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10th Annual NoCo Hemp Expo Gathers Many Voices
Lancaster Farming Industrial Hemp Podcast
04/17/24 • 59 min
This week’s hemp podcast is a recap of the 10th annual NoCo Hemp Expo in Estes Park, Colorado, April 11-13, where industry stakeholders gathered to collaborate, commiserate and celebrate the state of hemp in 2024.
The episode features voices from many attendees, including Colorado Gov. Jared Polis.
“We’re really all hands on deck to make sure Colorado continues to be an ag powerhouse, and hemp is a big part of that,” Polis said.
State Ag Commissioner Kate Greenberg agreed with the governor and said the “conversation is really just diversified in what hemp is capable of.”
Hemp researcher Przemyslaw Baraniecki came all the way from the Institute of Natural Fibres and Medicinal Plants in Poland, where hemp was never prohibited yet still carries a stigma.
“In Europe, when you when you say to someone on the street ‘hemp,’ they will smile and treat it as something, let’s say, spicy,” Baraniecki said.
Karll Lecher from Dakota Hemp Co. in South Dakota echoed those sentiments and the industry is being held back by conflicting messaging.
“We just need one unifying voice to enlighten the public about hemp and maybe get rid of some of those stigmas,” he said.
The Hemp Twins — Abigail and Noemy Cuevas — from Los Angeles have been hosting workshops and events back home for years to educate the public and spread the message of hemp.
For Noemy, hempcrete construction is one of the bright spots in the hemp industry.
“Living in Los Angeles, California, we have a lot of wildfires, so if we would have hemp building, then we will be able to save people’s homes, people’s lives,” she said.
Andrew Bish from Hemp Harvest Works, an equipment manufacturer from Nebraska, was showcasing a recent research-scale decorticator.
“We produced this for universities around the country, as well as processors that want to work to ultimately grade their herd and fiber products,” he said.
You will hear many voices from all over the world on this week’s show, plus you’ll hear about the time spent with Danny DesJarlais and the crew from the Lower Sioux from Minnesota.
Thank you to the following voices featured in this week's episode:
Andrew Bish, Hemp Harvest works
Colorado Office of the Governor
Abigail and Noemy Cuevas, The Hemp Twins, Hemp Traders
Bethany Niebauer, Industrial Hemp Research Foundation
Przemyslaw Baraniecki, Institute of Natural Fibres and Medicinal Plants
Thanks to our sponsors!
IND HEMP
Americhanvre
Forever Green
SunRay Hemp
Music Courtesy of Tin Bird Shadow.
Building a Hemp Hub in Northern Illinois with Kifcure
Lancaster Farming Industrial Hemp Podcast
06/26/24 • 114 min
This week on the Hemp Podcast, Lancaster Farming talks with Kelly Burke from Kifcure, an Illinois-based hemp company that is focused on developing the hemp industry in the Land of Lincoln.
Burke, along with her husband Jarett, have launched the Northern Illinois Hemp Hub, which recently hosted a hempcrete workshop in Maple Park, sixty miles west of Chicago.
They are also growing about 1000 aces of industrial hemp and are developing plans for a processing facility, industrial park, and education center.
On this episode, we will hear all about their endeavors, including Silver Acres, a hemp wedding venue and event space, and Silver Lining animal bedding.
Plus, we check in with Lancaster County Hemp farmer Steve Groff to hear how his hemp crop is holding up after two weeks of scorching heat and no rain.
All that, plus news nuggets and a few surprises.
Learn More:
Kifcure
Northern Illinois Hemp Hub
News Nuggets
Think tank says ‘Miller Amendment’ would not ban CBD and other hemp cannabinoids
‘Hemp Killing’ Amendment Would Not Ban All Hemp Cannabinoids, Says Leading Think Tank
New Congressional report finds hemp amendment consistent with Ag policy
Industrial Hemp Market Set to Surge to $25.7 Billion by 2034
https://mgmagazine.com/cannabis-news/industrial-hemp-market-set-to-surge-to-25-7-billion-by-2034/
Canadian hemp fields shrink for fourth straight year, reaching modern-day low
https://hemptoday.net/canadian-hemp-fields-shrink-for-fourth-straight-year-reaching-modern-day-low/
South Dakota No. 1 state in nation for hemp production
https://www.sdnewswatch.org/south-dakota-hemp-production-sdiha-farm-bill/
Midwest flooding devastation comes into focus as flood warnings are extended in other areas
https://apnews.com/article/midwest-flooding-south-dakota-4b9fbfe8918e7a7e3c18178cb92b11a8
Thanks to our Sponsors!
IND HEMP
Forever Green
Mpactful Ventures
https://www.mpactfulventures.org/
music by TIN BIRD SHADOW
www.tinbirdshadow.com
Hemp Industry Farm Bill Priorities and Building an Overseas Market for U.S. Hemp
Lancaster Farming Industrial Hemp Podcast
02/14/24 • 65 min
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 associations, including the US. Hemp Round Table and the Hemp Industries Association, to develop a list of issues they would like addressed by Congress in the Farm Bill.
Unlike more mature ag industries that usually advocate and lobby as a unified front, the hemp industry groups haven’t coalesced into a single voice, which makes it confusing for policy makers who rely on industry insiders for information and education about a given industry.
“On Capitol Hill, I get that all the time, ‘There’s so many groups, who do we listen to?’ type of thing,” Atagi said.
The Farm Bill priorities list is an attempt to bring the industry together, but because the hemp plant can be used for everything from medicine to houses to biofuels, the industry naturally has many voices.
But some consensus was achieved, Atagi said.
The list of industry priorities includes: regulating CBD and other ingredients derived from hemp, reducing regulatory requirements for producers of hemp fiber and hemp grain, permitting hemp grain as a commercial livestock feed, and raising the THC limit of hemp to 1% from 0.3%.
Atagi also talks about NIHC’s work developing overseas markets for American hemp products. He said the NIHC was recently granted cooperator status in the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) Market Access Program.
He said this new status puts hemp on a level playing field with other ag industries.
“This means that we're on par with cotton, we're on par with grain. We're on par with 75 other commodities,” he said.
What will that mean for the industry?
Listen and find out. National Industrial Hemp Council of America https://nihcoa.com/
Thanks to our Sponsors! IND Hemp https://indhemp.com/
Mpactful Ventures https://www.mpactfulventures.org/
Forever Green, distributors of the KP-4 Hemp Cutter https://www.hempcutter.com/
Hemp-It: How a French Seed Propagator Meets the Demands of a Growing Industry
Lancaster Farming Industrial Hemp Podcast
08/15/24 • 60 min
In this week’s episode of the Industrial Hemp Podcast, Lancaster Farming talks with Jean-Eric Ponthou from Hemp-It and Robin Destiche from KonopiUS.
Ponthou is the manager of sales and development at Hemp-It, a French company established in 1965 that produces certified industrial hemp seeds.
“It’s the only company in France producing certified industrial seeds at international standards,” Ponthou said.
Located about 180 miles southwest of Paris, the company has 30 employees at the headquarters and works with a co-op network of nearly 150 farmers to produce about 2,000 tons of hemp seed annually.
“It’s a co-op company,” Ponthou said, “which means every farmer has one share in the company, so we’re all equal.”
He said Hemp-It produces about 15 different varieties of industrial hemp, and each of these varieties targets some specific market segment: grain, hurd or fiber.
According to a 2023 report by Textile Exchange, France is the largest producer of hemp fiber by volume in the world.
Destiche is one of the founders of KonopiUS, a seed distribution and agronomy company in Virginia, and he has been working with Hemp-It for several years.
Destiche explained how Europe operates from a database of approved varieties, varieties that have already been tested for morphology, stability and THC.
“I think currently there’s over 100 hemp varieties that are registered,” he said.
Hemp-It has also developed several varieties of hemp that contain no THC.
“This way, we open the gate to the food industry, because we can guarantee to get them the lowest the rate of THC as possible,” Ponthou said.
THC is the naturally occurring chemical compound in the hemp plant which at higher levels cause the psychoactive affects associated with marijuana.
THC-free varieties of hemp grain might be a way forward for hemp grain producers who took issue with last week’s historic vote by the American Association of Feed Control Officials to allow hemp seed meal as an ingredient for feed for laying hens.
Various international groups said the THC thresholds in the feed definition were too low and would be hard to reach.
Maybe THC-free grain is the way to go.
Learn More: Hemp-It KonopiUS Thanks to our Sponsors IND HEMP Forever Green Mpactful Ventures Music by Tin Bird Shadow
Hemp Fiber & Grain Field Day at Cornell AgriTech
Lancaster Farming Industrial Hemp Podcast
09/18/24 • 77 min
On the latest episode of the Hemp Podcast, we take the show on the road once more — this time to Cornell University’s Hemp Fiber and Grain Field Day at the Agritech Campus in Geneva, New York.
Among the many voices on this episode is Christine Smart, director of Cornell Agritech, who’s leading groundbreaking work on hemp diseases and crop resilience.
Hailee Greene, a recent Cornell MBA grad and founder of GreeneAcres Processing, talks about her ambitious plans to establish the first full-scale hemp-processing facility in New York, despite the financial challenges that lie ahead.
“We’re a couple million dollars away, which is probably the story of everybody that says they want to do processing at this point,” she said.
I also spoke with Maciej Kowalski, a Polish hemp entrepreneur who just wrapped up a trip around the U.S. to learn more about hemp processing.
He highlighted the disconnect he sees in the U.S. between farmers and textile manufacturers, stressing that fiber quality must start in the field.
“The textile people don’t care about what’s happening in the field, and the cultivators don’t care about what happens afterward. That’s not the way to make a good product,” he said.
Shelby Ellison, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is working to collect and preserve feral hemp genetics from across the U.S., preserving the genetic diversity of hemp, which can be used to breed more resilient and adaptive varieties.
So far, she and her team have collected more than 1,500 individual plant samples across 14 different states in the U.S.
Pennsylvania hempcrete builder Cameron McIntosh talks about the growing interest from federal agencies, including the Department of Energy, in addressing not only operational emissions but also the embodied carbon in construction materials.
We also hear from Pennsylvania hemp farmer Steve Groff, who shares a remarkable story about seeing an albino deer on his drive to Geneva.
Groff’s white deer might be a good omen for the industry, but it’s definitely a good omen for this episode of the podcast.
Thanks to Our Sponsors!Music by Tin Bird Shadow
Dama BioPlastics Forges Carbon Neutral Future with Swedish Automaker Polestar
Lancaster Farming Industrial Hemp Podcast
11/22/23 • 47 min
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 carbon makeup of the hemp waste “is quite high, 40% to 45%,” he said.
“Then we convert that material into usable drop-in replacements for automotive plastics (and) the construction industries,” said founder and CEO Gibbs.
One of the products the company makes is called Dama Black, a bio-based replacement for carbon black, a material widely used in petroleum-based plastics.
“Carbon black is a fossil fuel byproduct,” Gibbs said. “Basically, it’s the soot inside the chimneys when they’re burning material that gets added to plastics to generate the black colorant and UV protection.”
Carbon black is ubiquitous — from tires to toys, electronics to car parts. It is in nearly every black plastic in use today, Gibbs said.
Because Dama Black is a carbon negative bio-based material, it is very attractive to automakers seeking to de-carbonize their vehicles and production lines.
One such company is Swedish automaker Polestar, which has set ambitious climate-carbon goals for its fleet of electric cars.
Polestar is partnering with Dama BioPlastics for the Polestar 0 Project which aims to eliminate — not just reduce — all greenhouse gas emissions from every aspect of production by 2030.
Gibbs said Dama BioPlastics is one of the only exclusive North American partners “for the Polestar 0 project for all of their electric vehicles going forward.”
Gibbs said Dama Black will be used in everything that would normally be used in traditional petroleum plastic, from interior pieces and window switches to dashboards and exterior trim.
“We’re even looking into the automotive tires and the rubber seal, the gear around the door frames and everything,” he said.
Gibbs said his company is also working with the Polestar team “to eliminate the massive volume of different types of polymers that are used in vehicles” which, he said, can number between 40 and 50 different materials.
“We want to shrink that down into a smaller number, so it’s more easily recycled,” he said.
420 Special: Rumble Strip – John Rodgers Weed Farmer
Lancaster Farming Industrial Hemp Podcast
04/20/24 • 27 min
On this 420 Bonus show, we share an episode of one of our favorite podcasts, Rumble Strip. It’s made by Erica Heilman who tells stories of rural Vermont.
On this episode she interviews Vermonter John Rodgers, a stonemason the Northeast Kingdom, where he also runs a construction business, plows driveways and rents properties, and for sixteen years he served in the Vermont Legislature in both the House and the Senate.
He works all the time so he can hold onto the farm that's been in his family for 200 years. It was a dairy when he was growing up there. Now he's growing weed for Vermont retailers.
Thank you to Erica Heilman at Rumble Strip for letting us share this episode!
Please go to her website and listen to more episodes of Rumble Strip: https://www.rumblestripvermont.com/
Cannabis Breeder Reflects on the Cultural Importance of Hemp
Lancaster Farming Industrial Hemp Podcast
11/15/23 • 41 min
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 clearly been a parallel evolution.”
Klettke has been working internationally with the cannabis plant since the early 1990s and shares many tales from his experience on this episode.
While living and working in Copenhagen in the 1990s, he caught a glimpse of the cannabis trade that has existed internationally for thousands of years, an experience he called “profound.”
“It definitely helped me to recognize that, you know, this plant was a culturally important part of our civilization for ... I didn’t know how long,” he said.
As a plant breeder, he shares his views on genetics and the role THC plays in the plant. He suggests that breeding THC out of hemp altogether will have unintended consequences.
“When you remove THC, you’re removing one of the primary defense mechanisms,” he said.
THC also happens to be the compound responsible for psychoactive properties of cannabis which, he said, humans have been using as a spiritual tool since prehistoric times.
He cited the Dogon tribe in Mali, which would ingest fermented cannabis during their religious ceremonies.
This interview covers a lot of territory.
Davis Farms
News Nuggets
Hemp uses and potential economic impact in Pa.
https://www.witf.org/2023/11/13/hemp-uses-and-potential-economic-impact-in-pa/
Is hemp making a comeback? Tennessee farmers eye an era beyond CBD
Pennsylvania Hemp Industry Council
Pennsylvania Hemp Industry Council's introductory video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fFW4d3Bykg
Thanks to our Sponsors:
IND HEMP
National Hemp Association
https://nationalhempassociation.org/
Cornell University's Master’s of Professional Studies in Integrative Plant Sciences with a concentration in hemp sciences.
Pennsylvania Opens The Door for Commercial Hemp Production, Industrial Hemp Podcast, episode nineteen
Lancaster Farming Industrial Hemp Podcast
01/24/19 • 33 min
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 farmers in the state.
Plus, we hear from Jordan Sinclair of Canopy Growth Corporation, the Canadian cannabis company that recently announced plans to build a hemp industrial park in New York State.
Does Overpriced CBD Help Farmers?
Lancaster Farming Industrial Hemp Podcast
02/05/20 • 55 min
Episode 71: This week we talk to Jay Stucky, a CBD hemp farmer in upstate New York. His many concerns about the CBD industry include the high price of CBD and how processors and retailers are making all the money — not the farmers. In this wide ranging conversation, Stucky addresses the call to raise the THC level in hemp from 0.3% to 1%, which he says is not necessary.
Then we hear from Scott Bennett, the hemp policy expert at the American Farm Bureau Federation, whose delegates just voted to support raising the THC level in hemp to 1%.
Relevant hemp Links and news nuggets
Berkshire Hemp https://berkshirehemp.farm/
American Farm Bureau Federation https://www.fb.org/
Leaf Report’s The CBD Market Consumer Research: A Guide to Become a Smart Consumer https://www.leafreport.com/education/the-cbd-market-explained-a-guide-to-become-a-smart-consumer-3159
Kentucky hemp companies face bankruptcy as ‘bureaucratic paralysis’ plagues industry https://www.kentucky.com/news/business/article239751703.html
You might be overpaying for CBD, and there’s no reason why https://www.nj.com/marijuana/2020/02/you-might-be-overpaying-for-cbd-and-theres-no-reason-why.html
Delaware company seeks permits for hemp extraction facility https://www.lancasterfarming.com/news/associated_press/company-seeks-permits-for-hemp-extraction-facility/article_4a5eb148-cfde-5031-bebc-f33acc63d7fc.html
WVDA Submits State Hemp Plan to USDA https://www.lancasterfarming.com/farming/industrial_hemp/wvda-submits-state-hemp-plan-to-usda/article_f0c89ac2-963b-5513-b8a0-d78cdad8b1b2.html
A Certified Organic Labeling Program Is Coming To Cannabis In 2020 https://www.forbes.com/sites/katieshapiro/2020/02/03/a-certified-organic-labeling-program-is-coming-to-cannabis-in-2020/#71141e8c7b07
2 Kentucky hemp companies face bankruptcy proceedings https://www.lancasterfarming.com/news/associated_press/kentucky-hemp-companies-face-bankruptcy-proceedings/article_65c47ff5-4090-572e-8075-04dd1466b52e.html
Sponsor Links
Lancaster DHIA’s Hemp Survivors Workshop https://2020-hemp-survivors-workshop.cheddarup.com
King's Agriseeds https://kingsagriseeds.com/hemp/
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How many episodes does Lancaster Farming Industrial Hemp Podcast have?
Lancaster Farming Industrial Hemp Podcast currently has 317 episodes available.
What topics does Lancaster Farming Industrial Hemp Podcast cover?
The podcast is about Hemp, News, Cannabis, Podcasts and Farming.
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The episode title 'Growing Hemp in Illinois' is the most popular.
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The average episode length on Lancaster Farming Industrial Hemp Podcast is 46 minutes.
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Episodes of Lancaster Farming Industrial Hemp Podcast are typically released every 6 days, 23 hours.
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The first episode of Lancaster Farming Industrial Hemp Podcast was released on Jul 1, 2018.
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