Spring planting, part 2

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 growing hemp in Alaska. We hear from Theo Wahquahboshkuk, operations manager at Prairie Band Ag, a hemp company owned and operated by the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation in northeast Kansas, where the business is growing fiber, grain and flower. Closer to home, we talk with Caleb Kauffman of Lancashire Hemp Farms in Narvon, Pennsylvania. Kauffman prefers to plant his CBD crop later in July. Because Lancashire Farms focuses on "top-shelf smokable flower," planting later in the season keeps the plants smaller and more manageable. Katharine Dubansky, co-owner of Back Bone Hemp, checks in from the mountains of Garrett County, Maryland, where she has planted triploid varieties of cannabinoid flower and a small test plot of a fiber variety. And finally, we hear from Ben Brimlow, lead agronomist at IND HEMP in Montana, where they contract with farmers across the Northwest to grow grain and fiber varieties of hemp. Links Backbone Hemp https://backbonehemp.com/ Prairie Band Ag https://prairiebandllc.com/ SunRay Hemp https://www.linkedin.com/in/ray-depriest-0b7947108/ Lancashire Hemp Farms https://www.lancashirehemp.com/ IND HEMP https://indhemp.com/ Something to Think About: What a Dying Lake Says About the Future, by Paul Krugman "If you aren't terrified by the threat posed by rising levels of greenhouse gases, you aren't paying attention — which, sadly, many people aren't. And those who are or should be aware of that threat but stand in the way of action for the sake of short-term profits or political expediency are, in a real sense, betraying humanity." https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/13/opinion/great-salt-lake.html Thanks to our sponsors: West Town Bank https://www.westtownbank.com/hemp Mpactful Ventures https://www.mpactfulventures.org/ IND HEMP https://indhemp.com/