hemp is the ideal crop.
it can grow 20 feet in one season. it rejuvenates the soil as it grows and can produce up to 3 crops per year.
hemp was legal tender from the 1600's until about 1800.
from it you can make, paper, clothing, construction panekingm and clean burning fuel.
in 1937 popular mechanics called it "the new billion-dollar crop." and a hemp harvester was invented.
about the time nylon fabric was going to be introduced, the growing of hemp became the growing of marijuana and it was declared illegal and nylon clothes became the new fabric of choice. followed later by plaid polyester jackets and goofy looking suits.
all the medicinal uses that could be derived from hemp with little or no side effects, have been replaced by the drug companies, interesting pun, with expensive synthetic drugs that come with a two page list of thier side effects, and here in the us the price for the drugs is the highest on the planet.
in 1991 the us government made the growing of more then 30,00 plants a death penalty offense.