Sustainability Report: Does Hemp Live Up to the Hype?
Industrial Hemp Podcast
This week on the Lancaster Farming Industrial Hemp Podcast we’re looking at hemp’s environmental promise. We’ve all heard the claim the hemp can save the planet—but what does the science really say? I talk with environmental scientist Lorelei Alvarez and strategist Joseph Carringer, co-authors of the brand-new Hemp and Sustainability Report, published by HempToday and CannaMarkets Group. Together, we dig into the evidence, the hype, and the responsibility that comes with hemp’s potential. The report breaks down hemp’s impact on carbon, soil, water, and lifecycle assessments,...
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The Hemp Waltz, Sides 5 and 6
Industrial Hemp Podcast
This is the final installment of our special Global Hemp Fiber Summit Box Set. Sides 5 and 6 wrap up our coverage from Raleigh 2025, featuring voices from across the fiber hemp industry—from seasoned pioneers to fresh perspectives. Hear updates from long-time advocates, emerging researchers, farmers, processors, and policy influencers shaping the future of American hemp textiles. Side 5: Robert Jungman Jungmaven jungmaven.com Joe Hickey – longtime hemp advocate Gabriela Fioravanti – Thomas Jefferson University – https://www.jefferson.edu/ Eric Singular – INCERT / Responsible Hemp...
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Raleigh '25, Sides 3 and 4
Industrial Hemp Podcast
Thanks for tuning in to the Hemp Show. This week we’re spinning sides 3 and 4 of our special box set recorded at the 2025 Global Industrial Hemp Fiber Summit in Raleigh, North Carolina, July 15 – 17, 2025. Side Three: Glen Kayll – CEO, The Hemp Plastic Company [00:00:51] Joseph Carringer – HempToday / CannaMarkets Group [00:06:42] Eric Henry – TS Designs [00:18:43] Andrew Bish – Bish Enterprises [00:25:08] Coleman Beale – CEO, BastCore [00:28:12] David Camby – BioPhil Natural Fibers [00:30:07] Side Four: Dave Cook – Tuscarora Mills [00:36:49] ...
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Greg Wilson and the Golden Ratio of HempWood
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 guitar jams, this is a true journey through the World of Greg Wilson. Key Topics: • New HempWood factory grand opening • Vertical integration and farmer...
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All Things Must Hemp, Sides 1 and 2
Industrial Hemp Podcast
Dear listeners, 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. They’re working in the field and in the lab, bridging research and manufacturing, and helping steer the industrial hemp conversation back to its core: fiber,...
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The Fiber of Our Being: The NIHC Global Industrial Hemp Fiber Summit Recap
Industrial Hemp Podcast
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 global apparel brands. On this episode we follow the flow of the summit itself, threading together powerful takeaways from the TED-style talks across agriculture,...
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How to Nip Intoxicating Canabinoids in the Bud
Industrial Hemp Podcast
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 ourselves in now. But if hemp is getting you high, it’s not hemp — it’s weed. Stop calling it hemp. And that’s why there needs to be a legislative fix....
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The PA Flax Project & The Return of American Linen
Industrial Hemp Podcast
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 racing toward synthetic fiber — which makes 2025 a special year in Pennsylvania. Thanks to the PA Flax Project, spearheaded by Heidi Barr and Emma de Long,...
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The Etymology of Hemp and Why Words Matter
Industrial Hemp Podcast
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 nascent industry trying to raise capital, build infrastructure and develop markets. To help me sort out the history and meaning of the word hemp, I spoke...
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Bast Fiber Tech and the Rise of Hemp in Nonwoven Hygiene
Industrial Hemp Podcast
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 and a total disconnect from the land. But what if we could change that? What if the raw material for these essential products didn’t come from oil — but from...
info_outlineThis week’s guest on the Industrial Hemp podcast is Lucia Vignale, a third-year PhD student at Cornell University, where she studies plant breeding, genetics and pathology.
“I’m interested in searching for, mapping, and characterizing new sources of resistance against hemp powdery mildew,” she said.
Vignale earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in molecular biologist in her native Uruguay, and in 2022 she came to Larry Smart’s hemp lab at Cornell on a Fullbright scholarship to pursue her PhD.
Her passion for hemp is intertwined with her passion for science.
There's so much that we don't know about hemp, she said, “so I want to answer questions. I want to solve problems.”
She said with other crops like corn, cotton or soy, there is already so much research out there, so much is already known. But hemp, she said, “has been largely unexplored due to legal issues,” and the untapped potential excites her.
“There's so many things that we can do and learn from it, and we are seeing that in person now with all the new products and applications that we can get from it, she said.
One of her jobs in the Cornell hemp lab this year was to plan and execute the fourth annual hemp webinar series, which starts January 29 and runs biweekly until May 7.
This year’s webinar series will focus on hemp grain and will include presentations from hemp grain experts. (see full list below)
The webinar series is free but registration is required.
Go here to register: https://cornell.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0vJzjCiA0SLCOua
2025 Hemp Webinar Series Schedule
January 29: IND Hemp, founding and mission – Morgan Tweet, IND HEMP
February 12: Pathogens affecting hemp cultivation – Nicole Gauthier, University of Kentucky
February 26: Hemp products as food ingredients – Chadwick White, Nepra Foods, Ltd.
March 12: Screening of seed related traits in wide germplasm – Tyler Gordon, USDA-ARS
March 26: Novel high oleic acid seed oil trait – Ian Graham, University of York
April 9: Hemp seed meal as a feed ingredient in animal diets – Nathalie Trottier, Cornell University
April 23: Best agronomic practices – Bob Pearce, University of Kentucky
May 7: Hemp products as food ingredients – Kendra Meier, HPS Food & Ingredients
Learn More about Cornell Hemp: https://hemp.cals.cornell.edu/
News Nuggets:
13th Annual International Hemp Building Association Symposium to Be Held at Lower Sioux Indian Community
https://internationalhempbuilding.org/
https://lowersioux.com/hemp-program-and-housing-project/
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