When Justin Frederico and Ben Hall, Jr. encountered each other as fifth graders back in 1976, they bonded immediately. “He liked fishing, which I also liked, so we hit it off,” said Dr. Frederico.
The two met at Green Ridge Elementary, a rural school near Mechanicsburg, in south central Pennsylvania (USA), which Dr. Frederico remembers as “a nice agricultural area, a great area to grow up in.”
Forty years later the longtime friends have strengthened their bonds through hemp, under JustBen Agriculture, a research and development company with ambitious plans in Pennsylvania’s state-managed hemp program that’s getting off the ground
this year.
