Amanda Montgomery and her husband started AM and PM Hemp Farm in downstate Kirkland in 2020. After her husband passed unexpectedly last year, the farm, which produces and sells a range of hemp-derived goods, has been her “sole livelihood,” Montgomery said.

But the farm could go up in smoke due to the Republican-led spending deal to reopen the federal government that passed Congress and was signed by President Donald Trump late Wednesday .

“This bill would pretty much destroy my entire farm operation,” Montgomery said hours before the the bill with hemp restrictions became law, calling the move “unnecessary and cruel.”

A last-minute provision in the shutdown-ending legislation narrows the definition of hemp from the 2018 Farm Bill, now closing the loophole that allowed for an array of in

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