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Industrial Hemp Podcast

Eric Hurlock, Digital Editor

Lancaster Farming newspaper editors talk to farmers and experts about industrial hemp.

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30:33

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

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2023/09/14

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 the state of Maryland,” Bennett said. “On a commercial scale, it's never been done.” He said the company is growing several different varieties and experimenting with seeding rates across a handful of Maryland farms “to understand how this plant reacts in

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45:47

Innovative Hemp Harvest at Cedar Meadow Farm

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2023/09/06

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 he wasn’t able to get one in time, so he did the best he could. “What we did this year,” he said, “is just farmer innovation.” He had his local machine shop mount a sickle bar cutter on the front of his tractor. In the back, he had a pulled standard rear mount sickle bar

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42:51

Flax is Linen, Linen is Flax

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2023/08/30

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 last week in Chester County, Pa. Heidi Barr wants you to know that flax is linen and linen is flax. A fiber artist based in Philadelphia, Barr co-founded the Pennsylvania Flax Project with Chester County farmer Emma de Long in 2020, “out of a desire to see a climate-beneficial textile

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01:10:09

Hemp Vision Becomes Reality for Lower Sioux

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2023/08/23

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, we share with you the first episode of the JD Experience, a podcast made by 12-year-old Jesse Desjarlais, who interviews two members of his tribe who have been busy making hemp a reality on the reservation: Earl Pendleton and Joey Goodthunder. Desjarlais is the son

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43:26

Industrial Hemp, Ag Progress, Fiddle Fest and More

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2023/08/16

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 hold on tight. First we talk to Ag Progress Days attendee John Borders, an 83year old who just wanted to sit on a bench. Then we travel to Brush Mountain to visit with Herb Grove, hemp farmer and bison rancher. Then it's off to the 94th Annual Old Fiddler's Picnic in Chester

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35:49

Making Hemp Sound Great with Hemptone Music

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2023/08/09

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 of making the guitars and the journey he’s undertaken to improve his production methods. Burstein was first on the podcast in early 2019. Back then he was using clay and fiberglass to make molds to shape the body of the instruments, but he’s since

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53:30

Can Hemp Keep Its Cool in the Textile World?

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2023/08/02

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 sustainability goals. Marquardt is based outside of Washington, D.C., and said Textile Exchange has about 140 employees working in 30 countries. “There is such huge demand on the part of brands in particular trying to figure out how to green

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48:29

Meet Me in Montana

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2023/07/29

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 this page with a list of the people I interviewed, but now I'm home and happy to be here and grateful to have gone to Montana to witness the event. -=-=-=- On this episode you will hear from: Ken Elliott and Morgan Tweet from IND HEMP, Jordan Berger and Maxwell Duryea from Sunflower

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43:12

Hemp Research and Variety Trials with Penn State's...

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2023/07/19

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 research trials. Penn State Extension’s mission is to deliver science-based information to people, businesses and communities. “The Extension part of what Penn State is,” said Collins, “is basically turning what nerds in

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01:18:23

Highway to Hemp: On the Road With Owen Deitcher

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2023/07/12

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, is to understand where the industry is at the moment, who the main players are and what challenges they face. Deitcher sees a disconnect in the minds of the public and wants to shed some light on the journey from hemp in the field to end-products. "We don't really know

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40:17

Agronomist Talks Growing Hemp in Montana

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2023/06/28

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, Wittmer has been chin deep in agriculture his whole life. “I worked on a farm since I was 12 and just been around livestock — cattle, pigs, a little bit of turkeys. And row cropping, corn and soybeans mainly, so I've had a pretty good learning experience

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51:35

First Fiber & Grain Hemp in Connecticut

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2023/06/21

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 century, but was made a legal commodity crop by the 2018 Farm Bill. “I started in 2021 growing for CBD, and last year again I grew for CBD, but I lost money,” he said. He became intrigued with all of the other uses for industrial hemp, including hempcrete for construction. In April, he

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50:46

Pennsylvania Hemp Engine Ready to Roll

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2023/06/14

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 Science Foundation, the Pennsylvania Industrial Hemp Engine Development Project is a strategic planning effort aimed at creating an innovative and inclusive economic ecosystem centered on industrial hemp. Spearheaded by Vytal Plant Science Research and

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01:01:30

Hemp Katalyst and Meta iHemp

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2023/06/07

On this week's show we talk to Duane Shugars from Hemp Katalyst and the digital platform Metaihemp, which aims to bring together various parts of the industrial hemp supply chain making it easier for farmers to grow exactly what manufacturers are looking for. Learn more: Hemp Katalyst https://www.hempkatalyst.com/ Meta iHemp https://www.metaihemp.com/pages/index.html Hemp News Nuggets Contact your representatives about the Industrial Hemp Act of 2023. Tell them you support the Hemp Exemption and

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01:00:34

Bonus Episode: Soil Health, Cover Crops, Regenerative...

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2023/06/06

This special bonus episode was recorded at Cedar Meadow Farm in Holtwood, Pennsylvania, where Steve Groff has been practicing no-till farming for over 30 years, and this year he has planted 50 acres of fiber hemp into his no-till system. Andrew Bish from Hemp Harvest Works and the Hemp Feed Coalition was on his way from Nebraska to Washington to lobby for hemp as an animal feed when he stopped by Steve's farm. Sarah Mitchell, hemp specialist from King's Agriseed was there too and the three of them

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43:15

Hemp Farmers Play the Rain Game

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2023/05/31

It’s that time of year again — time to get your hemp seeds in the ground. On this week’s podcast, we check in with a handful of farmers (and one processor) to hear how things are going. What varieties are they planting, how much acreage, how’s the weather? First we talk to Herb Grove, farmer and bison rancher in Center County, Pennsylvania, who said he’s looking to put in about 45 acres of grain hemp this year but hasn't planted yet because of the lack of rain. “I don't think there's much hurry

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01:10:15

Hemp Tampons: Traceability from Farm to Vagina

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2023/05/24

Half the people in the world menstruate, but nearly no one knows exactly what feminine hygiene products are made of and how those materials may be affecting the health outcomes of the people using the products, according to Claire Crunk, founder and CEO of Trace Femcare. “Part of why there is so little transparency in period products, Crunk said, “is because the supply chain is global, complex and opaque, and the solution to that is to build regionalized supply chains that are brand-led and very

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01:11:07

Alejandra Diaz: Hemp Advocacy and Education, and Hemp...

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2023/05/17

This week on the hemp podcast, Lancaster Farming talks with Alejandra Diaz, a hemp entrepreneur, educator and activist from Los Angeles. Diaz does business development and sales for Hemp Fortex, a Chinese manufacturer of sustainable textiles with a specialization in hemp fabrics. “Most of our fiber comes from China, and currently sourcing some from France as well,” Diaz said. “And (we are) now looking to the U.S. and other parts of the world to source fiber.” Diaz has been a leader in her community,

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01:07:24

Colorado Hemp Legislation May Do More Harm Than Good

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2023/05/10

On this week’s hemp podcast, Lancaster Farming talks with Hunter Buffington, a Colorado-based hemp policy expert with Agriculture Policy Solutions. She shares her concerns about legislation in the Colorado House of Representatives that she says threatens the hemp industry nationwide. SB23-271 attempts to address the the issue of intoxicating cannabinoids such as delta-8 THC, a synthetic compound derived from hemp with similar effects to marijuana. Synthetic cannabionoids currently occupy a gray area

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21:17

Free to Grow Act Aims to End Discriminatory Hemp Policy

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2023/05/02

This week on the Hemp Podcast, U.S. Congressman David Trone, a Democrat from Maryland’s sixth district, is our guest. Trone recently introduced The Free to Grow Act, which he says will end discriminatory policies that are keeping people from entering the job market in the hemp industry. The 2018 Farm Bill which legalized industrial hemp as a commodity crop prohibited anyone with a felony drug conviction in the past 10 years from obtaining a license to grow hemp. Trone believes this prohibition goes

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