Industrial Hemp Podcast

We’re celebrating big news from western Kentucky — HempWood is opening their new factory on the HempWood Campus in Murray. It’s a big deal and it’s a big day.

On this special HempWood episode, we catch up with Greg Wilson for a freewheeling conversation about flooring, farming, the Fibonacci sequence and the future of sustainable materials. From co-op growing systems and carbon credits to tornadoes, redneck hippies and 12-string gu...

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This week on the Hemp Show, we’re dropping the needle on a very special commemorative box set from the 2025 Global Industrial Hemp Fiber Summit in Raleigh, North Carolina.

In this first installment — Sides 1 and 2 — of a three-episode miniseries, we hear from a wide range of voices building the fiber side of the hemp industry from the ground up: farmers, machine makers, wet processors, entrepreneurs and professors. ...

This week on the Lancaster Farming Industrial Hemp Podcast, we’re listening to a recap of the 2025 Global Industrial Hemp Fiber Summit, hosted by the National Industrial Hemp Council of America at the Wilson College of Textiles at NC State, that took place in Raleigh, NC, July 15-17, 2025.

For three well-planned days, leaders from across the hemp value chain came together—from farmers and geneticists to processors, engineers, and g...

This week on the Hemp Show, we’re continuing the conversation around the need to split the industry into two. There is much confusion in the minds of law makers and consumers when it comes to what hemp is.

For years hemp advocates championed the fact that hemp doesn’t get you high, but thanks to a loophole in the 2018 Farm Bill, somebody figured out how to get high from hemp, and so began the era of intoxicating hemp that we find o...

This week on the Hemp Show we’re talking about flax, a fiber plant with remarkable similarities to industrial hemp when grown for textiles.

There’s a fair amount of flax growing this year in southeastern Pennsylvania.

The last time this much flax grew here, tractors hadn’t even been invented yet.

By the late 1800s flax production was in rapid decline in the Keystone State, pushed out by cheap cotton and forgotten by a country racin...

Lately on the podcast, I’ve been wrestling with a question of language.

What does the word hemp really mean, where did that meaning come from, how has it shifted over time, and who gets to define the word hemp today?

For a thousand years, hemp was known as the plant or material that you made things from — things like rope, cloth and paper.

But now when people hear the word hemp, they think about weed. And that’s not helpful for a n...

This week on the Lancaster Farming Industrial Hemp Podcast, we’re talking about wipes.

And diapers. And makeup pads. And all the other throwaway hygiene products we barely think about — but use every day.

Most of these single-use items are made from plastic.

Why?

Because plastic is cheap, consistent, and engineered to run smoothly on fast-moving machines.

But that convenience comes at a cost: landfill waste, microplastic pollution ...

On this episode of the Lancaster Farming Industrial Hemp Podcast, we take a look at the fight for industrial hemp’s future — from grassroots advocacy to global certification and the ongoing struggles farmers face in the banking system.

Act 1: Virginia Hemp Month – Reclaiming the Word "Hemp"

Joe Domino and Scott McStacy of the Virginia Hemp Coalition join the show to talk about their efforts to officially recognize June as Virginia ...

This week on the show we reconnect with Chad Rosen, founder and CEO of Victory Hemp Foods, who was first on the show back in the summer of ‘21 when I drove the Lancaster Farming National Hemp Tour RV right up to Victory Hemp’s grain bins in Carrollton, Kentucky.

When I was there 4 years ago, Victory was processing batches, roughly 20,000 lbs a month, but they just put in a new processing line that lets them do 120,000 pounds of hem...

The hemp event of the summer is taking place in Raleigh, North Carolina, July 15-17.

It's the Global Industrial Hemp Fiber Summit, hosted by the Wilson College of Textiles, in conjunction with the National Industrial Hemp Council.

This week on the Hemp Show, we’ll talk to the lead organizer of the event, Guy Carpenter.

Unlike other events focused on industrial hemp, this summit centers squarely on hemp fiber and the industries that...

This week’s episode of the Lancaster Farming Industrial Hemp Podcast unfolds in three acts, each exploring a different facet of the growing hemp industry — from a café built on hemp-based food, to a hands-on construction training, to a linguistic deep dive into the meaning of the word hemp.

Act 1: A Hemp Café in Mount Pleasant

The show begins with a conversation with longtime hemp entrepreneur Cindy Amick, whose new endeav...

This week on the Lancaster Farming Industrial Hemp Podcast, host Eric Hurlock wrestles with a question at the heart of the industry: What is hemp?

This week’s episode is a little different—just a quick teaser while we finish up next week’s show, which dives into the meaning of the word “hemp” and who gets to claim it. Host Eric Hurlock has been on a journey talking to people in the cannabinoid space—like Jeremy Klet...

This week on the Hemp Podcast we’re looking at the 2025 Hemp Report from the USDA. The annual report attempts to provide a snapshot of the hemp industry, which, according to the report, is valued at $445 million — up 40% from last year.

They say hemp has 25,000 uses — but today, we’re focusing on just one: nonwovens.

The NoCo Hemp Expo wrapped up its eleventh annual event last week in Estes Park, Colorado.

In this episode, regenerative industrial hemp farmer Steve Groff returns for a candid discussion about the current state of hemp farming, innovation and industry challenges in Pennsylvania.

When President Thomas Jefferson sent Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on the original American road trip in 1804, there weren’t many roads, so they took boats. Up the Missouri River and into the great unknown.

This week on the Hemp Show, we talk with global hemp expert and co-founder of the Hemp Plastic Company, Paul Benhaim.