Industrial Hemp Podcast

This week on the Hemp Podcast, Lancaster Farming talks to Wendy Mosher, president and CEO of New West Genetics, a Colorado-based hemp seed company focused on genomics, seed breeding and agribusiness. Mosher discusses an initiative the company is working on with several other stakeholders, including International Hemp and King's AgriSeeds, called "Value the Seed" that promotes certified seed as a w...

On this week's hemp podcast, Lancaster Farming continues checking in with hemp producers around the country. Ray DePriest, from SunRay Hemp, tells us about growing hemp at 62 degrees north latitude in Palmer, Alaska — 60 miles north of Anchorage — where his family's been farming since the 1930s, first as potato farmers, then dairy. Now they focus primarily on hay. This is Ray's third year of growi...

This week on the Hemp Podcast, Lancaster Farming talks to farmers around the country and the world about spring planting — what they've got in the ground, how much hemp they're growing this year, what conditions are like in the field, and more. We talk to several Pennsylvania farmers, as well as folks in Missouri, Kansas, North Carolina, Michigan and more, including an exclusive interview with Rom...

This week on the podcast we talk to Mike Leago, founder and CEO of iHempx in Colorado . Formally known as the International Hemp Exchange, iHempx has become one of the industry's go-to sources for genetics, processing equipment, farmer resources and more, serving all sectors of the industry, from cannabinoid flower to fiber and grain and everything in between. Leago tells the tale of how he starte...

On this week's podcast, Lancaster Farming talks to Jordan Berger, a filmmaker and hemp farmer from Tennessee. His work with the crop has inspired him to embark on a seven-part documentary series to bring the story of hemp to a wider audience. In 2019, Berger grew his first hemp crop, about an acre of CBD plants at his small farm outside of Chattanooga. He said he learned a lot from growing the cro...

"You can't just run around saying hemp is going to save the planet. You can't just say it. You have to have some definitive numbers and some science behind it. And that can be shown to the people that are in power. They still may not listen, but when you have hard numbers, it makes your argument a whole lot better." That's what Bruce Dietzen, guest on this week's Industrial Hemp Podcast, says. Dei...

This week we give a recap of the 2022 Pennsylvania Hemp Summit Expo that took place in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, April 26 and 27 at the Lancaster County Convention Center. First we talk to Lancaster Farming's digital content editor Dan Sullivan who covered the event for the newspaper and also emceed the Shark Tank competition. After the conversation with Dan, we hear Pennsylvania Ag Secretary Russe...

When it comes to hemp there are two distinct sectors — industrial and floral hemp. Industrial hemp involves the industrial application for the grain, fiber and hurd of the crop. Floral hemp focuses on harvesting the flowers of the plant for medicinal uses like CBD. These different arenas of hemp require different farming practices, different genetics, and different equipment. The problem is that t...

This week on the podcast, Lancaster Farming talks to Blake Alexandre from Alexandre Family Farm in northern California, America's first certified regenerative dairy. "We've got a phenomenal growing season out here, that is our winter temperatures and our summer temperatures are only 11 degrees apart," Alexandre said. "So we literally have grass growing all year long and, you know, just very produc...

One of the barriers to building residential homes with hempcrete is that there's no mention of hempcrete in any of the building codes that set the standards for health and safety in the construction industry. Most municipalities in the U.S. look to the International Code Council for direction. Hempcrete's absence from these codes leaves local building inspectors scratching their heads when it come...

This is the final installment of a four-part series consisting of conversations recorded at the NoCo Hemp Expo in Denver, CO, on March 24-25, 2022. On this episode we talk to Joe Hickey, a Kentucky businessman who has been in the hemp industry for over 30 years. He is the founder of the Kentucky Hemp Growers Cooperative and currently works with Halcyon Technology Holding. He also worked with actor...

This is the third installment of a four-part series consisting of conversations recorded at the NoCo Hemp Expo in Denver, CO, on March 25, 2022. On this episode we talk to author and photographer Maren Krings, a German storyteller whose most recent book is called H is for Hemp, which documents her travels around the world, visiting 4 continents and conducting hundreds of interviews documenting how...

This is the second episode in a series of four special episodes of the podcast consisting of conversations recorded at the NoCo Hemp Expo in Denver, Colorado, on March 25, 2022. We talk to James J.J. Johnson about his work educating the public about industrial hemp. Johnson retired from the US Air Force after 21 years and returned home with debilitating PTSD. Through his work in the hemp space, he...

This is the first episode in a series of four special episodes of the podcast. First we talk to Sergiy Kovalenkov, a Ukrainian hempcrete builder and businessman. He is the CEO of Hempire and is a founding member of the US Hemp Building Association. He sat down with Lancaster Farming on March 25, 2022, at the NoCo Hemp Expo in Denver Colorado. We discuss the hemp building industry in Ukraine and th...

Bob Daniell is president and CEO of a small startup company called American Hemp Corporation in Reno, Nevada, where they are working with farmers to build the hemp industry in the Silver State. Focused on fiber and grain production and processing, Daniell sees huge potential in Nevada and the surrounding region. "Nevada grows 385,000 acres of the world's finest alfalfa hay," Daniell said. "I'd lik...

Jessica De Luise – The Wellness Kitchenista – joins us on the podcast this week to talk about the nutritional value of hemp seed and hemp oil and how to incorporate these nutritious hemp ingredients into your kitchen routines. Plus, she shares her latest venture as the co-founder of Intention Lifestyles , a company focused on research, product development, and public education around hemp grain, f...

On this week's podcast, we continue what appears to be an annual tradition on the show — the Steve Groff Squared episode. First we talk to Dr. Steve Groff from Groff North America, who made an early yet bold move in the Pennsylvania hemp space by contracting 2,000 acres of fiber hemp in 2019 and also brought the first large scale decorticator — the HempTrain — to the state. Last year, he made an i...

This week on the Lancaster Farming Podcast, our guest is Morgan Tweet, executive director of the Hemp Feed Coalition , a non-profit organization whose mission is to gain federal approval for hemp and its byproducts as animal feed to create new markets. Last month, in response to the results the HFC helped achieve in Montana and Pennsylvania, the Association of American Feed Control Officials wrote...

On this week's Industrial Hemp Podcast, host Eric Hurlock takes a trip to Denver, Colorado, to attend the National Farmers Union annual Convention where he was presented with the Milton D. Hakel award for Excellence in Agricultural Journalism. While at the convention Hurlock conducted a joint interview with FSA administrator Zach Ducheneaux and FSA State Executive Director for Pennsylvania Heidi S...

On this week's podcast, we talk to Tim Almond, founder and chairman of Heartland Industries, a Detroit-based biotech company that was awarded funding through USDA's Conservation Innovation Grant program for their Hemp4Soil project that studies hemp's effect on soil health when in a rotation with corn and soy. We also talk to farmer and ag educator Aaron de Long about his upcoming adventure as a Nu...

On this week's podcast we talk to Victor-Alan Weeks and Jalen Madden, founders of 404 Twenty, a hemp start-up in Yanceyville, North Carolina. They had originally planned to start the business in Georgia where they're from, but they found North Carolina to be more receptive. They talk about the success and challenges they've faced as young Black entrepreneurs in the hemp space. They are taking what...

On this week's podcast we talk to Ben Dobson who's turned his farm in the Hudson Valley into soil laboratory studying how regenerative farming can maximize carbon capture and restore ecosystems. Plus, Cameron McIntosh shares news about an American version of the Ereasy Spray-Applied Hempcrete System. Hudson Carbon https://www.hudsoncarbon.com/ Hudson Hemp https://www.hudsonhemp.com/ Recommended Re...

On this week's podcast, we embark on our journey of discovery into regenerative agriculture – what it is, what makes it different from conventional agriculture, and why it's important. The first stop on the journey is a conversation with regenerative farmer, Mike Lewis. We'll hear about his work as a sustainable ag specialist at the National Center for Appropriate Technology, as well as his holist...

The Lancaster Farming Industrial Hemp Podcast is back! After several weeks' hiatus, the show returns with a new focus. While committed to covering the emerging hemp industry, the show will expanding it's focus to include other ag-related topics -- things that harmonize with the message of hemp, things like regenerative agriculture, carbon sequestration, and how farmers are saving the world. On thi...

The end of the year is finally here. On this ultimate episode of 2021, we first talk to Erica Stark from the National Hemp Association. She gives her take on the state of the Industry in 2021 and what she's looking forward to in the year ahead – especially the next Farm Bill. Then we talk to Marty Clemons from the Southeast Hemp Association. We discuss how the industry will move forward in the new...