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RE: American Ginseng – Cash crop, medicine and more
totally agree with you! one reason, as fernowl mentioned above, it can be difficult to grow ginseng is that the government regulates it so heavily (just like they're now do as marijuana starts to legalize nationwide)... their hands are in all the pockets worth anything. someone local to us also just go arrested for wildharvesting ginseng and crossing state borders.. there is strict paperwork people must go through to grow and sell it... part of me thinks it isn't worth it...
I think the government mainly regulates wild ginseng and that is mainly trying to prevent it from becoming extinct. Cultivated only has to go buy what will satisfy the buyers. They of course want to gets as much viable product for their money as possible, so the stronger (older) the plant, the more they are willing to pay.
for cultivated also, fernowl, don't you have to have a lot of paper trail proving you grew it? i could be wrong, but i remember when i looked into it it just seemed so regulated and complex... it turned me off. you're totally right that the govt regulates wild and i think that is wise; it's overharvested toward extinction as it is.