Germany’s Federal Office for Agriculture and Food just published its 2026 numbers: 438 farms are growing 5,785 hectares of legal industrial hemp, with the average farm planting more than last year — the fiber-and-paper uses of hemp are quietly thriving. While Washington argues over intoxicating hemp products ahead of the December 11 federal deadline, this is the other hemp: a THC-free fiber crop turning fields into textiles. Every one of those acres is the same kind of plant behind picks like our RAPHAEL 100% Organic Hemp Painter’s Shirt and the Rawganique Hemp Journal — cloth that outlasts cotton, paper that outlasts wood pulp.
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