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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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01:01:38

Jean Lotus Trains an Eagle Eye on Hemp Building...

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2024/03/13

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 has written about various sectors of the hemp industry, her main area of interest is the hemp building sector. “I thought, jeez, this is a technology that’s been in use successfully in Europe for 30 years,” she said. “They’ve already made all the mistakes,

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01:10:24

Polish Entrepreneur Builds Hemp Textile Company After...

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2024/03/06

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 in the herbal and fiber division. Kowalski said the company takes a no-nonsense approach to floral production and extraction. “Which means basically we are not doing extraction, because nature does it best,” he said. Instead of a complicated chemical

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48:42

Changes to the PA Hemp Program & Getting to Know the...

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2024/02/28

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 to a performance-based testing system for growers who are growing either for fiber or grain,” Powers said. Performance-based testing, she said, will reduce the amount of testing needed by growers if they meet basic requirements. Reduced testing means

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55:29

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

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2024/02/21

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. Hoban has had a full-spectrum cannabis career, having worked extensively on both sides of the marijuana/hemp divide. A few years before the 2014 Farm Bill opened a legal pathway for hemp in the U.S., Hoban was approached by a company that wanted to sell CBD,

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01:05:49

Hemp Industry Farm Bill Priorities and Building an...

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2024/02/14

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 priorities for the next Farm Bill and the work the NIHC is doing to put hemp on a level playing field with other commodities in the eyes of the USDA. The NIHC has formed an informal coalition with more than 30 national and regional hemp groups and

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43:23

Panda Biotech Goes Big in Texas With High Plains Hemp...

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2024/02/07

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 the world when it opens this year. Evans said the processing technology comes from Europe and has a throughput of 10 metric tons per hour. As you might expect from a hemp gin in Texas, “It is a large line,” Evans said, “To my knowledge, the second

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01:22:55

Good News for Hemp Feed and Hempcrete in 2024

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2024/01/31

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 hemp space. One such piece of positivity comes to us from podcast guest Morgan Tweet, executive director of the Hemp Feed Coalition, a nonprofit organization working to gain federal approval for hemp grain as a commercial livestock feed. “The good news to share is we’ve completed a key milestone

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04:11

A Brief Message Before We Start the New Season

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2024/01/24

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: podcast@lancasterfarming.com. Thanks!

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53:09

Hempcrete Projects Push the Envelope in Massachusetts

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2023/12/20

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 gave me a tour of his newly built 6,000-square-foot house. “It may look like any other house here on the cape. We have cedar sidewall shingles on the house,” he said. “But ... the house is actually insulated with a biobased material called hemp lime, or

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01:06:43

Hempcrete with Cameron McIntosh

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2023/12/13

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. Sorry for the lack of details on this episode, but I'm trying to get everything done before i hit the road a mini hemp tour to Massachusetts. Americhanvre Cast-Hemp https://americhanvre.com/ News Nuggets Industrial hemp will be used to build affordable housing for farmworkers

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42:33

Positive Vibes With Noco Hemp Expo Founder Morris Beegle

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2023/12/06

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 mountain resort location where we can get 2,000-3,000 people up there and basically take over the town,” Beegle said. He expects it to be a good meet-up, full of constructive conversations on how to shape the industry, develop supply chains, influence regulation and do

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49:39

Pennsylvania Hemp Industry Council Courts Investors

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2023/11/29

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 money from the state ag department to attract capital investment with a program called Invest in PA Hemp. Last month, the organization released a series of videos and educational materials “specifically geared towards investors to help them

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47:03

Dama BioPlastics Forges Carbon Neutral Future with...

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2023/11/22

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 hemp and cannabis industries. Dietrich, Dama’s director of material science, said they’re not using industrial hemp exclusively, but of all the plant waste, “it’s one of the best that we’ve seen,” and the

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41:52

Cannabis Breeder Reflects on the Cultural Importance...

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2023/11/15

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 us. It’s clearly evolved with us,” he said, “when you talk about it from an endogenous cannabinoid perspective.” “Whatever we ask for, the plant seems to give,” he said. “Food, fuel, fiber — any of it, it’s giving us these incredible versions of it. So there’s

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58:15

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

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2023/11/08

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. Miteff said the company is a conglomerate of three other businesses that were exporting European genetics to the U.S. We “decided to kind of quit working against one another and try to make the industry successful. So we we became partners and

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44:55

Getting a Master’s Degree in Hemp from Cornell...

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2023/11/03

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 would give me a diploma just for showing up, but here in the real world, what if I actually wanted to get a degree in hemp? Where would I go? I would go to Cornell, of course. Cornell University offers a Master’s of Professional Studies in

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40:30

The Investment Opportunities of Industrial Hemp

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2023/11/01

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 jobs. To reach its potential, what the hemp industry needs most right now, Berard said, is capital investment. Last month, Berard published a report titled “Seeing the U.S. Industrial Hemp Opportunity — A Pioneering Venture for Investors and Corporations

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56:47

Can Hemp Seed Oil Reduce Inflammation in Horses?

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2023/10/25

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 defended her doctoral thesis at Virginia Tech, where she conducted a study to determine the effect hemp seed oil would have on inflammation in sedentary horses. She said inflammation is associated with but not a cause of a variety of

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45:16

Hemp at NC State with David Suchoff

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2023/10/18

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 of the Hemp Research Consortium. We talk about hemp in the South and why hemp for textiles makes sense in North Carolina and how his time in the Peace Corps informs his work in agriculture today, and how his musical education prepared him for success.

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55:52

Walking in the Valley of Hemp at Pure Shenandoah

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2023/10/04

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 several of his siblings operate a full-spectrum hemp facility in the Shenandoah Valley. They process cannabinoids using CO2 extraction while also developing a fiber processing facility and operating a retail store that doubles as an event space

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