Episodes
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USDA Hemp Collection, Part 4 of 4: Putting the Seed to Work
This week's Hemp Show is the fourth and final episode of our four-part miniseries covering the 2026 USDA Hemp Stakeholder Event, which took place at Cornell AgriTech on September 10. In Episode 1, we looked at what's in the national hemp germplasm collection. In Episode 2, we looked at the tools...
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USDA Hemp Collection, Part 3 of 4: Finding Disease Resistance in the Seed
This week's Hemp Show is the third episode of our four-part miniseries covering the 2026 USDA Hemp Stakeholder Event, which took place at Cornell AgriTech on September 10. In Episode 1, we looked at what's in the national hemp germplasm collection. In Episode 2, we looked at the tools for…
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USDA Hemp Collection, Part 2 of 4, Measuring What Matters
This week's Hemp Show is the second episode of our four-part miniseries covering the 2026 USDA Hemp Stakeholder Event, which took place at Cornell AgriTech on September 10. In Episode 1, we looked at the diversity inside the national hemp germplasm collection. In this episode, we turn to…
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USDA Hemp Collection, Part 1 of 4, What's in the Seed?
This week's Hemp Show is the first episode of a four-part miniseries covering the 2026 USDA Hemp Stakeholder Event, which took place at Cornell AgriTech on September 10. In this first episode, researchers explain what's inside the national hemp germplasm collection and why it matters. Collection...
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Inside the 2026 NIHC Hemp Fiber Summit at FIT
This week on the Hemp Show, we're continuing our coverage of the National Industrial Hemp Council's Global Industrial Hemp Fiber Summit, held at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City during Fashion Week. It was two days of farmers, breeders, processors, machine builders, designers...
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Is Fashion Avenue Ready for Hemp Textiles?
This week, the Hemp Show takes place in New York City, at the intersection of Industrial Hemp and Fashion Avenue. Last month, the National Industrial Hemp Council held its annual Global Industrial Hemp Fiber Summit at the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan. With two full days of...
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Hemp Grain for Fuel: Wendy Mosher of New West Genetics
New West Genetics has been focused on crop improvement in the hemp industry since 2014. In July of 2021, the Lancaster Farming National Hemp Tour paid a visit to the New West headquarters in Fort Collins, Colorado, where Wendy Mosher sat down for an interview with the host of the Lancaster…
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Melissa Nelson of South Bend Industrial Hemp on Five Years of Growth
This week on the Hemp Show, we're revisiting some of the folks we met during our National Hemp Tour of 2021. Five years ago this summer the Industrial Hemp Podcast hit the road to map the industry as it was then. Hemp farmers, processors and manufacturers were few and far between at the time. One...
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Hemp on the Hill and the Silver Screen
This week's Hemp Podcast is divided into two parts. First, we take a look at the recent changes in U.S. hemp policy in a conversation with Rachel Umansky-Castro, the agriculture reporter for Bloomberg Government, who has spent the summer covering the fight over the federal definition of hemp. She...
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Seed to Style: Inside the NIHC Summit with Patrick Atagi
This week on the Industrial Hemp Podcast, we talk to Patrick Atagi, president and CEO of the National Industrial Hemp Council, the organization that's hosting the Seed to Style hemp fiber summit in conjunction with the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, Sept. 16-18. This event is a...
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Counting the Blessings of HempWood with Greg Wilson
This week on The Hemp Show, we check in with Greg Wilson from Hempwood in Murray, Kentucky where, five years ago, Lancaster Farming's National Hemp Tour made its first stop. A lot has happened with Hempwood since then, and on this episode, Wilson brings us up to speed. In many ways, this show is…
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The National Hemp Tour 5 Years On
This week on the hemp podcast we take a ride in the RV Time Machine. We're going back five years, back to the National Hemp Tour in the summer of 2021, when we took the podcast on the road — and took my family too. We traveled over ten thousand miles from coast to coast in a rented RV visiting…
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The Fiber King In-Field Decorticator
On this week's show, we catch up with Lancaster County farmer, hemp innovator and cover-crop coach Steve Groff to hear about the progress on two machines that have been years in the making and, he thinks, are finally about ready. The headliner is the Fiber King in-field decorticator, a project...
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Hemp Week in the Hempire State
This week on the Hemp Show we're digging into a few of the calendar items we mentioned on last week's show, specifically the run of events in New York state next month. On September 15, Cornell's 10th Annual Grain and Fiber Hemp Field Day comes to the Cornell AgriTech campus in Geneva. The field...
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News Nuggets and Upcoming Hemp Events
On this week's Hemp Show we are focusing on recent news stories and upcoming hemp events, including the Farm-to-Fabric Hemp Textile Symposium in New York City, September 18-20. See the full list of events below. Plus a healthy helping of Hemp News Nuggets from HempToday.net: Ireland confronts…
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From Field to Foot: Making Hemp Socks in Poland
This week's Hemp Show takes us once more back to Poland, where Maciej Kowalski gives us a tour of his vertically integrated hemp textile company in Elbląg, a small town in Northern Poland, not too far from the Baltic Sea. Today we'll let Kowalski guide us as we tour the Kombinat Konopny facility....
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Hempcrete Hero: Little House on the Podcast
We have an outbuilding at home — we call it the Little House. It's a small old barn that sits out in our back yard, maybe 25 feet from the back door. It was a barn for animals at one point, then a garage, then an apartment. There's a lot of interesting energy in the Little House. It's been many...
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Encore Presentation of Michael Klepacz's First Interview on Hemp Show, March 2024
This is a special encore edition of an interview we published on YouTube two years ago. This is my conversation with Michael Klepacz, an Ohio native and Air Force veteran who moved to Poland in 2012 and founded Natural Materials Unlimited, a company that makes textiles and products from hemp…
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Michael Klepacz: An American in Warsaw
This week on the Hemp Show, we continue our hemp adventure in Poland, catching up with American expat Michael Klepacz, owner of Natural Materials Unlimited. Klepacz sits near the end of the hemp supply chain — he doesn't grow or process raw fiber himself. Instead, he sources hemp and other…
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Julia Bialecka — Replacing Styrofoam with Hemp and Mycelium
This is part six of a ten-part podcast series documenting the European Industrial Hemp Association's 23rd Annual Conference in Poznan, Poland, at the Institute of Fiber Plants and Medicinal Medicine, June 10-12. Julia Bialecka is CEO and co-founder of S-Lab, short for Sustainable Laboratory. The...
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Beau Whitney — Making the Economic Case for Hemp, One Spoon at a Time
This is part seven of a ten-part podcast series documenting the European Industrial Hemp Association's 23rd Annual Conference in Poznan, Poland, at the Institute of Fiber Plants and Medicinal Medicine, June 10-12. Beau Whitney is the founder of Whitney Economics, based in Portland, Oregon. He has...
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Caroline Matthews — Tatham's Compact Decortication Line for Small Hemp Farmers
This is part eight of a ten-part podcast series documenting the European Industrial Hemp Association's 23rd Annual Conference in Poznan, Poland, at the Institute of Fiber Plants and Medicinal Medicine, June 10-12. Caroline Matthews represents Tatham, a fiber processing machinery company based in...
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Lorenza Romanese — Hemp as a Building Block of the Bioplastics Economy
This is part nine of a ten-part podcast series documenting the European Industrial Hemp Association's 23rd Annual Conference in Poznan, Poland, at the Institute of Fiber Plants and Medicinal Medicine, June 10-12. View the whole series here. Lorenza Romanese is Secretary General of European...
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Bob Hoban — The "Hemp Cliff" and What Comes Next
This is part ten of a ten-part podcast series documenting the European Industrial Hemp Association's 23rd Annual Conference in Poznan, Poland, at the Institute of Fiber Plants and Medicinal Medicine, June 10-12. Bob Hoban is an attorney and consultant in the international cannabis and hemp space,...
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Ken Elliott & Rusty Peterson — What US Hemp Can Learn From Europe
This is part one of a ten-part podcast series documenting the European Industrial Hemp Association's 23rd Annual Conference in Poznan, Poland, at the Institute of Fiber Plants and Medicinal Medicine, June 10-12. The series starts with a casual conversation with Ken Elliott and Rusty Peterson from...
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Witold Czesiak — Professionalizing Hemp Through Genetics and Licensing
This is part two of a ten-part podcast series documenting the European Industrial Hemp Association's 23rd Annual Conference in Poznan, Poland, at the Institute of Fiber Plants and Medicinal Medicine, June 10-12. Witold Czeszak, co-founder and head of the Polish Hemp Program at the Institute of...
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Estelle Delangle — Building a Whole-Plant Hemp Bioeconomy
This is part three of a ten-part podcast series documenting the European Industrial Hemp Association's 23rd Annual Conference in Poznan, Poland, at the Institute of Fiber Plants and Medicinal Medicine, June 10-12. Estelle Delangle, director of the Hemp European Hub in Troyes, France, frames the...
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Jan Slaski — Hemp Breeding on the Canadian Prairies
This is part four of a ten-part podcast series documenting the European Industrial Hemp Association's 23rd Annual Conference in Poznan, Poland, at the Institute of Fiber Plants and Medicinal Medicine, June 10-12. Jan Slaski, hemp researcher and plant breeder at InnoTech Alberta, has spent nearly…
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Colin Steddy — Soil, Carbon, and Grassroots Farming Down Under
This is part five of a ten-part podcast series documenting the European Industrial Hemp Association's 23rd Annual Conference in Poznan, Poland, at the Institute of Fiber Plants and Medicinal Medicine, June 10-12. Colin Steddy is a grassroots farmer from Western Australia who got into hemp in 2005...
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Meet Ursa Alta, The New Low-THC Fiber Cultivar from Cornell AgriTech
This week on the Hemp Show, Larry Smart returns to talk about Ursa Alta, the new low-THC hemp variety that Cornell AgriTech has released for commercial production. The variety has been seven years in the making. "We had come up with a new cultivar that was distinct, uniform and stable. That's our...
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Can the Goodness of Hemp Act Fix What's Broken in Hemp?
This week Morgan Tweet returns to the Hemp Show to talk about the Goodness of Hemp Act, a draft legislation she's confident will set the broader hemp industry on the path toward sensible regulation. She was on the show last November, about a week after the November surprise that we now know as…
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Meet NHA's New Director Sully Sullivan
This week on the Hemp Show we meet Sully Sullivan. He's the new executive director at the National Hemp Association — and what a time to be taking the helm of a hemp association. So much is up in the air right now. What about the November federal deadline that will ban most hemp-derived THC...
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Farm to Flow: Trace Femcare and the Future of Hemp Fiber Tampons
This week on the Hemp Show, Claire Crunk returns. She is the founder of Trace Femcare, the worlds first hemp fiber tampon. Her first appearance on the podcast was in 2023. Her company was just a few weeks away from their initial product launch. All they were waiting for was final approval from…
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Stacking Up with Renewabuild Great Plains
This week on the show we talk with Ken Meyer of Complete Hemp Processing in Winfred, South Dakota. As of last week, Meyer is also a co-founder of Renewabuild Great Plains — the first U.S.-licensed manufacturer of structural hempcrete blocks. We've been telling the story of these structural blocks...
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Steve Groff and the Great Wall of Hemp
HOLTWOOD, Pa. — This week on the Hemp Podcast we take a short road trip to southern Lancaster County to catch up with farmer Steve Groff. "What we're looking at here, Eric, is a metaphor for the hemp industry. We're looking broken promises and contracts that didn't come to be," Groff said…
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Getting From HempToday to Hemp Tomorrow with Kehrt Reyher
This week on the Hemp Show, we talk to Kehrt Reyher, CEO and publisher of HempToday, a leading source of global hemp news. An American expat from Indiana who has lived in Poland for more than 30 years, Reyher cut his teeth in journalism at U.S. newspapers like the Providence Journal and USA Today...
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Maciej Kowalski: Be Your Own Supply Chain
This week on the Hemp Show we talk to Maciej Kowalski, founder and CEO of Kombinat Konopni, a hemp company in Northern Poland. We hear how he built a vertically integrated company — from planting, harvesting, processing, all the way to manufacturing finished goods — and why he would rather…
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Dakota Hemp: Building an Industry in South Dakota
This week on the Hemp Show, we're talking to the guys from Dakota Hemp in Wakonda, South Dakota. John Peterson and Karll Lecher are running a HempTrain decortication system, taking in bales from local farmers and turning them into fiber and hurd. We get into how the facility works, what they're...
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Pushing Progress in the DC Swamp
On this week's hemp show, we talk to a couple of hemp policy advocates who recently traveled to the swamps of D.C. in hopes of affecting change. This week we're joined by Geoff Whaling, chair of the National Hemp Association, and Andrew Bish, president of the Hemp Feed Coalition. Together they...
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Cannabis Loves Community: Voices from the Industrial Hemp International Conference
On this week's hemp show we're headed out to Colorado for the Industrial Hemp International Conference where hempsters from all across the value chain gathered to share ideas, make deals and be in community with one another. As a hemp podcaster, I had the unique opportunity to work in community...
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Can Argentina Solve Hemp's Seed Problem?
We've been covering industrial hemp on the podcast for eight years now, and the story of farmers getting bad seed is so common it barely feels like news anymore. It's just accepted — low germination rates, inconsistent genetics and fields that never quite come in the way they should. But this is...
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1937 International: Hemp Textiles, Pakistan to Product
This week on the Hemp Show, we talk with Ryan Zaczynski, co-founder of 1937 International, a company working to build global supply chains for industrial hemp. In this episode, Zaczynski talks about what it takes to move hemp beyond niche markets and into real products that people use every day —...
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Hemp in New Zealand: Policy, Markets and the Long Game
Industrial hemp has been developing quietly in New Zealand for more than two decades. In this episode, we're talking with Richard Barge, treasurer of the New Zealand Hemp Industries Association, about how the sector has evolved — from early government trials in the early 2000s to a growing…
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The Mythic Possibilities of Hemp Fiber
Long before we talked about hemp as a commodity crop with profound industrial potential, hemp was something simpler: a plant grown in soil, worked by human hands and shaped into useful things. This week on the Hemp Show our guest is Laura Sullivan — hemp farmer, Extension educator at the…
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Field to Fabric: Building a Hemp Denim Supply Chain in Pennsylvania
On this week's Hemp Podcast, we talk to August Cook, Joseph Carringer and Dave Cook of Commonwealth Denim and Tuscarora Mills about their effort to weave, cut and sew 100% hemp selvedge jeans in Pennsylvania — and what it will take to rebuild a regional textile supply chain from farm to finished...
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Hemp as an Indicator Species: Mapping the Future of Bio-Based Building
This week on the Hemp Show, we widen the lens. Hemp is more than a crop — it's part of a larger material system that connects farms, forests, manufacturers, builders and cities. Architect and urban researcher Kaja Kühl joins the podcast to explain why she calls hemp and straw "indicator species"…
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Inside the Trojan Horse of Intoxicating Hemp
This week on the Hemp Podcast, we have a long conversation about hemp-derived intoxicating cannabinoids with Chris Fontes, president of the U.S. Hemp Authority and founder of Trojan Horse Cannabis and High Spirits Beverages. Trojan Horse Cannabis was the first company to bring so-called...
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Spring Hemp Preview: Webinars, Short Courses, and Conferences
This week on the Industrial Hemp Podcast, host Eric Hurlock is joined by Lancaster Farming staff reporter Dan Sullivan to talk about one Pennsylvania farmer's decision that's captured national attention. Farmer Mervin Raudabaugh Jr. turned down millions of dollars in development money to preserve...
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Hemp in Pennsylvania: Commodity Crop or Shadow Cannabis Market?
We're back. Season 9 of the Hemp Show is here. In this season opener of the Lancaster Farming Industrial Hemp Podcast, we'll take you inside a hearing organized by the Center for Rural Pennsylvania that was meant to explain the hemp industry to state lawmakers — and ended up revealing something...
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Hemp in 2025: Cliff Hangers, Course Corrections and Community
2025 was a year of uncertainty, contradiction and recalibration for the hemp industry. In this year-end episode of the Lancaster Farming Industrial Hemp Podcast, host Eric Hurlock looks back on a season defined by policy whiplash, shifting definitions and hard conversations about what hemp is —…
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Lancaster Farming newspaper editors talk to farmers and experts about industrial hemp.
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