobs are created.


“Hemp is a crop that has great potential,” says Slaski. “It grows really well on the Prairies.” ❚


Will Van Roessel, a farmer near Bow Island, has grown hemp for the last eight years and says the economic return on the crop is quite good.


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