Dear listeners,

This week on the Hemp Show, we’re dropping the needle on a very special commemorative box set from the 2025 Global Industrial Hemp Fiber Summit in Raleigh, North Carolina.

In this first installment — Sides 1 and 2 — of a three-episode miniseries, we hear from a wide range of voices building the fiber side of the hemp industry from the ground up: farmers, machine makers, wet processors, entrepreneurs and professors. They’re working in the field and in the lab, bridging research and manufacturing, and helping steer the industrial hemp conversation back to its core: fiber, hurd and regenerative purpose.

NIHC’s Global Fiber Hemp Summit in Raleigh was special. No question about that. And I thought it deserved special treatment here on the podcast. I am hopeful that I was able to capture the energy in the room. I interviewed nearly 40 people during the summit, and they each have a story to tell about their part of the supply chain.

Forty interviews is too long for one show. It’s too long for two shows. but it’s perfect for this three-disc set. I’m calling it a “box set” because that’s how it feels — like a classic record album like "All Things Must Pass," "Joe’s Garage," "Europe ’72," or "The Last Waltz."

Thank you for indulging me.

— eric

Side One — Voices Featured:

• Guy Carpenter – President, Bear Fiber [00:02:25]

• Maciej Kowalski – Founder, Kombinat Konopny, Poland [00:05:06]

• Hardy Sullivan – Managing Director, THIES US [00:12:24]

• Bryan Wilson – Project ELI, Environmental Living Industries, Texas [00:15:56]

• Dan Matthews – Project Manager, Tatham Ltd., U.K. [00:17:52]

• Shira Adler – Founder, EcoSynergy LLC [00:20:18]

• Anjli Kumar – Founder, Inner Bark Heritage [00:23:07]

• Alejandro Diaz – Hemp Fortex [00:25:45]

• Rick Brown – Brown Family Farms & Produce N.C. [00:29:04]

Side Two — Voices Featured:

• Larry Smart – Hemp Geneticist, Cornell University [00:35:25]

• Monique Anderson – Farmer, Orangeburg County, S.C. [00:38:57]

• Morris Beegle – Founder, WAFBA/Let’s Talk Hemp [00:41:39]

• Keith Dunn – East Coast Hemp Supply, Dunn, N.C. [00:42:11]

• David Suchoff – North Carolina State University [00:46:37]

Stay tuned for sides 3 and 4.

 

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Americhanvre Cast-Hemp https://www.americhanvre.com

King’s AgriSeeds https://www.kingsagriseeds.com

Forever Green – Distributors of the KP4 Hemp Cutter https://www.hempcutter.com

National Hemp Association – Advocating for hemp farmers and the fiber industry https://www.nationalhempassociation.org

Special thanks to the National Industrial Hemp Council of America for sponsoring our travel to the Global Fiber Summit https://www.nihcoa.com

This week on the Lancaster Farming Industrial Hemp Podcast, we’re listening to a recap of the 2025 Global Industrial Hemp Fiber Summit, hosted by the National Industrial Hemp Council of America at the Wilson College of Textiles at NC State, that took place in Raleigh, NC, July 15-17, 2025.

For three well-planned days, leaders from across the hemp value chain came together—from farmers and geneticists to processors, engineers, and global apparel brands. On this episode we follow the flow of the summit itself, threading together powerful takeaways from the TED-style talks across agriculture, processing, textiles, composites, and branding.

We hear from nearly 40 speakers—some familiar voices from the hemp world, and some new collaborators—sharing what’s working, what’s needed, and how we build a domestic fiber industry that actually works.

Special thanks to the NIHC for sponsoring our travel, and to NC State’s AV team for sharing the audio from the event. And thanks to our show sponsors HEMI – the Hemp Education & Marketing Initiative – and the National Hemp Association.

On this show you will hear (in order of appearance):

Rachel Raineri – Wilson College of Textiles – [00:00:01]

Guy Carpenter – President, Bear Fiber – [00:02:37]

Dr. Andre West – NC State, Textile Innovation Engine – [00:03:11]

Patrick Atagi – President & CEO, NIHC – [00:04:14]

Agriculture

Dr. David Suchoff – NC State Extension – [00:05:41]

Dr. Larry Smart – Cornell University – [00:06:05]

Terry Moran – Kanda Seeds – [00:07:12]

Glenn Kayll – Hemp Plastic Company – [00:07:36]

Melissa Nelson – South Bend Industrial Hemp – [00:09:09]

Rick Brown – Brown Family Farms – [00:10:07]

Steve Groff –Cedar Meadow Farm – [00:10:45]

Processing

Trey Riddle – IND HEMP (moderator) – [00:11:35]

Sandra Marquardt – On the Mark PR – [00:12:18]

Coleman Beale – BastCore – [00:13:43]

Satish Hodage – YUJ Labs – [00:14:42]

Siyan Wang– PhD Researcher, NC State – [00:15:39]

John Peterson – Dakota Hemp – [00:17:24]

John Lupien – Consolidated Carbon – [00:18:52]

Naiden Kremenliev – Argon Fiber / Tryon Finishing – [00:19:57]

David Culp – Andritz / LaRoche – [00:21:29]

Elias Junker – Andritz / LaRoche – [00:21:47]

Textiles

Ding Hongliang – Hemp Fortex – [00:22:44]

Maciej Kowalski – Kombinat Konopny – [00:24:57]

Dave Cook – Tuscarora Mills – [00:26:36]

Dr. Andre West – NC State (follow-up) – [00:28:05]

Arlo Estill – Hempsmith Clothing – [00:28:57]

Composites & Building Materials

Matty Mead – Hempitecture – [00:30:49]

Trey Riddle – IND HEMP – [00:31:59]

Dr. Daniel Walczyk – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – [00:33:41]

Katie Coppenhaver – Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) – [00:35:12]

Value Chain & Industry Strategy 

Patrick Atagi – NIHC (again) – [00:38:59]

Mark D’Sa – Panda Biotech – [00:39:50]

Joseph Carringer – Sound Strategy / Hemp 3.0 – [00:42:23]

Larry Serbin – Hemp Traders – [00:43:52]

Gabriella Fioravanti – Jefferson University – [00:45:15]

Olaf Jezela – Trace Femcare – [00:45:45]

Pierre Berard – HEMI – [00:46:32]

Erica Stark – National Hemp Association – [00:46:57]

This week on the Hemp Show, we’re continuing the conversation around the need to split the industry into two. There is much confusion in the minds of law makers and consumers when it comes to what hemp is.

For years hemp advocates championed the fact that hemp doesn’t get you high, but thanks to a loophole in the 2018 Farm Bill, somebody figured out how to get high from hemp, and so began the era of intoxicating hemp that we find ourselves in now.

But if hemp is getting you high, it’s not hemp — it’s weed. Stop calling it hemp.

And that’s why there needs to be a legislative fix. Erica Stark from the National Hemp Association joins us to discuss the issue and share her ideas on what a potential fix might look like.

Then we talk to Lancaster Country regenerative hemp farmer Steve Groff about the various hemp projects he’s working on down at the farm, where he's got 60 acres of fiber hemp ready to harvest in about three weeks. He talks about the “green decortication” project he’s working on and how he hopes to inspire people at the Global Fiber Hemp Summit in Raleigh next week.

As always Groff sees potential, but he’s not waiting for the next Farm Bill to act. “I’m not checked out,” he said. “I’m checked in.”

Plus, news nuggets from around the hemp world: Kazakhstan is preparing to make passport paper from hemp, Arizona courts are tightening THC rules, and Morris Beegle calls again for clear bifurcation between cannabinoid and industrial markets.

We close with a reminder to check out our new kids podcast, Super Smart Farm Show, launching July 22. Stick around after the credits to hear the trailer. As always, thanks for listening — and until next time, we’ll see you in the newspaper.

This week on the Hemp Show we’re talking about flax, a fiber plant with remarkable similarities to industrial hemp when grown for textiles.

There’s a fair amount of flax growing this year in southeastern Pennsylvania.

The last time this much flax grew here, tractors hadn’t even been invented yet.

By the late 1800s flax production was in rapid decline in the Keystone State, pushed out by cheap cotton and forgotten by a country racing toward synthetic fiber — which makes 2025 a special year in Pennsylvania.

Thanks to the PA Flax Project, spearheaded by Heidi Barr and Emma de Long, there are 30 acres of flax for fiber production in Chester, Montgomery and Lancaster counties this year.

Thirty acres sounds small, but it’s a far cry from the eighth of an acre the organization started with in 2022, or the zero acres for generations before that.

When they harvest their 30 acres of flax next week, de Long said, this will be the first flax for fiber ever mechanically harvested in Pennsylvania.

“When flax became no more in the United States, thanks to cotton and free labor and synthetics, the linen industry was destroyed. And since then, it has mechanized in other parts of the world. So now that we are having a resurgence of growing fiber flax and bringing this industry back, we have imported equipment from Belgium and we’re ready to rock and roll,” she said.

Barr said the Pennsylvanian Department of Agriculture has been instrumental in helping further the nascent flax industry in the state.

“We advocated for and they added fiber flax to Pennsylvania’s specialty crop list, which made us eligible for a specialty crop block grant, which we received,” Barr said.

The organization also received an Organic Market Development Grant through USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service, which they are using to implement their business plan and scale acreage, educate and support farmers, and to develop a plan for a scutching mill, Barr said.

She said the mill will be a worker- and farmer-owned cooperative, based on flax-producing co-ops in Europe.

The podcast this week shares a handful of voices from the PA Flax Project’s Flax Flower Picnic, held June 14 at Lundale Farm in South Coventry Township, Chester County.

In order of appearance on the show, we hear from Emma de Long and Heidi Barr from the PA Flax Project; Natalie Horvath, design director at F. Schumacher and Company, a family-owned textile and interior design powerhouse in New York; Bill Schick, director of agriculture for the PA Flax Project; Mike Roth from the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture; Paul Turner, chair of the Department of Theater and Dance at Rowan University; Leslie Davidson from the Pennsylvania Fibershed; and PA Flax Project member Rachel Laramee.

After flax, we check in with Dr. David Suchoff from NC State University in North Carolina about the Global Fiber Hemp Summit in Raleigh later this month.

Learn More:

PA Flax Project

paflaxproject.com

F. Schumacher & Co.

schumacher.com

Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture

www.pa.gov/agencies/pda.html

Pennsylvania Fibershed

pafibershed.org

North American Linen Association (NALA)

northamericanlinen.org

Thanks to our sponsors!

IND HEMP

Indhemp.com

Forever Green, distributors of the KP4 Hemp Cutter

hempcutter.com

Lately on the podcast, I’ve been wrestling with a question of language.

What does the word hemp really mean, where did that meaning come from, how has it shifted over time, and who gets to define the word hemp today?

For a thousand years, hemp was known as the plant or material that you made things from — things like rope, cloth and paper.

But now when people hear the word hemp, they think about weed. And that’s not helpful for a nascent industry trying to raise capital, build infrastructure and develop markets.

To help me sort out the history and meaning of the word hemp, I spoke with Oxford University Professor Lynda Mugglestone, a historian of the English language, a lexicographer and an expert in how words evolve and collide with law, commerce and culture.

“You would be cheered to know that hemp as a plant grown for fiber has history on its side. If we go right back to Old English we can see the very earliest kind of herbals and leech books talking about hemp,” Mugglestone said.

For most of its long life in English, hemp meant the fiber plant grown for ropes, sails and home spun fabrics, and that meaning was stable for centuries. It was a household word, part of daily life, tied to farming and industry.

But language doesn't sit still, and hemp is no exception. Over time, new uses for the word hemp have crept in. First medicinal, then psychoactive, and now commercial forces are pulling hemp in more directions.

While lawmakers try to impose definitions and industries fight for market share, ordinary people just keep using the word however they want.

That's how language works.

But the original meaning hasn’t gone anywhere — the fiber, the grain and the plant with history behind it. That meaning is still there and perhaps more robust today than at any time in the past 80 years.

But the meaning of hemp has been expanded, like it or not, to include these new definitions, including that hemp can be THC-a flower or that hemp can get you high.

Of course, I disagree with this new definition. Hemp that gets you high isn’t hemp. Call it pot, call it weed, call it what you will, just don’t call it hemp.

As Mugglestone, paraphrasing Samuel Johnson, said, “Words, like their author, when they're not gaining strength, they're generally losing it.”

So there you go, fiber and grain folks. You know what to do. Claim the word hemp and make it grow strong. You are hemp’s rightful heir. Be the signal in the noise.

* Books by Lynda Mugglestone, author of a range of books on English words and how they get used and recorded.Recent books include:

Dictionaries. A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, paperback)

Samuel Johnson and the Journey into Words (OUP, paperback)

Writing a War of Words: Andrew Clark and the Search for meaning in World War One (Oxford University Press, hardback)

 

Thanks to our Sponsors!

IND HEMP

Forever Green

National Hemp Association

Credits: Produced by Eric Hurlock, mixed and mastered by Justin Berger

This week on the Lancaster Farming Industrial Hemp Podcast, we’re talking about wipes.

And diapers. And makeup pads. And all the other throwaway hygiene products we barely think about — but use every day.

Most of these single-use items are made from plastic.

Why?

Because plastic is cheap, consistent, and engineered to run smoothly on fast-moving machines.

But that convenience comes at a cost: landfill waste, microplastic pollution and a total disconnect from the land.

But what if we could change that? What if the raw material for these essential products didn’t come from oil — but from agriculture? From the hemp fields, even?

This week, we talk to Jason Finnis from Bast Fiber Technologies, a company working to make that shift real — using hemp fiber to replace plastic in nonwoven hygiene products.

Our guest is Jason Finnis, co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer at Bast Fiber Technologies, a clean-tech fiber company with operations in North Carolina and Germany. Jason’s been working to bring hemp fiber into hygiene and personal care products for more than 30 years — not as a novelty, but as a high-performance alternative to synthetic materials.

We talk about:

• The massive and often invisible role of nonwovens in our daily lives

• The hidden microplastics in wipes, pads and tampons — and why it matters

• Why hemp fiber is a smart material for hygiene: absorbent, soft and compostable

• What BFT looks for in hemp fiber: long, clean and consistent

• The importance of regional supply chains and local farm partnerships

• How consumer pressure, brand demand and European policy are aligning to create real momentum

Jason shares his journey from selling hemp out of a VW bus in the ’90s to helping build a future where everyday products are cleaner, greener and made from plants, not petroleum.

Learn More:

Bast Fiber Technologies

https://www.bastfibertech.com

Global Hemp Fiber Summit – July 10–11 at NC State University

https://hempinitiatives.com/fiber-summit

Thanks to our sponsor:

HEMI – The Hemp Education and Marketing Initiative

Learn more at HempInitiatives.org

Produced by Eric Hurlock and Justin Berger

On this episode of the Lancaster Farming Industrial Hemp Podcast, we take a look at the fight for industrial hemp’s future — from grassroots advocacy to global certification and the ongoing struggles farmers face in the banking system.

Act 1: Virginia Hemp Month – Reclaiming the Word "Hemp"

Joe Domino and Scott McStacy of the Virginia Hemp Coalition join the show to talk about their efforts to officially recognize June as Virginia Hemp Month. With events ranging from hempcrete building workshops and beekeeping demonstrations to film screenings and brewery gatherings, Virginia is building momentum to reclaim the word hemp for fiber, grain, and industrial uses — and to separate it from cannabinoids and cannabis.

Learn more:

Virginia Hemp Month

virginiahempmonth.com

Virginia Hemp Coalition

https://www.vahemp.org/

Act 2: Responsible Hemp Standard – Certification for Fiber Hemp

Eric Singular returns to introduce the Responsible Hemp Standard (RHS) — the first global certification system for the industrial hemp fiber supply chain. RHS brings traceability, transparency, and verified responsible practices to every stage of hemp fiber production, from cultivation to cottonization. This certification gives brands and textile mills the confidence to source truly sustainable hemp fiber for apparel, textiles, and home goods.

Learn more:

Responsible Hemp Standard

responsiblehempstandard.com

Act 3: Banking Headaches on Brush Mountain

In our final segment, we head back to Brush Mountain in Centre County, PA, where bison farmer and hemp grower Herb Grove tells how his local bank abruptly canceled his accounts — simply because he held a legal hemp farming permit. His story is a stark reminder of the outdated financial roadblocks still facing hemp farmers nationwide.

Thanks to our Sponsors!

• IND Hemp — indhemp.com

• King's AgriSeeds — kingsagriseeds.com

• Forever Green / KP4 Hemp Cutter — hempcutter.com

Don’t forget the Global Industrial Hemp Fiber Summit in Raleigh, NC — hosted by NC State and NIHC this July

This week on the show we reconnect with Chad Rosen, founder and CEO of Victory Hemp Foods, who was first on the show back in the summer of ‘21 when I drove the Lancaster Farming National Hemp Tour RV right up to Victory Hemp’s grain bins in Carrollton, Kentucky.

When I was there 4 years ago, Victory was processing batches, roughly 20,000 lbs a month, but they just put in a new processing line that lets them do 120,000 pounds of hemp hearts per month, a sixfold increase.

But that’s not all. The new production line features “patented processing technology” that Rosen said, “delivers cleaner flavor, higher yields for us in the plant, and functional formats that really meet the expectations of major food manufacturers."

“We are a food ingredient manufacturer. That's the core of what we do,” Rosen said.

Hemp heart protein and oil are the core of Victory’s business, but the new processing technology also allowed Victory to launch value-added ingredient formats like puffs, crisps, clusters and textured proteins.

“We’ve evolved beyond hemp hearts,” Rosen said. “The idea is to maximize the economic and nutritional value of the hemp seed.”

Victory’s products appear in a wide range of consumer foods, from gluten-free Texas toast to meal replacement shakes and post-workout smoothies. But you’ll have to read the ingredients to find hemp.

“We see a lot more traction with the customers that don’t advertise hemp on the front of the box,” Rosen said. “What they advertise is transparent supply chains or protein boosts or omega-3 claims.”

This low-key marketing strategy reflects lingering stigma—and regulatory confusion—surrounding hemp-derived products. Rosen is optimistic but realistic about the hurdles still facing U.S. hemp grain farmers.

“We have to do a lot of the heavy lifting up front and on the back end to guarantee farmers are going to be able to compete,” he said.

On this episode you can expect to hear where hemp food ingredients are going, how Victory Hemp Foods is scaling production, and what it will take for U.S. farmers to meet future demand.

Also on the show, we touch on Hemp History Month, the upcoming NIHC Global Hemp Fiber Summit in Raleigh, and how hemp can bring manufacturing back to small-town America.

Learn more about Victory Hemp Foods:

https://www.victoryhemp.com

Register for the NIHC Global Industrial Hemp Fiber Summit in Raleigh, NC (July 15–17):

https://globalhempfiber.textiles.ncsu.edu

Listen to the National Hemp Tour Interview with Chad Rosen from July 2021:https://www.lancasterfarming.com/farming-news/hemp/podcast/national-hemp-tour-victory-hemp-foods-carrolton-kentucky/article_2fa4d0a4-dff8-11eb-a4cf-039276633421.html

 

Thanks to our sponsors!

HEMI – The Hemp Education and Marketing Initiative

https://hempinitiatives.org

Americhanvre Cast Hemp – Leaders in sustainable hempcrete construction

https://americhanvre.com

The hemp event of the summer is taking place in Raleigh, North Carolina, July 15-17.

It's the Global Industrial Hemp Fiber Summit, hosted by the Wilson College of Textiles, in conjunction with the National Industrial Hemp Council.

This week on the Hemp Show, we’ll talk to the lead organizer of the event, Guy Carpenter.

Unlike other events focused on industrial hemp, this summit centers squarely on hemp fiber and the industries that are growing up around fiber: textiles, apparel, denim, upholstery, non-wovens, construction, hempcrete, insulation, acoustic panels, automotive, biocomposites, door panels, dashboards, paper, packaging, bioenergy, bioplastics and more.

Just don’t expect cannabinoids, CBD, Delta-8, hemp-derived intoxicants, or any discussion of the floral side of cannabis.

According to Carpenter, this event is all about building the fiber industry.

"If you have any interest whatsoever in starting a business in our industry and figuring out how to make it work and also figuring out what are the starting points, what are the roadblocks, what are the opportunities … this is the place to be,” he said.

The three-day event will include panel discussions with industry experts, as well as field trips to NC State hemp fields, local manufacturing centers and the largest and newest hemp processing facility on the East Coast, recently opened by Biophil Natural Fibers in Lumberton, North Carolina.

Carpenter said the summit will cover “everything from seed to decortication … whatever type of segment of the fiber you want to use, we're going to have people here who are experts at it."

Carpenter has dedicated his life to natural fibers. He’s worked in fashion and apparel, international textile manufacturing, and policy development. After the Army and the Peace Corps, his professional journey in the apparel industry took him all over the world, eventually studying hemp fiber production in China. His vast industry knowledge is a pivotal resource as his home state of North Carolina ramps up hemp for textiles.

He brings an unmatched experience and credibility as the organizer of the summit.

Carpenter said this event follows in the tradition of the Montana Hemp Summit, hosted by IND Hemp in previous years, which means the summit will be less of a celebration of hemp and more of a working session to move the industry forward, and the people who attend are the people building the industry.

“They're not just out there promoting hemp for its magical powers or its halo of goodness… but figuring out ways to make money from it,” he said. “This is the place to be."

Also this week, we read a few hemp excerpts from USDA's 1913 Yearbook.

Register for the NIHC Global Industrial Hemp Fiber Summit here:

https://www.globalindustrialfibersummit.com

Read the USDA Yearbook of Agriculture, 1913 — Chapter on Hemp by Lyster Dewey:

https://archive.org/details/yearbookofusdept1913unit/page/282/mode/2up

News Nuggets

Texas Legislature Moves to Ban THC Hemp Products

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/05/21/texas-house-thc-hemp-senate-bill-3-ban/

Moldova Plants First Legal Hemp Fields

https://hempgazette.com/news/moldova-hemp-fields-hg2123/

Germany Introduces Hemp Flower Tax Stamps

https://hemptoday.net/german-hemp-flower-stamps/

Texas Poultry Farm Transforms to Hemp Cultivation

https://www.publicnewsservice.org/story/texas-farmers-move-from-poultry-to-hemp/a83734-1

Thanks to our sponsors:

IND HEMP

https://www.indhemp.com

Forever Green – Distributors of the KP4 Hemp Cutter

https://www.hempcutter.com

National Hemp Association

https://nationalhempassociation.org

This week’s episode of the Lancaster Farming Industrial Hemp Podcast unfolds in three acts, each exploring a different facet of the growing hemp industry — from a café built on hemp-based food, to a hands-on construction training, to a linguistic deep dive into the meaning of the word hemp.

Act 1: A Hemp Café in Mount Pleasant

The show begins with a conversation with longtime hemp entrepreneur Cindy Amick, whose new endeavor is the Planet Hemp Café, which opens June 7 in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania.

The café aims to showcase the full potential of hemp in everyday life  —from food and drinks to menus, uniforms and even countertops.

The menu centers on edestin protein derived from hemp hearts and used to create hemp-based meats, cheeses, dressings and baked goods. The café is designed to be a prototype for a future franchise model, with plans to expand into Hempfield Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, using American-grown hemp throughout its operations.

Act 2: Learning Hempcrete, the Hands-On Way

In early May, Americhanvre Cast Hemp hosted a hempcrete workshop at its headquarters in Barto, Pennsylvania. Attendees traveled from around the country to train on the Ereasyy spray-applied hempcrete system, an innovation originally developed in France by Damien Baumer, who was the lead instructor at the workshop. The event highlighted both the technical capabilities of the spray system and the growing interest in hemp-based construction solutions nationwide.

Act 3: Reclaiming the Word “Hemp”

The final act explores the evolving — and sometimes confusing — definition of the word hemp. Drawing from historical texts like Jack Herer’s "The Emperor Wears No Clothes," the 1913 USDA Yearbook, and a 1938 Popular Mechanics article, the segment makes a compelling case: historically and agriculturally, hemp has always referred to the fiber and grain parts of the cannabis plant, not the flower or its resin.

The episode argues that lumping intoxicating cannabinoids under the hemp banner dilutes its meaning and undermines the emerging fiber and grain sectors.

As host Eric Hurlock puts it: “If everything is hemp, then nothing is hemp.”

Learn more:

Planet Hemp Café http://planethempcafe.com/

Americhanvre

https://americhanvre.com/

USDA Yearbook 1913 – Hemp by Lyster Dewey (PDF)

https://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/IND43743691/PDF

Jack Herer’s "The Emperor Wears No Clothes"

https://jackherer.com/thebook

Popular Mechanics (1938): “New Billion-Dollar Crop”

https://hempology.org/PM1938Article.html

News Nuggets:

Ukraine opens major hemp processing facility

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dariosabaghi/2025/05/19/ukraine-launches-largest-industrial-hemp-processing-plant

University of San Diego study: Hemp vs. cotton

https://digital.sandiego.edu/ksb-sscm/10

Victory Hemp Foods expands Kentucky operations

https://www.foodbusinessnews.net/articles/28149-victory-hemp-foods-adds-processing-capacity

Calendar Events

June 20 – PA Fibershed tour at Buck Mason Mill

https://pafibershed.org/events/buckmasontour

June 26–27 – NIHH Hemp Building Workshop – IL https://nihh.org/

July 15–17 – Global Hemp Fiber Summit – NC

https://globalhempfiber.textiles.ncsu.edu/

Thanks to our Sponsors

HEMI – Hemp Education & Marketing Initiative

https://hempinitiatives.org/

Bish Enterprises – FiberCut Harvester

https://bishenterprise.com/