Lancaster Farming Industrial Hemp Podcast

Lancaster Farming Industrial Hemp Podcast episodes:

• 05.29.2024

  Will the Hemp Industry Survive the Miller Amendment?

    On this week’s hemp podcast we discuss a recent amendment to the House draft of the 2024 Farm Bill known as the Miller Amendment, which was introduced by Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill. The amendment effectively bans all hemp products...

  
• 05.22.2024

  Czech Your Hemp with Hana Gabrielová

  On this week’s hemp podcast, Lancaster Farming talks to Czech hemp farmer, consultant and advocate Hana Gabrielová, who started her first hemp company, Hempoint, in 2010 and has been instrumental in developing the hemp industry in the Czech Republic and...

  
• 05.15.2024

  Bear Fiber Weaves American Textiles with Hemp

  On this week’s Hemp Podcast, we talk to Guy Carpenter, founder of Bear Fiber in North Carolina, where he is spinning a blend of hemp and cotton into yarn and making garments like hats, shirts, and socks. “The vision was...

  
• 05.08.2024

  Industrial Hemp on the National Mall

  Apologies to Jimmy Stewart. I only went to Washington for one day. I took the train from Philadelphia May 6 to record a podcast episode at the Ag on the Mall event on the National Mall in D.C. The National...

  
• 05.02.2024

  Hempcrete Workshop Lays Foundation to Build Industry and Community

  This week’s podcast takes us to a hempcrete workshop in Barto, Pennsylvania. That’s where Cameron McIntosh of Americhanvre Cast-Hemp hosted a four-day hands-on training session to teach the basics of the spray-applied method of hempcrete installation using the Ereasy system....

  
• 04.24.2024

  Exploring Hemp Fiber Agronomy and Genetics

  On this week’s hemp podcast, we listen to a panel discussion from the NoCo Hemp Expo that took place in Colorado earlier this month. The panelists were Rachel Berry, a farmer and founder of the Illinois Hemp Growers Association; Terry...

  
• 04.20.2024

  420 Special: Rumble Strip – John Rodgers Weed Farmer

  On this 420 Bonus show, we share an episode of one of our favorite podcasts, Rumble Strip. It’s made by Erica Heilman who tells stories of rural Vermont. On this episode she interviews Vermonter John Rodgers, a stonemason the Northeast...

  
• 04.17.2024

  10th Annual NoCo Hemp Expo Gathers Many Voices

  This week’s hemp podcast is a recap of the 10th annual NoCo Hemp Expo in Estes Park, Colorado, April 11-13, where industry stakeholders gathered to collaborate, commiserate and celebrate the state of hemp in 2024. The episode features voices from many attendees,...

  
• 04.10.2024

  Experimental Hemp Micro Processing With Steve Groff

  On this week’s hemp podcast, Lancaster Farming talks to Steve Groff from Cedar Meadow Farm in Holtwood, Lancaster County, where he is getting ready to plant 70 acres of industrial hemp. “This year it’s all fiber. And we’ll probably plant...

  
• 04.05.2024

  Eyes on the Prize: The Somewhat Messy Process of Getting Hemp Grain into the Feed Markets

  On this bonus episode we talk to Andrew Bish and Morgan Tweet from the Hemp Feed Coalition, the advocacy group that has been working for four years to get hemp grain approved as a livestock feed. Opening up the feed...

  
• 04.03.2024

  The Bee’s Knees: Ken Meyer on the Buzz About Hemp in South Dakota

  In this week’s hemp podcast, Lancaster Farming speaks with Ken Meyer, beekeeper and hemp processor from South Dakota. Meyer and his family run a fourth-generation beekeeping business as well as the state’s first industrial hemp processing facility. As a young...

  
• 04.01.2024

  Right Coast Hemp Hosts Hempcrete Workshops in New Jersey

  On this bonus episode of the Hemp Podcast, we talk to Mike Mercadante from Right Coast Hemp in Manahawkin, New Jersey, where the company is holding the first of a series of hands-on hempcrete work shops, May 10-12. The workshops...

  
• 03.27.2024

  Hempitecture Aims to Make the ‘Most Sustainable Building Material on the Planet’

  This week’s podcast guest Mattie Mead competed in a 2013 pitch competition at Hobart College in Geneva, New York. He had just shared his vision for a company that made building materials out of hemp. “One of the judges for...

  
• 03.20.2024

  Mill26 is Making 100% Hemp Paper in Upstate New York

    Hemp Podcast guest James “Jimmy” Cottrell II is a fourth-generation paper maker at family-owned Cottrell Paper in Saratoga County, New York. He started cutting the grass in high school and began working at the mill after graduation, and has...

  
• 03.16.2024

  Good News from the National Hemp Association

  This is a special weekend edition of the Hemp Podcast. Lancaster Farming speaks with Geoff Whaling, chair of the National Hemp Association. I will update the details of this episode soon. For now, enjoy the audio. Learn more: National...

  
• 03.13.2024

  Jean Lotus Trains an Eagle Eye on Hemp Building Worldwide

  Jean Lotus is an award-winning investigative journalist and publisher of HempBuild Magazine. She is based in Fort Collins, Colorado, where she has been covering the hemp industry since 2017, and is our guest on this week’s hemp podcast. While she...

  
• 03.06.2024

  Polish Entrepreneur Builds Hemp Textile Company After Success in CBD

  This week on the Hemp Podcast, Lancaster Farming talks with Maciej Kowalski, founder and CEO of Kombinat Konopny, a hemp company based in Elbląg, a Polish city on the Baltic Sea. Kombinat Konopny is a vertically integrated hemp operator working both...

  
• 02.28.2024

  Changes to the PA Hemp Program & Getting to Know the KP4 Hemp Cutter

  This week’s hemp podcast is divided into two parts. Lancaster Farming talks with Shannon Powers from the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture about some major changes to the hemp program in the Keystone State. “The first is that Pennsylvania is moving...

  
• 02.21.2024

  The Rise of ‘Red State Weed’ and What to Do About It

  This week’s podcast guest is Robert Hoban, a cannabis attorney and industry leader. Hoban recently published a five-part series at Forbes.com in which he takes a deep dive on some of the most controversial issues in the hemp industry today....

  
• 02.14.2024

  Hemp Industry Farm Bill Priorities and Building an Overseas Market for U.S. Hemp

  This week’s hemp podcast guest is Patrick Atagi, president and CEO of the National Industrial Hemp Council of America (NIHC), a DC-based organization that advocates for and lobbies on behalf of the hemp industry. ON this episode, Atagi discusses industry...

  
• 02.07.2024

  Panda Biotech Goes Big in Texas With High Plains Hemp Gin

  This week on the industrial hemp podcast, Lancaster Farming talks with Scott Evans, executive vice president of Panda Biotech, a Dallas-based company whose High Plains Hemp Gin in Wichita Falls will be one of the largest hemp processing facilities in...

  
• 01.31.2024

  Good News for Hemp Feed and Hempcrete in 2024

  The Industrial Hemp Podcast is back after a short break. Episode one of Season Four is available now. The theme of this episode is Good News, because there seems to be a fair amount of it these days in the...

  
• 01.24.2024

  A Brief Message Before We Start the New Season

  Season 4 of the Industrial Hemp Podcast will be starting up soon, and this brief message is sort of like a teaser for the new season. Have questions, comments or concerns? I'd love to hear from you: [email protected]. ...

  
• 12.20.2023

  Hempcrete Projects Push the Envelope in Massachusetts

  We’re taking the show on the road again. This week we’ll hear interviews from my recent trip to Massachusetts, where I visited the Cape Cod Hemp House in Harwich, and the Hillside Center for Sustainable Living in Newburyport. Michael Monteiro...

  
• 12.13.2023

  Hempcrete with Cameron McIntosh

  This weeks' show is sort of mixed bag. I've got a few nuggets of hemp news, a few updates, a trailer for a new Lancaster Farming podcast called The Farm House, and an in-person interview with hempcrete builder Cameron McIntosh....

  
• 12.06.2023

  Positive Vibes With Noco Hemp Expo Founder Morris Beegle

  On this week’s show, we talk with Morris Beegle, founder of the Noco Hemp Expo, the largest industrial hemp convention in North America. The tenth annual expo will be held April 11-13 in Estes Park, Colorado. “It’s really a beautiful...

  
• 11.29.2023

  Pennsylvania Hemp Industry Council Courts Investors

  This week on the hemp podcast we talk with Erica Stark, chair of the Pennsylvania Hemp Industry Council, a nonprofit seeking to accelerate the return of hemp to Pennsylvania’s agriculture landscape. Earlier this year, PAHIC received over $200,000 in grant...

  
• 11.22.2023

  Dama BioPlastics Forges Carbon Neutral Future with Swedish Automaker Polestar

  On this week’s hemp podcast, Lancaster Farming talks with Cole Gibbs and Adam Dietrich from Colorado-based Dama BioPlastics. The company specializes in biomaterials and bioplastics made from upcycled agricultural plant waste, including industrial hemp which is abundant in Colorado’s flourishing...

  
• 11.15.2023

  Cannabis Breeder Reflects on the Cultural Importance of Hemp

  Hemp has played a role in the lives of humans for a very long time, according to this week’s podcast guest, Jeremy Klettke, cannabis breeder and owner of Davis Farms, based in Oregon and Massachusetts. “It’s clearly culturally assimilated with...

  
• 11.08.2023

  What Can The U.S. Hemp Industry Learn from Europe

  This week on the podcast we talk to Robin Destiche and Corbett Miteff, two founding partners of KonopiUS, a company that sells seeds and consulting services. KonopiUS specializes in seeds from Europe, importing genetics that work best for North America....

  
• 11.03.2023

  Getting a Master’s Degree in Hemp from Cornell University

  After making this weekly podcast for over 5 years, it feels like I’ve earned a bachelor's degree in hemp. Unfortunately, the Lancaster Farming Industrial Hemp Podcast is not an accredited, degree-conferring institution. Perhaps in the Land of Oz, the Wizard...

  
• 11.01.2023

  The Investment Opportunities of Industrial Hemp

  The fledgling U.S. hemp industry is decades behind countries like Canada, France and China, but according to impact investor and this week’s podcast guest, Pierre Berard, it could flourish into a $2.2 billion industry by 2030 and create thousands of...

  
• 10.25.2023

  Can Hemp Seed Oil Reduce Inflammation in Horses?

  Inflammation occurs naturally in horses and is often part an animal’s healing response, but chronic, low-grade inflammation is a contributing factor in diseases that affect the health of horses, according to this week’s podcast guest, Kristine Ely. Last month, Ely...

  
• 10.18.2023

  Hemp at NC State with David Suchoff

  On this episode we talk to David Suchoff, alternative crops professor and Extension specialist at North Carolina State University, about hemp at NC State and the research he oversees as leader of the Alternative Crops program and as the director...

  
• 10.04.2023

  Walking in the Valley of Hemp at Pure Shenandoah

  This week on the podcast, Lancaster Farming talks to Abner Johnson, chief operating officer at Pure Shenandoah, a Virginia-based, family-owned hemp company that has built a successful CBD brand while simultaneously going all in on fiber and hurd. Johnson and...

  
• 09.27.2023

  FFAR's Hemp Research Consortium

  On this week’s Hemp Podcast, Lancaster Farming talks to Saharah Moon Chapotin, executive director of the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR). the Foundation was established in the 20124 Farm Bill “We were given the unique mandate by Congress...

  
• 09.20.2023

  Courtney Moran Lobbies for Hemp on Capitol Hill

  On this week’s podcast we talk to Oregon-based hemp lobbyist and legal strategist Courtney Moran, who was in Washington, D.C., last week “lobbying for support for the Industrial Hemp Act.” The Industrial Hemp Act of 2023, also known as the...

  
• 09.14.2023

  What's Happening at Hart Hemp Co. in Maryland?

  On this week’s podcast, we talk to Andy Bennett, founder of Hart Hemp Co., the first commercial-scale industrial hemp producer in the Old Line State. “We're starting as a grassroots organization, putting some industrial hemp in the ground here in...

  
• 09.06.2023

  Innovative Hemp Harvest at Cedar Meadow Farm

  On this week’s hemp podcast, Lancaster Farming talks to cover crop coach Steve Groff, who was hoping to get one of those multilevel pull-behind sickle bar mowers to cut his hemp this year. But those machines are in demand and...

  
• 08.30.2023

  Flax is Linen, Linen is Flax

  This week on the Hemp Podcast we shift gears a little bit and talk about flax. We go to Kneehigh Farm to meet Pennsylvania Flax Project founders Heidi Barr and Emma de Long who hosted a flax harvest educational event...

  
• 08.23.2023

  Hemp Vision Becomes Reality for Lower Sioux

  This week’s podcast is a follow-up to a story we brought to you in April about the Lower Sioux Indian Community in Morton, Minnesota, where members of the tribe have been busy this summer building with hempcrete. With special permission,...

  
• 08.16.2023

  Industrial Hemp, Ag Progress, Fiddle Fest and More

  This week we're on the road, from Ag Progress Days to Brush Mountain Bison, then to the Old Fiddler's Picnic and hemp field days at King's AgriSeeds and Penn State's research farm. This is a meandering episode. Buckle up and...

  
• 08.09.2023

  Making Hemp Sound Great with Hemptone Music

  This week on the podcast, we talk to Jay Burstein, a luthier in Vermont who makes guitars from industrial hemp. His company is called Hemptone Music and specializes in fine-crafted hemp instruments. On this episode, Burstein talks about his process...

  
• 08.02.2023

  Can Hemp Keep Its Cool in the Textile World?

  This week on the Hemp Podcast, we talk to Sandra Marquardt, fiber crops manager at Textile Exchange, a global nonprofit that works with textile brands, manufacturers and farmers around the world to guide the industry toward purposeful production methods and...

  
• 07.29.2023

  Meet Me in Montana

  What was the Montana Hemp Summit all about? Depends on who you ask. This episode was made on location in Fort Benton and Great Falls, Montana, and a few airports along the way home back to Pennsylvania. I will update...

  
• 07.19.2023

  Hemp Research and Variety Trials with Penn State's Alyssa Collins

  This week on the Hemp Podcast, Lancaster Farming reconnects with Alyssa Collins, associate research professor at Penn State and the director of the university’s Southeast Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Manheim, Lancaster County, where she oversees hemp production and...

  
• 07.12.2023

  Highway to Hemp: On the Road With Owen Deitcher

  This week on the hemp podcast, Lancaster Farming catches up with recent Cornell grad Owen Deitcher, who is on the road this summer to visit hemp farmers and processors around the country. The reason he’s making this trip, he said,...

  
• 06.28.2023

  Agronomist Talks Growing Hemp in Montana

  On this week’s hemp podcast, we talk to Dalton Wittmer, agronomist at IND Hemp, a hemp processing company based in Fort Benton, Montana. Growing up and working on a farm in southern Indiana and graduating from Purdue University's agronomy program,...

  
• 06.21.2023

  First Fiber & Grain Hemp in Connecticut

  This week on the hemp podcast, Lancaster Farming talks to Hector “Freedom” Gerardo, the first farmer to grow fiber and grain hemp in Connecticut for a very long time. Hemp was outlawed in the U.S. for most of the 20th...

  
• 06.14.2023

  Pennsylvania Hemp Engine Ready to Roll

  On this week’s Hemp Podcast, Lancaster Farming talks with Tom Trite, Sairam Rudrabhatla, Kenneth Okrepkie and David Minnig, who make up part of the leadership team of the Pennsylvania Hemp Engine. Funded by a $1 million grant from the National...