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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 measuring it: hemp DNA, hemp seed, hemp stems and THC. Dongyan Zhao of Breeding Insight, a USDA-ARS program hosted at Cornell, explains a new public genotyping panel that checks about 3,000 genetic markers for roughly $15 a sample. It can confirm a plant's genetic sex before a breeder makes a cross, and it shows that two seed lots with the same variety name aren't always the same seed. Roque Evangelista, a research chemist with the USDA-ARS Bio-Oils Research Unit in Peoria, Illinois, shares seed weight, oil, protein and fatty acid data from hundreds of accessions in the collection, now public in GRIN-Global, and shows how density grading can sort one harvest into seed, hemp hearts, oil and feed. Wayne Swink of the USDA-ARS Cotton Quality and Innovation Research Unit in New Orleans talks about a small decorticator built to measure how much force and energy it takes to break hemp stems, and why fiber is still one of the hardest things about hemp to measure. Finally, Korey Brownstein, a research chemist at the same Peoria research center, describes his open-source method for rapidly measuring 20 cannabinoids, and the problem it's meant to solve. "Lab to lab variation is a very real situation that we are dealing with, right?" he said. Next time, in Episode 3, we'll turn to disease: a fungus that moves between wheat and hemp, a growth chamber full of sick plants, and a disease-resistance gene from a plant most farmers would have mowed down. Learn More Breeding Insight, Cornell University breedinginsight.org Roque Evangelista, USDA-ARS Bio-Oils Research Unit ars.usda.gov Wayne Swink, Fiber Quality Analysis Webinar, Cornell Hemp hemp.cals.cornell.edu Korey Brownstein, USDA-ARS Functional Foods Research Unit ars.usda.gov NIST Cannabis Quality Assurance Program nist.gov National Plant Germplasm System ars-grin.gov USDA ARS Hemp Webinar Series ars.usda.gov Cornell Hemp hemp.cals.cornell.edu Thanks to Our Sponsors Jungmaven jungmaven.com Condor Seed condorseed.com IND Hemp indhemp.com Forever Green, KP4 Hemp Cutter hempcutter.com The Lancaster Farming Industrial Hemp Podcast, also known as The Hemp Show, continues its four-part miniseries on the 2026 USDA Hemp Stakeholder Event, held September 10, 2026, at Cornell AgriTech in Geneva, New York. Hosted by the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Plant Genetic Resources Unit, the meeting centered on the national hemp germplasm collection, a public seed bank of Cannabis sativa that is part of the National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS). Episode 2, "Measure It," covers the tools hemp breeders, growers and processors need to put that genetic diversity to work: hemp genotyping, hemp seed composition analysis, hemp fiber testing and THC testing. Using recordings of the day's presentations, the episode features researchers from Breeding Insight at Cornell University and from USDA ARS laboratories in Peoria, Illinois, and New Orleans.  Dongyan Zhao of Breeding Insight, a USDA ARS initiative hosted at Cornell, presents a public mid-density hemp genotyping panel developed with the Plant Genetic Resources Unit in Geneva. The DArTag panel, run through Diversity Arrays Technology in Australia, targets about 3,000 marker loci, returns results in about four weeks and costs about $15 a sample plus DNA extraction. Development costs were covered up front, so breeders pay only for genotyping. Hemp geneticist George Stack selected the markers with input from stakeholders. Replicated samples agree more than 99% of the time, but different seed lots of the same accession matched only about 83%, showing the genetic diversity within hemp accessions and the risk of mislabeled parental lines. The panel also confirms karyotypic sex, identifying XX mother plants for crosses, and supports population structure and pedigree analysis, marker-assisted selection, QTL mapping and genomic prediction. Roque Evangelista, a research chemist with the USDA ARS Bio-Oils Research Unit at the National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research in Peoria, analyzed more than 300 and then another 380 hemp seed samples from the collection for seed weight, oil content, protein content and fatty acid profile. That hemp seed data is now public in GRIN-Global. Asian accessions produced the largest seeds and somewhat higher oil, but large-seeded plants appear across gene pools, and Evangelista keeps extreme outliers in the data because breeders may be looking for them. Because hemp is indeterminate, harvested grain varies in maturity. Density grading separated heavy, mature seed, about 74% of one lot, from light seed with much lower oil but similar protein, which could go to seed companies, hemp hearts, oil pressing or feed. He also covers cold-pressed hemp seed oil, residual oil in press cake and near-infrared (NIR) calibrations for oil, protein and fatty acids. Wayne Swink of the USDA ARS Cotton Quality and Innovation Research Unit in New Orleans is linking hemp fiber traits to the DNA sequencing of the collection. His team built a bench-scale hemp decorticator, with a pneumatic actuator, a load sensor and a four-roller conditioner, that measures stem breaking force, energy demand and biomass balance between bast fiber and hurd. First data covered 15 stems, and true fiber quality testing is still ahead. Korey Brownstein, a research chemist at the Peoria center, presents a rapid, open-source method for 20 cannabinoids, including THCA, Delta-8 THC, CBGA and CBG, that avoids heat, uses ethanol extraction and sonication and handles about 100 samples a day. He took part in a NIST interlaboratory study and explains why total THC testing near the 0.3% legal limit, and the 2 ppm THC limit for hemp seed meal in laying hen feed, depends on which lab runs the sample. Episode 3 of the USDA hemp series turns to hemp disease.

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 curator Zach Stansell tells how the collection grew from a single feral accession in 2021 to more than 800 accessions from around the world today. Shelby Ellison, a plant breeder at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, chairs the Hemp Crop Germplasm Committee, a newly formed advisory panel that tells the gene bank what to collect, study and protect, and she explains why hemp needed one. Then Phil Bentz, a plant genomics researcher at the University of Georgia, talks about sequencing more than a thousand plants from the collection and his conclusion that hemp and marijuana don't come from separate family trees. Finally, George Stack, a hemp geneticist who trained at Cornell and now runs a genetics consulting company, shows where the sharp line between hemp and marijuana actually sits: a single region of chromosome 7 that decides whether a plant makes CBD or THC. Next time, in Episode 2, we'll turn to measurement: a public DNA testing tool that costs about $15 a sample, a USDA lab that weighs and presses hemp seed, a machine built to break hemp stems, and why 0.3% THC is a harder number to pin down than it sounds. Learn More The USDA-ARS Hemp Germplasm Repository, Cornell Hemp Factsheet hemp.cals.cornell.edu Ellison Lab, University of Wisconsin–Madison alternativecrops.horticulture.wisc.edu Philip Bentz, The Plant Center, University of Georgia plantcenter.uga.edu George Stack, Cornell Dissertation on Hemp Genetics ecommons.cornell.edu USDA ARS Hemp Webinar Series ars.usda.gov National Plant Germplasm System ars-grin.gov Cornell Hemp hemp.cals.cornell.edu Thanks to our Sponsors Jungmaven jungmaven.com IND Hemp indhemp.com Forever Green, KP4 Hemp Cutter hempcutter.com

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 and brands, all focused on how to get hemp from the field into something somebody will buy. What it already is turns out to be a crop with farmers on one end, brands on the other, and a lot of empty space in between. Over two days, nearly every panel ran into that empty space from a different direction. So on this episode, we follow the missing middle and see what we know about how much we don't know, and maybe some things we do know. The following people appear on this episode: Paul Benhaim, The Hemp Plastic Company Patrick Atagi, National Industrial Hemp Council Ryan Zaczynski, 1937 International Zafar Riaz, Pakistan hemp project Nayyar Kazmi, Pakistan hemp project Ally Friedman, Bezos Earth Fund Joe Hickey, Kentucky Hemp Growers Co-op Association Clyde Carpenter, New York Fashion Innovation Center Tyler Mark, University of Kentucky Larry Smart, Cornell University Eric Singular, INCCert and North American Linen Association Buxton Midyette, Supima Trey Riddle, IND HEMP Lawrence Serbin, Hemp Traders and Pure Fiber Innovations Steve Groff, Cedar Meadow Farm Guillaume Delannoy, FRD-CODEM Alex Teodorescu, Cretes Andrew Bish, Bish Enterprises and Hemp Feed Coalition Jeremy Klettke, Davis Farms of Oregon Ted Haney, Federation of International Hemp Organizations Maciej Kowalski, Kombinat Konopny Tim Almond, Heartland Cameron McIntosh, Americhanvre Cast Hemp Greg Wilson, Hempwood Winona LaDuke, Indigenous Hemp Cooperative Ira Vandever, Turquoise Indigo Fibers Joseph Carringer, Canna Markets Group Learn More NIHC Global Industrial Hemp Fiber Summit https://nihcglobalsummit.com/sessions/ 1937 International on The Hemp Show https://www.lancasterfarming.com/farming-news/hemp/1937-international-hemp-textiles-and-global-supply-chains/article_b3e3350a-3963-4ff4-b654-bc386f490a70.html Bezos Earth Fund www.bezosearthfund.org New York Fashion Innovation Center nyfic.org North American Linen Association: Status of Flax Fiber in North America  www.textileworld.com/textile-world/fiber-world/2026/03/nalas-status-of-flax-fiber-in-north-america-report-finds-growing-interest-but-limited-production-processing-infrastructure/ Supima www.supima.com The Hemp Plastic Company www.hempplastic.com Heartland heartland.io Kombinat USA kombinatusa.com Sponsors Jungmaven jungmaven.com IND HEMP indhemp.com Americhanvre Cast Hemp americhanvre.com King's Agriseeds kingsagriseeds.com Forever Green, distributors of the KP4 Hemp Cutter hempcutter.com The Lancaster Farming Industrial Hemp Podcast goes inside the 2026 NIHC Global Industrial Hemp Fiber Summit, held September 16 and 17 at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York City during Fashion Week. Host Eric Hurlock follows the summit's Seed to Style theme from start to finish, using sound bites from farmers, plant breeders, processors, machine builders, fiber scientists, textile brands and policy leaders. They all describe the same challenge: the "missing middle" of the industrial hemp supply chain. That's the processing, decortication, fiber standards, certified seed and buyer commitments needed to turn hemp stalks into yarn, fabric and finished products. National Industrial Hemp Council (NIHC) president Patrick Atagi opens the summit, and Paul Benhaim of The Hemp Plastic Company tells the room that "nobody on earth has a hemp budget." Day one covers hemp textiles from global sourcing to fiber science. Ryan Zaczynski of 1937 International describes a large hemp fiber project in Pakistan, led by Dr. Zafar Riaz and Dr. Nayyar Kazmi, with heat-tolerant genetics, water retting and a first commercial crop of about 4,000 acres expected in 2027. Ally Friedman of the Bezos Earth Fund explains why climate philanthropy is funding a hemp life-cycle assessment against cotton and polyester. Joe Hickey of the Kentucky Hemp Growers Co-op Association, Clyde Carpenter of the New York Fashion Innovation Center, University of Kentucky hemp economist Dr. Tyler Mark and Cornell University plant breeder Larry Smart cover fiber consistency, spinning mill requirements, crop rotation economics and domestic hemp seed. The day closes with hemp's sister fibers. Eric Singular of INCCert and the North American Linen Association makes the case for shared bast fiber processing for flax and hemp, and Buxton Midyette of Supima explains how USDA cotton classing, forensic fiber testing and supply chain traceability give mills confidence. Day two opens with Paul Benhaim's keynote on hemp fiber's value bottleneck, the brands missing from the room, and his call to "finance the middle." A USDA panel covers the ARS hemp germplasm repository in Geneva, New York, and AMS performance-based sampling for fiber hemp growers. The equipment panel, moderated by Trey Riddle of IND HEMP, features Lawrence Serbin's Fiber King green-hemp field decorticator, Guillaume Delannoy of FRD-CODEM on hemp fiber in automotive composites, Alex Teodorescu of Cretes on decortication technology, and Andrew Bish of the Hemp Feed Coalition on market pull. Jeremy Klettke of Davis Farms of Oregon explains counter-season hemp seed multiplication in Argentina. Ted Haney of the Federation of International Hemp Organizations explains why certified seed helped Canada build a commercial hemp industry. The episode also contrasts two textile supply chain models. Maciej Kowalski of Kombinat Konopny runs a vertically integrated hemp apparel chain in Poland, while Tim Almond of Heartland sells spin-ready hemp fiber to yarn mills, made to a published specification. On the materials panel, Cameron McIntosh of Americhanvre Cast Hemp talks about spray-applied hempcrete, and Greg Wilson of Hempwood talks about hemp flooring manufacturing costs. Winona LaDuke of the Indigenous Hemp Cooperative traces a Patagonia hemp bag through five states and two countries. Ira Vandever of Turquoise Indigo Fibers describes Indigenous standards for hemp and Navajo-Churro wool goods. Joseph Carringer of Canna Markets Group closes with a call to "let hemp be hemp" in fashion and textiles. It's essential listening for anyone following hemp fiber, hemp textiles, natural fibers, regional supply chains and the future of the U.S. industrial hemp industry.

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 presentations, panel discussions and networking opportunities, the "Seed to Style" summit attracted people from all parts of the hemp supply chain, as well as people from the worlds of fashion, design and global textiles. This episode offers a snapshot of what the intersection of hemp and fashion looks like in 2026. We talk to Shannon Mayer, dean of the Jay and Patty Baker School of Business and Technology at FIT; Patrick Atagi, president and CEO of the National Industrial Hemp Council; and Curie Chang, founder and CEO of Ofibera, a luxury hemp apparel company. Learn more National Industrial Hemp Council of America https://nihcoa.com/ NIHC Global Summit https://nihcglobalsummit.com/ FIT's Jay and Patty Baker School of Business and Technology https://www.fitnyc.edu/academics/academic-divisions/business-and-technology/index.php Ofibera https://www.ofibera.com/ Bonus: NIHC Industrial Hemp Annual Market Guide https://nihcoa.com/new-nihc-industrial-hemp-market-guide-now-available-online/ The NIHC's first annual guide to U.S. hemp production and markets, which debuted in print on hemp paper at the Seed to Style summit at FIT, is now available online. ONE PLANT in Lancaster https://www.oneplant.film/lancaster Tickets: ONE PLANT double screening, Oct. 24, Zoetropolis Cinema Stillhouse https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lancaster-farming-sunflower-present-one-plant-tickets-1998324956739 Thanks to Our Sponsors! Jungmaven jungmaven.com IND HEMP indhemp.com Americhanvre Cast-Hemp americhanvre.com King's AgriSeeds kingsagriseeds.com Forever Green, distributors of the KP4 Hemp Cutter hempcutter.com

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 Farming podcast, Eric Hurlock. That's me. It's sort of weird to talk about myself in the third person, but anyway, on this week's show we catch up with Mosher to hear about the past five years. Back in 2021, Mosher spoke about new hybrid varieties of hemp grain that could double yields. And now five years later, that hybrid is in the middle of a market that wasn't on her radar back in 2021: renewable fuels. The oil from hemp grain makes an excellent biofuel, she said. We also talk about her work with the Hemp Feed Coalition, a group dedicated to opening the livestock feed markets for hemp. Our conversation was recorded in August before the McConnell deadline was extended to December. She welcomes closing the loopholes in the regulations. "Bad actors still, to this day, impact my company. So I want them out of there. And it's their own fault if there's a huge backlash. It's their fault for not taking care of that in their industry," she said. It's a fun conversation, so listen up and climb on board the RV Time Machine. Learn More New West Genetics newwestgenetics.com/ Hemp Feed Coalition hempfeedcoalition.org/ ONE PLANT Lancaster Screening, Oct 24  oneplant.film/lancaster Get Tickets — ONE PLANT in Lancaster  eventbrite.com Sponsors Jungmaven — hemp clothing, made in the USA jungmaven.com IND Hemp — Fort Benton, Montana indhemp.com Forever Green, distributors of the KP4 Hemp Cutter hempcutter.com

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 of the stops we made in the summer of 2021 was South Bend Industrial Hemp near Great Bend, Kansas, where Melissa Nelson, her husband Aaron Baldwin, and brother-in-law Rich Baldwin had recently installed a decortication machine that processed raw hemp bales into usable streams of fiber and hurd. Melissa's vision for growth has always been about building a resilient regional supply chain. South Bend Industrial Hemp developed a growers group with the intention of educating local farmers to grow the crop. Five years later, the team at South Bend works with a group of 27 growers across Kansas, producing around 7,000 acres of hemp this season. "Our farmers are everything," Nelson said. "At the end of the day, we couldn't do this without them. And the responsibility that we feel because of the trust that they put in us is immeasurable. I carry that weight very heavily on my shoulders and it's very important to me that they have success." Listen to the whole show to hear how South Bend has grown over the past five years — the challenges, the successes, the learning curves and much more. Learn More South Bend Industrial Hemp southbendindustrialhemp.com Lancaster Farming lancasterfarming.com Thanks to Our Sponsors Jungmaven jungmaven.com IND Hemp indhemp.com Forever Green / KP4 Hemp Cutter hempcutter.com Kings Agriseeds kingsagriseeds.com

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 walks us through what's been happening in D.C. lately, who the various lobbying groups are and what they ultimately want from federal policy. "There are so many divisions among these lawmakers, and it's clear that the hemp issue has split members of the same party, " Umansky-Castro said. Last week, Congress used a continuing resolution to push the so-called Mitch McConnell deadline from November to December 11, and Umansky-Castro explains what that extra month does and doesn't buy the industry. In part two of the show, we check in with Tennessee filmmaker Jordan Berger, whose documentary, "One Plant," is finally finished after several years of production. "The plant itself, you know, it touches on everything. And this thing started as a series because there's just so much, but we ultimately made it one film," Berger said. One Plant premieres at the Nashville Film Festival on September 26, 2026. From there, the film travels around the country to other festivals, with stops in Bozeman, MT; Santa Cruz, CA; and Minneapolis, MN. On October 24, the Lancaster Farming Industrial Hemp Podcast will host a double screening of One Plant in Lancaster, PA, at the Zoetropolis Theatre with a Q&A and time to meet others from the film and the Pennsylvania hemp community. Doors open at 11:30 a.m., tickets are available on Eventbrite at the link below. Learn More Get Tickets — ONE PLANT in Lancaster  eventbrite.com ONE PLANT Lancaster Screening, Oct 24  oneplant.film/lancaster Bloomberg Government news.bgov.com/ Rachel Umansky-Castro — Bloomberg Government news.bgov.com/author/rachel-umansky-castro-25432161 Hemp Ban Delay Passed by Congress After Blowback From Hardliners news.bgov.com/bloomberg-government-news/hemp-ban-delay-passed-by-congress-after-blowback-from-hardliners Nashville Film Festival — World Premiere, Sept 26 nashvillefilmfestival.org/2026-festival Bozeman Film Festival — Oct 10 bozemanfilmfestival.org Santa Cruz Film Festival — Oct 17 santacruzfilmfestivals.org   NIHC Global Summit — "Seed to Style," FIT, NYC nihcglobalsummit.com Choose Your Change — Farm to Fabric Hemp Textile Symposium  chooseyourchange.org Sponsors Jungmaven — hemp clothing, made in the USA jungmaven.com IND Hemp — Fort Benton, Montana indhemp.com

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 continuation of the conversations NIHC facilitated in Raleigh, N.C., last summer when they held their fiber summit at N.C. State's Wilson College of Textiles. But this year, the stakes are a little higher and the energy burns a little brighter. Because that's what New York City does: It amplifies everything. "It's building materials, it's clothing — the different parts and pieces of hemp all together, making it all work together. And the culmination is a fashion exhibit," Atagi said. The fashion exhibit caps the summit on Thursday evening — hemp coming off the field and onto the mannequin, the "seed to style" idea made real. Also, one big nugget of hemp news this week: Congress has hit the snooze button on the McConnell deadline that threatens to shut down the vast majority of the cannabinoid hemp industry. Intoxicating hemp products are still out, but the industry has an extra month to fight for its future. The clock is still ticking, but now the alarm is set for Dec. 11, 2026. Learn more NIHC Global Hemp Summit nihcglobalsummit.com Summit Sessions nihcglobalsummit.com/sessions/ The Goodness of Hemp Act thegoodnessofhemp.org Cornell Hemp hemp.cals.cornell.edu Thanks to Sponsors Jungmaven jungmaven.com IND HEMP indhemp.com Kings AgriSeeds kingsagriseeds.com Forever Green hempcutter.com

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 a counting of the blessings — a list of what Wilson and his team have accomplished over the past half decade. We discuss new factories, new products and award-winning installations in the Bowling Green public schools that are changing the quality of education through natural building materials for generations of Kentucky schoolchildren. Learn more HempWood hempwood.com Bowling Green Daily News bgdailynews.com/2026/08/11/students-returning-to-school-amid-numerous-projects/ Cornell Hemp hemp.cals.cornell.edu Ursa Alta from Condor Seed condorseed.com/seeds/industrial-hemp/hemp-ursa-alta/ Murray State University – Center for Agricultural Hemp murraystate.edu/academics/CollegesDepartments/HutsonSchoolOfAgriculture/CenterForAgriculturalHemp/index.aspx Land Between the Lakes landbetweenthelakes.us Floor Covering News fcnews.net/2026/07/flooring-sustainability-summit-honors-2026-award-winners/ Thanks to our Sponsors! Jungmaven jungmaven.com IND HEMP indhemp.com Americhanvre americhanvre.com Forever Green hempcutter.com

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 hemp farms, processors and manufacturers across the country. The industry was sparse then and these hemp companies were few and far between in 2021. And keep in mind that in 2021, most of the noise around industrial hemp was actually about CBD flower and canabinoid production. What made our trip different was that we were talking to the people on the fiber and grain side of the industry, where the game-changing potential of this plant is strongest. Think houses, textiles, food and fuel. Think row crops, think big acreage, think about a third crop in with our beloved corn and soy. Think Hemp, big, boring and ubiquitous. But it has to start somewhere. People have to start doing things to make it happen. So in 2021, I set out to meet the people where they were. I went to see the farms, see the fields and see the factories. I wanted to meet the people, hear their dreams and see their visions come to life. And now five years later, with gas prices approaching 5 dollars a gallon, we go back on the road again, but this time we go virtually. Over the next few months, I will be sharing new conversations from the people I met on the road back then. We'll hear what's changed, what's stayed the same and what the industry looks like now. But before we start publishing those episodes, we're going to go back in time and revisit the tour itself. This episode is your atlas for our time travel. Buckle up, buttercup, and we'll see you in 2021. Thanks to our Sponsors IND HEMP indhemp.com Condor Seeds condorseed.com Forever Green hempcutter.com

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

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

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/

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/

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