Industrial Hemp Podcast

Lancaster Farming newspaper editors talk to farmers and experts about industrial hemp.

Industrial Hemp Podcast is a news podcast hosted by Eric Hurlock, Digital Editor, with 399 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #36

  The Fiber King In-Field Decorticator

  Aug 20, 202631 minS9

  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 Groff has been developing with Larry Serbin of Hemp Traders. Instead of hauling bulky raw stalks off the field, the machine decorticates the hemp right where it grows: the fiber is laid on the ground to dry for a couple of days and then round-baled while the wet hurd drops into a standard forage wagon. Groff calls it a systems approach. They're ready to build the first commercial unit and are testing at universities, but they're waiting on investor funding to get there. The economics are the whole point. Hemp is expensive to move as raw biomass — you just can't get enough weight on a truck — so decorticating in the field adds value for the farmer and lowers transportation costs as the crop gets denser. "You want to give the farmer as much profit as possible," Groff said. We also talked about his four-inch precision no-till hemp planter, developed through a Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture innovation grant. By singulating seed and placing it on even four-inch spacing, the planter aims for the uniform, pencil- to Sharpie-sized stalks that textile buyers want, Groff said. Learn More Steve Groff stevegroff.com Hemp Traders hemptraders.com Hemp Events and Happenings One Plant Documentary World Premiere — Nashville Film Festival Nashville, TN Sept. 26 nashfilmfest2026.eventive.org/schedule/one-plant-6a729213e47b192d0a91b154 Hemp Lava Love Workshop Tucson, AZ Oct. 13–15 hemplavalove.my.canva.site/garden-wedding-website-ph-in-white-red-black-romantic-scrapbook-style-style One Plant Documentary Screening Lancaster, PA Oct. 24 eventbrite.com/e/lancaster-farming-sunflower-present-one-plant-tickets-1998324956739 Thanks to Our Sponsors! Americhanvre americhanvre.com IND Hemp indhemp.com Forever Green hempcutter.com

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  Episode #35

  Hemp Week in the Hempire State

  Aug 14, 202627 minS9

  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 day will feature a John Deere combine demonstration that will include harvesting grain, drying the grain and putting the fiber harvest on display — baling it, decorticating it and splitting it into bast and hurds. Register here: https://cals.cornell.edu/events/2026-cornell-grain-fiber-hemp-field-day Then, September 16–18, the National Industrial Hemp Council will hold its Global Industrial Hemp Fiber Summit at the Fashion Institute of Technology. The theme is "Seed to Style." Two days of programming will open with a keynote from NIHC president Patrick Atagi before moving through sessions on reaching the sustainable consumer with the Bezos Earth Fund, hemp biocomposites and bioplastics with Cameron McIntosh of Americhanvre and Greg Wilson of HempWood, USDA research and natural-fiber partnerships across flax, cotton and hemp. Register here: https://nihcglobalsummit.com/ Day two of the event runs from field to fiber through equipment and processing, Latin American fiber opportunities and an international industry panel. The event will closes with "Back to the Future: Bringing Hemp Back to the Textile Mainstream," featuring Maciej Kowalski of Kombinat Konopny and "Concept to Catwalk," a look at hemp luxury moderated by Farm to Fabric's own Jen Adams. The event will be capped by an evening reception and fashion showcase. And that all leads up to Farm to Fabric, a hemp textile symposium running September 18-20 at the Brooklyn Peace Center and on Governor's Island as part of New York Textile Month. It's a free event, open to the public, with NIHC as the title sponsor. On September 18-19, the Brooklyn Peace Center feature a pop-up hemp store, a technology and digital creation room, and the Farm to Fabric Experience, where members of the Tuscarora tribe will show the historical process of pulling fiber from the stalk and turning it into yarn. On September 20, the event will continue on Governor's Island for the Julian Magazine release and a fashion presentation. This episode features a conversation with Jen Adams, organizer of the hemp fashion event in Brooklyn, who said her organization, Choose Your Change, "chose industrial hemp as a subject matter to show the breadth of what we do as an organization, but also to try to elevate and get the stories and voices in the hemp industry." Register here: https://www.fluidforms.co/f/cyc All this and more on this week's show, including a news nugget/calendar item about The Hemp Feed Coalition's upcoming webinar on August 20, a free session on Canada's hemp seed meal feed ingredient application. Register for the webinar here: https://hempfeedcoalition.org/webinar-series/ USDA Germplasm Bonus Event After we made the audio for this episode, we received an email from Zach Stansell, the USDA hemp germplasm curator to invite me to the USDA Hemp Stakeholder Engagement Event on September 10 at Cornell AgriTech's Jordan Hall in Geneva — five days ahead of the Field Day. It's free, no registration, in person or online, with a full day of USDA-ARS talks and a stakeholder roundtable on the future of hemp research. If you're headed to Geneva, get there early. Learn more here: https://hemp.cals.cornell.edu/2026/08/05/usda-hemp-stakeholder-engagement-event-september-10/ Thanks to Our Sponsors Americhanvre Cast Hemp americhanvre.com IND Hemp indhemp.com Forever Green — KP4 Hemp Cutter hempcutter.com

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  Episode #34

  News Nuggets and Upcoming Hemp Events

  Jul 30, 202615 minS9

  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 hemp bottlenecks as Parliament weighs reforms to restart industry hemptoday.net/ireland-confronts-hemp-bottlenecks-as-parliament-weighs-reforms-to-restart-industry/ Botswana clears path to commercial hemp production after successful government trials hemptoday.net/botswana-clears-path-to-commercial-hemp-production-after-successful-government-trials/ Proposed EU carbon market update could boost business case for hemp starting in 2030 hemptoday.net/proposed-eu-carbon-market-update-could-boost-business-case-for-hemp-starting-in-2030/ South Korea puts $21 million behind minor cannabinoids for medical hemp products hemptoday.net/south-korea-puts-21-million-behind-minor-cannabinoids-for-medical-hemp-products/ 'Australia has the potential to become world leader' if government will support hemp hemptoday.net/australia-has-the-potential-to-become-world-leader-if-government-will-support-hemp/ Upcoming Hemp Events Discover NC Textile Hemp — Raleigh, NC, August 6–7 discovernctextilehemp.textiles.ncsu.edu/ HempBLOCK USA Training — Alma, CO, August 7–9 us.hempblockinternational.com/installer-training/ Fibre for Our Future: Unlocking Hemp & Flax — Cobden, ON, August 13 instagram.com/p/DbGWIkNgm0e/ Cornell Fiber & Grain Hemp Field Day — Geneva, NY, September 15 cals.cornell.edu/cornell-agritech NIHC Global Industrial Hemp Fiber Summit — New York, NY (FIT), September 16–18 hempindustrial.com/ Farm to Fabric Hemp Textile Symposium — Brooklyn / Governors Island, NY, September 18–20 fluidforms.co/f/cyc Southern Illinois Hemp Symposium — Carbondale, IL, September 18 conferenceservices.siu.edu/conferences/southern-illinois-hemp-symposium.php Thanks to Our Sponsors Condor Seed condorseed.com/ IND Hemp indhemp.com/ The Goodness of Hemp thegoodnessofhemp.org/ Kings AgriSeeds kingsagriseeds.com/

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  From Field to Foot: Making Hemp Socks in Poland

  Jul 24, 202639 minS9

  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. His approach to business is straightforward: Make things people need. "What do they need? They need socks. They need beanies, they need pants, they need blouses, they need shirts, everything," Kowalski said. "The sock became like the symbol of what we're trying to achieve seven, eight years ago when we started." This episode follows Kowalski as he takes us from blending, carding, and spinning, to decortication and breaking up the bales, giving us a backwards journey from sock, to yarn, to fiber, to bale. Learn More Kombinat Konopny https://kombinatkonopny.pl Kombinat USA https://kombinatusa.com European Industrial Hemp Association (EIHA) https://eiha.org Natural Materials Unlimited https://naturalmaterials.eu European Hemp Hub https://www.pole-europeen-chanvre.eu/en/ Thanks to Our Sponsors Americhanvre Cast Hemp americhanvre.com IND HEMP indhemp.com Bish Enterprises bishenterprises.com 1937 International 1937international.com Condor Seed condorseed.com HEMI — Hemp Education and Marketing Initiative thegoodnessofhemp.org/

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  Episode #32

  Hempcrete Hero: Little House on the Podcast

  Jul 16, 202633 minS9

  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 things over the years: an art studio, a bakery, a jewelry-making place. By 2018 the Little House had given birth to this very podcast. The Little House has been an epicenter of entrepreneurial spirit and love for a long time. When I got home from my recent trip to Poland , I found out there was a water leak in the Little House, which sent me on a mission of ripping and tearing — rugs, floors, decking and drywall. And before I knew it, I needed a new wall on the west end. And of course, it was going to be a hempcrete wall, right? Hempcrete is hemp hurd — the woody inner core of the hemp stalk — mixed with a lime-based binder and water and packed around a wood frame like insulation. It's breathable, naturally resistant to pests and fire, and because hemp pulls carbon out of the air as it grows, a hempcrete wall can be carbon-negative. It's about as close as you can get to building a wall out of a farm field. After years and years of following the industry, reporting on builders like Cameron McIntosh, Micaela Machado, Danny Desjarlais and Matt Marino, these people are my heroes. And now, after having made seven batches of hempcrete by hand, anyone who has ever built something out of hempcrete is my hero. Luck favors the prepared, so I sought knowledge. I drove down to the Ice House in Ellicott City, Maryland, to learn from Gayle Killen. She taught me how to mix by hand, how to pack the edges better than the middle, and how to stay safe — PPE always, and a jar of vinegar handy to neutralize the lime. Cameron McIntosh, up at his shop in Bally, confirmed the numbers and sent me home with hurd, buckets, tampers and a saw. Drew Oberholzer and Ana Konopitskaya of Coexist Build donated nine bags of lime binder. Acts of kindness bind us all together. So I mixed and packed and mixed again, all through the Fourth of July weekend, sweating it out in the backyard, covered in lime burns, until a hempcrete wall stood where the old one used to be. My kids tell me it smells like corn. But whatever it smells like, it looks like agriculture. Imagine if we could build our houses with locally sourced, annually renewable resources so we can survive, so our children can survive, so our children's children can survive. That's what this is about: the future, and learning how to do things so we can face it together. This hempcrete wall is emblematic of the changes you'll see coming. We're building, growing, making and doing. Learn More LimeWorks.us – EcoLogic HempCrete Binder Platinum https://www.limeworks.us/product/ecologic-hempcrete-binder-platinum/ Americhanvre https://americhanvre.com/ Hemp Building Institute https://www.hempbuildinginstitute.org/ HempBuild Magazine https://www.hempbuildmag.com/ US Hemp Building Association (USHBA) https://www.ushba.org/resources International Hemp Building Association (IHBA) https://internationalhempbuilding.org/ Thanks to Our Sponsors HEMI Take Action: https://thegoodnessofhemp.org Condor Seed https://condorseed.com Forever Green – KP4 Hemp Cutter https://hempcutter.com

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