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On this week\\u2019s hemp podcast, Lancaster Farming continues checking in with hemp producers around the country.

Ray DePriest, from SunRay Hemp, tells us about growing hemp at 62 degrees north latitude in Palmer, Alaska \\u2014 60 miles north of Anchorage \\u2014 where his family\\u2019s been farming since the 1930s, first as potato farmers, then dairy. Now they focus primarily on hay. This is Ray\\u2019s third year of growing hemp in Alaska.

We hear from Theo Wahquahboshkuk, operations manager at Prairie Band Ag, a hemp company owned and operated by the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation in northeast Kansas, where the business is growing fiber, grain and flower.

Closer to home, we talk with Caleb Kauffman of Lancashire Hemp Farms in Narvon, Pennsylvania. Kauffman prefers to plant his CBD crop later in July. Because Lancashire Farms focuses on \\u201ctop-shelf smokable flower,\\u201d planting later in the season keeps the plants smaller and more manageable.

Katharine Dubansky, co-owner of Back Bone Hemp, checks in from the mountains of Garrett County, Maryland, where she has planted triploid varieties of cannabinoid flower and a small test plot of a fiber variety.

And finally, we hear from Ben Brimlow, lead agronomist at IND HEMP in Montana, where they contract with farmers across the Northwest to grow grain and fiber varieties of hemp.

Links
Backbone Hemp

https://backbonehemp.com/

Prairie Band Ag

https://prairiebandllc.com/

SunRay Hemp

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ray-depriest-0b7947108/

Lancashire Hemp Farms

https://www.lancashirehemp.com/

IND HEMP

https://indhemp.com/

Something to Think About:

What a Dying Lake Says About the Future, by Paul Krugman

"If you aren\\u2019t terrified by the threat posed by rising levels of greenhouse gases, you aren\\u2019t paying attention \\u2014 which, sadly, many people aren\\u2019t. And those who are or should be aware of that threat but stand in the way of action for the sake of short-term profits or political expediency are, in a real sense, betraying humanity."

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/13/opinion/great-salt-lake.html

Thanks to our sponsors:
West Town Bank
https://www.westtownbank.com/hemp

Mpactful Ventures
https://www.mpactfulventures.org/

IND HEMP
https://indhemp.com/