Hemp Disposal Activities | Agricultural Marketing Service

Disposal Practices vs. Disposal Outcome

The options below describe disposal activities. These activities transition the non-compliant product into a non-retrievable or non-ingestible form. Before-and-after imagery shows an example of each activity.

Note: It is not uncommon for producers to perform one or more of these activities on the same field. For example, a farmer may plow under and subsequently disc a field.

Photo Example	Ag Production Activity	Compliant outcome	Photo Example
	Plowing Under Curved plow blades rotate subsoil to surface and bury crop below	Plowing Under “Green Manure” Amends soil directly from crop
	Mulching / Composting Fields crops cut and blended with manure or other biomass material	Mulching / Composting “Green Manure” Mulch mixed with manure or other biomass
	Disking Leveling of field using tow-behind disk implement	Disking “Green Manure” Amends soil directly from crop while leveling field
	Bush Mower / Chopper Commercial lawn mower used to shred and mix thick vegetation	Bush Mower / Chopper “Green Manure” Shredded biomass decomposes into soil
	Deep Burial Fields are trenched, surface soil is buried at depth of at least 12”	Deep Burial Field biomass buried in trenches and covered with soil
	Burning Setting fire to specific production fields or biomatter piled on the field	Burning Fields are cleared of all plant material

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