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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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29:10

USDA Hemp Report: Garbage In, Garbage Out

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2025/10/09

This week on the Hemp Show, we're talking to Brad Truman, a data analyst with CannaMarkets Group, about his recent deep dive into USDA’s hemp import data. His report, published in HempToday under the title When the Numbers Don’t Add Up: USDA’s Hemp Data Problem, raises serious questions about how hemp is being measured—and what those flawed numbers mean for farmers, investors, and policymakers. Truman walks us through the painstaking process of pulling USDA hemp data out of PDFs, analyzing

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43:01

Fighting Powdery Mildew With UV Light & Breeding Hemp...

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2025/10/01

On this week’s Hemp Show, we’re back at Cornell Agritech for part three of my Cornell trilogy. In this episode I visit plant pathologist Jane Hamilton, who’s testing UVC light as a non-chemical tool against powdery mildew, and Luis Monserrate from Larry Smart’s breeding program, where seed size, yield and chemotype drive decisions for grain and fiber growers. Next, we walk through Jane’s UV cabinet and the powdery mildew chamber, talking dose windows and why powdery mildew (unlike some fungi)

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43:36

Inside Cornell AgriTech: Germplasm, Robots and Hemp

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2025/09/26

On this week’s podcast, we continue our trip to Geneva, New York, for part two of the Cornell story. I spend some time with Christine Smart, director of Cornell AgriTech, and her husband Larry Smart, professor of plant breeding and genetics and head of Cornell’s hemp program. Christine takes me through the history of the Agritech campus — from its 1882 founding to its living plant libraries and cutting-edge robotics labs. We talk Liberty Hyde Bailey, the USDA germplasm repository, and a future where

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35:32

Grain & Fiber Hemp Field Day at Cornell 2025

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2025/09/23

On this week’s podcast, host Eric Hurlock travels to Geneva, New York, on the top of Seneca Lake to take part in Cornell’s Hemp Field day, held Thursday, Sept. 11. This episode covers both the morning and afternoon sessions for the field day. The day started in Jordan Hall on Cornell’s Agritech Campus, where hemp program director Larry Smart got things started with a reminder why we were there in the first place. “Hemp is an interesting crop, has a lot of potential, but there are some things that we

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34:29

The Godfather of Hempcrete: Steve Allin and the...

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2025/09/11

This week on the Lancaster Farming Industrial Hemp Podcast, we continue our focus on the 13th International Hemp Building Symposium, happening October 3–5 at the Lower Sioux Indian Community in Morton, Minnesota. First we talk to Matt Marino from Homeland Hempcrete, who shares how his North Dakota company is scaling with structural hemp insulated panels and why he’s excited to be a sponsor and participant in this year’s symposium. Then we talk with Steve Allin, founder of the International Hemp

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45:30

Dallas Goldtooth and Danny Desjarlais Preview the...

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2025/09/10

This week on the Hemp Show we’re looking ahead to the 13th Annual International Hemp Building Symposium being held October 3–5 at the Lower Sioux Indian Community in Minnesota. It’s the first time this global event has ever been held in the United States, and it promises to be a gathering that blends culture, sovereignty and sustainability with hands-on demonstrations and international expertise. First we hear from Danny Desjarlais, Hemp Project Manager at Lower Sioux, about what this symposium

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30:41

In Search Of: A Pennsylvania Hemp Textile Supply Chain

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2025/09/05

This week on the Lancaster Farming Industrial Hemp Podcast, we’re chasing down the beginnings of a Pennsylvania hemp fiber supply chain. We start the day in southern Lancaster County at Steve Groff’s farm, standing in the middle of what he calls his “hemp canyon,” with towering stalks over fifteen feet tall. Groff has about 60 acres of the Australian hemp variety MS-77, which seems to do well on Groff's farm. He's also working on a green decorticator. If the machine works as planned, it could

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40:47

Regenerative Hemp Field Day at Pocono Organics

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2025/08/27

This week on the hemp show we’re going to a field day at Pocono Organics. Not just any field day, but a hemp field day, which in my opinion, is the best kind of field. The Hemp Field Day at Pocono Organics was hosted in partnership with the Rodale Institute and Jefferson University, August 21, 2025 in Blakeslee, PA. One this episode we will talk to Ashley Walsh from Pocono Organics, Tara Caton from the Rodale Institute and Ron Kander from Jefferson University. ON this episode we will also hear from

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31:07

Sustainability Report: Does Hemp Live Up to the Hype?

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2025/08/21

This week on the Lancaster Farming Industrial Hemp Podcast we’re looking at hemp’s environmental promise. We’ve all heard the claim the hemp can save the planet—but what does the science really say? I talk with environmental scientist Lorelei Alvarez and strategist Joseph Carringer, co-authors of the brand-new Hemp and Sustainability Report, published by HempToday and CannaMarkets Group. Together, we dig into the evidence, the hype, and the responsibility that comes with hemp’s potential. The report

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55:38

Global Fiber Hemp Summit Box Set – Sides 5 and 6

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2025/08/15

This is the final installment of our special Global Hemp Fiber Summit Box Set. Sides 5 and 6 wrap up our coverage from Raleigh 2025, featuring voices from across the fiber hemp industry—from seasoned pioneers to fresh perspectives. Hear updates from long-time advocates, emerging researchers, farmers, processors, and policy influencers shaping the future of American hemp textiles. Side 5: Robert Jungman Jungmaven jungmaven.com Joe Hickey – longtime hemp advocate Gabriela Fioravanti – Thomas Jefferson

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Raleigh '25, Sides 3 and 4 of the Global Hemp Fiber...

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2025/08/06

Thanks for tuning in to the Hemp Show. This week we’re spinning sides 3 and 4 of our special box set recorded at the 2025 Global Industrial Hemp Fiber Summit in Raleigh, North Carolina, July 15 – 17, 2025. Side Three: Glen Kayll – CEO, The Hemp Plastic Company [00:00:51] https://www.hempplastic.com Joseph Carringer – HempToday / CannaMarkets Group [00:06:42] https://hemptoday.net Eric Henry – TS Designs [00:18:43] https://www.tsdesigns.com Andrew Bish – Bish Enterprises [00:25:08]

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55:28

Greg Wilson and the Golden Ratio of HempWood

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2025/08/05

We’re celebrating big news from western Kentucky — HempWood is opening their new factory on the HempWood Campus in Murray. It’s a big deal and it’s a big day. On this special HempWood episode, we catch up with Greg Wilson for a freewheeling conversation about flooring, farming, the Fibonacci sequence and the future of sustainable materials. From co-op growing systems and carbon credits to tornadoes, redneck hippies and 12-string guitar jams, this is a true journey through the World of Greg Wilson

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50:32

Global Fiber Hemp Summit Box Set: Sides 1 and 2

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2025/07/31

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

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52:18

The Fiber of Our Being: The NIHC Global Industrial...

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2025/07/25

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

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43:34

How to Nip Intoxicating Canabinoids in the Bud

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2025/07/11

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 —

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45:10

The PA Flax Project & The Return of American Linen

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2025/07/03

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

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52:43

The Etymology of Hemp and Why Words Matter

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2025/06/25

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

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37:50

Bast Fiber Tech and the Rise of Hemp in Nonwoven Hygiene

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2025/06/18

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

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43:20

Virginia Hemp Month, Responsible Hemp Standard &...

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2025/06/12

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

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41:49

Victory Hemp’s Processing Expansion and the Future of...

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2025/06/05

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

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