Industrial Hemp Podcast

On this episode from our National Hemp Tour, we visit with Wendy Mosh, president and CEO of New West Genetics, in Fort Collins, Colorado. New West Genetics specializes in hemp genetics, breeding, and agribusiness, and their mission is to make sustainable, large-scale production of hemp fiber and grain a reality.  

On the next stop of the hemp tour, we stop in to see Morris Beegle in Fort Collins, Co. He is the founder of the NoCo Hemp Expo, as well as a bunch of other hemp product businesses, including Silver Mountain Hemp Guitars.  

The third stop on our National Hemp Tour was at South Bend Industrial Hemp in South Bend, Kansas, where Melissa, Aaron and Rich Baldwin hosted an open house on Friday, July 9. The Hurlock Family rolled in fashionably late to find a wonderful group of hemp farmers, entrepreneurs, and enthusiasts all gathered together to learn and share and enjoy each other's company on a warm Kansas evening. On thi...

This is episode 142, published from the road on July 8, 2021. On July 6, I stopped in at the Victory Hemp Foods plant in Carrolton, Kentucky to talk to Chad Rosen, founder and CEO of Victory. Victory Hemp Foods - American Grown, Non-GMO Hemp Ingredients https://www.victoryhempfoods.com/ Thanks to our sponsor: IND HEMP https://www.indhemp.com/

This is our first episode from the road. I talked to HempWood founder and CEO Greg Wilson, Dr. Tony Brannon from Murray State University, and Tommy Copeland, operations manager at HempWood.   HempWood - A Wood Substitute Made from Hemp Fibers https://hempwood.com/ Murray State University Center for Agricultural Hemp https://www.murraystate.edu Thanks to our sponsors: IND HEMP https://www.indhemp.c...

The big send off for the Lancaster Farming National Hemp Tour was Monday June 28, with Erica Stark and Geoff Whaling from the National Hemp Association, Dr. Alyssa Collins from Penn State, Mark Lowery from New Holland Agriculture and Pennsylvania Secretary of Agriculture Russell Redding. This episode is the audio from the panel discussion at the event. Thanks to everybody: New Holland Agriculture...

In part two of our sponsorship sunshine episode we talk to Robert Byrnes from Rosedowns, Taylor Fritz from King's Agriseeds, Michael Kealey from Terradon Hemp, and Cameron McIntosh from Americhanvre Cast Hemp. These organizations have sponsored Lancaster Farming's National Hemp Tour. Eric Hurlock is taking the show on the road this summer, reporting from various stops along the industrial hemp val...

This is part one of a two-part series. In part one, we talk to Jon Hundley and Brad Wenger from New Holland Agriculture, Erica Stark from the National Hemp Association, and Ken Elliot from IND HEMP. These three organizations have sponsored Lancaster Farming's National Hemp Tour. Eric Hurlock is taking the show on the road this summer, reporting from various stops along the industrial hemp value ch...

On this week's show, Eric invites listeners to the Hemp Tour Kick Off taking place on Monday, June 28, 2021, 3:30 to 5 p.m., at the Penn State Research Farm in Manheim, Lancaster County. Speakers to include PA Ag Secretary Russell Redding, folks from the National Hemp Association, New Holland Ag, and more. Preregister for the event here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lancaster-farming-national-hemp...

Farmers can and will save the world, according to Bruce Michael Dietzen, founder of Carbon Negative Technology and Renew Sports Cars. The prototype of his sports car made from industrial hemp was featured on an episode of Jay Leno's Garage. Bruce is tired of talking about the problem of climate change and instead wants to shift the conversation to the solutions for climate change, including a bold...

This is an encore presentation of an episode that was originally on July 10, 2019. According to Dr. Ron Kander, materials engineering professor at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, the way to ramp up the hemp industry is to start small. "You have to find some high-value, low-volume products that can use hemp as a biomass so that you can start developing processes that then let you put t...

This week, Lancaster Farming talks to someone in the hemp industry — He's not a farmer or a processor. He's not an inventor or a scientist. But he has a unique perspective on the industry. He's a journalist about to go on an epic road trip, visiting with hemp farmers and entrepreneurs across the county to help tell the story of hemp in America in 2021. Who is it? Listen and find out. News Nuggets...

Seth Crawford, co-founder of Oregon CBD, is Lancaster Farming's guest on this week's Industrial Hemp Podcast. The hemp seed production and breeding company has just made triploid hemp commercially available. In plant breeding, triploids are not new. It's a technique that lets breeders create seedless varieties of plants that cannot be pollinated — think seedless watermelons and seedless grapes. Bu...

On this week's hemp podcast we talk to Jonathon John, lab manager at Choice Extraction Inc. in Washington, Pennsylvania, where they focus on extraction and refinement of cannabinoid hemp. John talks about the extraction process and what farmers should expect from an extraction company – what's involved in the process, what questions should farmers be asking, what kind of output can you expect from...

This week's main guest is freelance writer Janet Burns, whose article How Cannabis Coevolved with Humanity and Could Save It Now was published on Forbes.com last year. She writes about humanity's long history with the cannabis plant, from the tectonic shift of the Tibetan Plain to the early days of agriculture through modern times, showing how the cannabis plant has influenced our biology, religio...

  The first guest on the hemp podcast this week is Fred Strathmeyer, deputy secretary of plant industry at the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture where he oversees the state's industrial hemp program. Strathmeyer said the application period for a hemp permits closed in early April and the state has issued 417 grower permits and 60 processor permits, down just slightly from last year. The state...

This week's podcast is the Steve Groff episode. Not only do we talk to cover crop pioneer Steve Groff from Cedar Meadow Farm in Holtwood, Lancaster County, where he's growing hemp and launching a brand of CBD products for people and pets, but we also check back in with Dr. Steve Groff from Groff North America and Wyndridge Farm in York County. Farmer Steve Groff explains how he is prepping his fie...

On this week's hemp podcast, we talk to David De Vore, R&D technical consultant with Leyton , an international funding innovation consulting firm that specializes in working with hemp farmers to take advantage of R&D tax credits offered by the IRS. According to De Vore, the tax credit offsets income tax liability directly, dollar for dollar, but the amount of tax credit available for farmers depen...

Hemp farmers have had a notoriously hard time when it comes to finding reliable financial services. Many hemp farmers can share stories of being dropped from a bank with very little notice when their bank got skittish about hemp. The reason for this, says West Town Banks executive vice president and chief operating officer Melissa Marsal, is that bank regulators see hemp overall as high risk busin...

On this week's podcast, we talk to Dr. Joyce Harman, a veterinarian practicing in Flint Hill, Virginia, who specializes in equine health. Dr. Harman has been using hemp as a supplement in horses' diets for nearly 30 years. She began adding hemp seed oil to horses' diets in the 1990s. She says that the high omega-3 fatty acids and other nutrients in hemp oil are extremely beneficial to the health o...

COEXIST Build is a design firm owned and operated by wife and husband team Anastasiya Konopatskaya and Drew Oberholtzer whose focus is on designing healthy, environmentally friendly buildings and supplying the industry with healthy building materials, such as hempcrete blocks and hemp batt insulation. We first interviewed Ana and Drew in 2019 when they had teamed up with Cameron McIntosh of Americ...

On this week's show, in honor of St. Patrick's Day, we learn about the hemp industry in Ireland from Chris Allen, the executive director of Hemp Federation Ireland, who says that the hemp industry and supply chain are well established on the Emerald Isle, but that recent policy decisions by the Irish government have made things very difficult for farmers to make a living. She said the agency that...

On this week's podcast, our guest is Eric Sandy, digital editor of Hemp Grower Magazine, one of the best resources hemp farmers have for learning about their crop and developing their craft. Based in Valley View, Ohio, Hemp Grower Magazine is published by GIE Media and focuses on exactly what the name of the magazine implies – growing hemp. They cover all sectors of the hemp industry from cannabin...

On this week's podcast, we talk to the two Pennsylvania state senators who announced a bill that would legalize adult use cannabis in the state. Senators Sharif Street and Daniel Laughlin, a Democrat and Republican respectively, said the bill prioritizes safety, social equity and agriculture. The senators say cannabis reform is attractive to both sides of the political spectrum: economic and liber...

This week on the podcast, Lancaster Farming talks to Andrew Bish, the COO of Bish Enterprises and the founder of Hemp Harvest Works, both in Giltner, Nebraska. Bish enterprises is known for its header adapters, and they do custom builds of large-scale headers and research headers for the soy and sorghum industries. Andrew Bish founded Hemp Harvest Works, under the Bish Enterprises umbrella, in 201...