Industrial Hemp Podcast

Click to read the full show notes . What's the industrial hemp program like in the great state of New York? We spend some time with Commissioner Richard Ball of the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets to find out. We'll hear about the permitting process for growers, available grant money for growers and processors, what farmers should be doing now to prepare for hemp, and we'll he...

Exciting news from the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture this week announcing the lift of the acreage cap on industrial hemp, a move that will usher in a new age of hemp in Pennsylvania by opening up the crop to commercial production. We talk to PA Hemp Industry Council executive director Erica Stark and Purple Peace Hemp founder Jessie Johnson about these changes and what they mean for farme...

Of the tens of thousands of uses of industrial hemp, one of the most practical is as a building material known as hempcrete, created by mixing the inner woody core of the hemp plant, known as the hurd, with lime. It's lightweight, insulating, naturally mold-resistant, and strong. An innovative company from Alberta, Canada, has gone a step further and has patented a structural hempcrete block that...

Our seventeenth podcast features a conversation with healthcare educator and consultant, Jessie Johnson, founder of Purple Peace, LLC , which holds a research permit for growing industrial hemp in Pennsylvania. With over 12 years of experience in growing cannabis, Ms. Johnson has a unique perspective on industrial hemp and is interested in helping farmers maximize their profits with 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...

The 2018 Farm Bill has passed both Houses and is awaiting the president's signature, which is expected this week. How is this going to affect farmers in Pennsylvania? What will become of the state's hemp pilot program? On the first part of the show we talk to Pennsylvania Secretary of Agriculture Russell Redding to find out. Then we talk to eighth generation fruit farmer, first generation hemp far...

We talk 2018 Farm Bill with Hemp Industry Daily editor Kristen Nichols. This Farm Bill will end the prohibition on growing hemp. What will this mean for farmers? How will the ag industry respond? What will USDA's rules look like? How will the FDA regulate CBD? All this and more. Listen up.

This episode of Lancaster Farming's industrial hemp podcast features a conversation with Jon Cohn, the founder and CEO of Agronomed Pharmaceuticals and Agri-Kind Hemp in Chester County, Pennsylvania, where he grew 62 acres of industrial hemp with a research permit from the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. We discuss the challenges of a first-year hemp crop, the permitting process, how CBD i...

On episode 12, we talk to professor of poultry science and poultry nutrition at Penn State University, Dr. Paul Patterson, about the components of a balanced poultry diet and how the nutritional profile of hemp seed might be beneficial to the poultry industry, especially the organic poultry industry, thanks in part to hemp's comparatively higher levels of the essential amino acid methionine. Dr. P...

This week on the hemp podcast, we talk to Elixinol president Gabriel Ettenson about growing hemp for CBD. What is CBD and why is it suddenly everywhere? What is it good for? What will the hemp industry look like after the next Farm Bill? What should farmers know before growing hemp for CBD?

The latest Lancaster Farming podcast goes to Dearborn, Michigan, where Ford Motor Company research scientist Debbie Mielewski turns plants into car parts. This interview shines a light on the potential market for industrial hemp fueled by the automobile industry's evolution towards sustainability.

We're back talking about industrial hemp — this time with a cannabis lawyer from Portland, Oregon. Nathalie Bougenies, from the law firm of Harris Bricken , specializes in cannabis law and also writes for the Canna Law Blog . Today we discuss the 2018 Farm Bill and its implications for hemp farmers in the United States.

We begin digging in a little deeper into how the auto industry might want to use hemp in automobile production. And we also make the realization that the 2014 Farm Bill expired and the 2018 Farm Bill wasn't signed into law by the deadline of September 30. Where does that leave hemp farmers? Editor's Note: This podcast was updated on October 13, 2018 at 3:21 PM with an additional comment from PA Ag...

Episode 7 continues with industrial hemp as we visit with Dr. Alyssa Collins, agronomy professor and director of the Penn State's research farm in Lancaster County Pennsylvania. We discuss the hemp research trials, the agronomics of hemp, the differences between hemp and marijuana and what farmers could be doing now to prepare themselves for what could be the next big commodity crop headed their w...

Hemp was grown throughout Pennsylvania for nearly 300 years, but in the past 80 years it's been illegal to grow. Today we talk to hemp historian Les Stark who has documented the history of hemp in the state in his book Hempstone Heritage. We also discuss why hemp disappeared 80 years ago. Was it a conspiracy? Stark has been on a 20 year mission to bring industrial hemp back into production in the...

We talk to Erica McBride, the Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Hemp Industry Council, about the many uses of industrial hemp, from fiber to fuel, manufacturing to medicine.

How can farmers make sure they don't get the short end of the stick when it comes to industrial hemp? We talk to Rodale Institute farm manager Ross Duffield, National Hemp Council chairman Geoff Whaling, and Senator Judy Schwank to find out.

We continue our discussion of industrial hemp, talking to Pennsylvania Secretary of Agriculture, Russell Redding, who shares his unique perspective on hemp. We discuss the marijuana stigma, how to build a supply chain and what farmers can be doing to now to prepare for this new yet old crop.

Click for show notes. We talk to Geoff Whaling, chairman of the National Hemp Association, who offers his insight into building a supply chain for the nascent hemp industry in Pennsylvania and how the legal landscape has changed for industrial hemp just in the past few years.

Click for show notes. We talk with the farm manager at the Rodale Institute about growing industrial hemp. Rodale was one of 14 permit holders in the 2017 Hemp Pilot Program in Pennsylvania.

Podcast host and creator, Eric Hurlock sketches out his vision for what will ultimately become the Lancaster Farming Podcast. It's a quick glimpse into the history of farming and just how crucial agriculture has been in the development of humankind.