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Hemp Farming Returns to SC

By Mike Switzer
Published October 25, 2018 at 5:26 AM EDT
Lucas Snyder
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You may have heard that hemp farming is legal now in our state and that’s why farmers from the Upstate to the Lowcountry have been working overtime in recent months nurturing twenty 20-acre parcels of industrial hemp seedlings, all of which will ultimately be harvested and used for a variety of industrial purposes.

Mike Switzer interviews Lucas Snyder, founder and executive director of the South Carolina Hemp Farmers Association.

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Mike Switzer
After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.
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