Industrial hemp, class by class

Equine bedding

A 30 lb compressed bag of sized hemp hurd sold as horse-stall bedding.

Spec. 30 lb bag. Dakota particle band about 1/4–1.5 in. Moisture and dust sit on the mill COA, a lab sheet on each bag of hurd.

Price. Dakota ladder, 2025–26: $20, $19, $18, $17 per pallet, $16 multi-pallet, per 30 lb ($0.53–$0.67/lb).

Who buys it. Barn, tack shop, and the mill that bags it.

Loop. First market. The stall buys the hurd. Spent bedding comes back as compost.

Dakota Hemp bag ladder. NASS hempan26.pdf Apr 2026 is a different product at $0.20/lb retted stalk.

Equine bedding

Forty 30 lb bags on one pallet, the volume break for a working barn.

Spec. 40 × 30 lb = 1,200 lb.

Price. $17 a bag on the Dakota pallet step, $0.567/lb. Multi-pallet is $16.

Who buys it. Barns at or above about 40 bags.

Loop. The pallet is how a 12×12 top-up (about 11 bags a year) starts to clear the single-bag price.

Dakota Hemp bag ladder.

Equine bedding

A super-sack of hurd for barns that do not want to handle 30 lb bags.

Spec. About 400–450 lb a sack. Dakota also lists 400 lb totes.

Price. quote. No Dakota super-sack dollar is published on this site. The $16/30 lb bag is the bag schedule, not a sack price.

Who buys it. Large barns, training farms, mills shipping bulk.

Loop. Same hurd as the bag. The stall still returns the spent bed as compost.

Dakota published tote class. Bag ladder is the 30 lb schedule only.

Equine bedding

The 1/4 inch hurd cut Dakota lists for bedding.

Spec. About 2–12 mm. Low dust if it is the screened bedding grade.

Price. Dakota listed $0.60/lb for the 1/4 in cut. The 30 lb bag ladder is $0.53–$0.67/lb. NASS stalk is $0.20/lb and is not this cut.

Who buys it. Barns, and builders when the cut is re-screened as Grade A.

Loop. One mill, two cuts. Bedding and hempcrete do not share a screen.

dakotahemp.com listed hurd. Dakota bag ladder.

Equine bedding

A farm-store bag that shows the retail mark-up above the mill.

Spec. About 5 cu ft, near a 30 lb class.

Price. Cranky Frank at Tractor Supply, $59.99 per 5 cu ft, as already recorded in this catalog. Mill multi-pallet is $16 per 30 lb.

Who buys it. Retail horse owner, not a backside contract.

Loop. Same material. The $1,081 stall model uses the mill ladder, not this shelf price.

Catalog retail observation. Dakota bag ladder for the mill price.

Equine bedding

The first fill of an empty 12×12 stall.

Spec. 1.0–1.5 lb per square foot. About 145–215 lb. Typically six 30 lb bags.

Price. Six bags on the Dakota ladder: $120 at $20 down to $96 at $16. Year-1 net is lower than $1,081 because of this fill.

Who buys it. The barn, once, at conversion.

Loop. This is the material line inside the stall ledger, not a second revenue stream.

Bulk Hemp Warehouse depth guidance, as used on the stall page. Dakota bag ladder.

Equine bedding

Daily manure pick without a monthly full strip of the stall.

Spec. Labor hours, not a particle size. Conservative model uses 25 percent less labor than pine.

Price. No separate SKU price. The labor saving is inside the $1,081 stall net.

Who buys it. The barn manager.

Loop. Less waste volume, about 40 percent, is what the compost half of the $1,081 is built on.

Stall ledger, conservative case. Dakota claim that monthly strips stop.

Other animal

Hurd used in nest boxes and small-animal cages.

Spec. Often an 8–30 lb bag. Shallower than a horse stall. A henhouse is not the 302 lb horse-stall year.

Price. quote. The horse-stall bag ladder is not the henhouse model.

Who buys it. Poultry house, feed store, small-animal buyer.

Loop. Same mill stream. The spent pack can compost. It is not the horse Clean Loop math.

Dakota hurd spec for the material. Pack size is trade practice, not a NASS price.

Other animal

Hurd as a dairy freestall or pack bedding.

Spec. Bulk or super-sack. Tons, not 30 lb bags.

Price. quote

Who buys it. Dairy.

Loop. Cattle add tons of manure. The horse stall is still the priced spec on this site.

Material spec: Dakota hurd. No dairy price is published here.

Other animal

Pallet or truckload hurd for zoos and sanctuaries.

Spec. Pallet 1,200 lb or super-sack. Species-specific depth.

Price. quote. Dominion and peers sell this channel. No public 2026 truck price is on this site.

Who buys it. Zoo, sanctuary, bulk distributor.

Loop. Mill sales beyond the racetrack. Estimate if converted. Compost returns if the barn sends the waste back.

Trade channel already named in this catalog. Price: quote.

Fiber & textile

The long outer fiber left after hurd is taken out of the stalk.

Spec. HempTrain: up to 36 in intact. FiberTrack 660: generally longer than 3 in. About 30 percent of stalk in this model, an assumption.

Price. Hemp Traders 2026 truckload, F-B1 green decorticated, $0.40/lb. Cited mid-grade farm-gate bast $1.20–$1.50/lb. NASS retted stalk $0.20/lb is not this fiber.

Who buys it. Spinner, nonwoven mill, hemp-wood buyer.

Loop. Coproduct of the bedding mill. It does not change the $1,081 stall net.

Hemp Traders 2026 wholesale list. CGT 2025 data sheet. Formation Ag FiberTrack 660 page. NASS hempan26.pdf Apr 2026.

Fiber & textile

Short bast left after the long line is pulled.

Spec. Short fiber, inches not feet. Bale weight is a mill quote.

Price. Hemp Traders 2026 short-fiber factory columns sit above the $0.40 truckload long-fiber floor. Use the list, or quote. The $0.20/lb NASS stalk price is not this fiber.

Who buys it. Insulation, nonwoven, and composite mills.

Loop. Still a coproduct of decortication. Not a stall bag.

Hemp Traders 2026 wholesale list.

Fiber & textile

Spun and woven apparel cloth.

Spec. Needs scutching, hackling, and spinning after the mill.

Price. quote. Yarn is not the $0.40 truckload fiber and not the NASS stalk price.

Who buys it. Mill and brand. Not a barn.

Loop. Downstream of bast. Outside the stall ledger.

Process sequence. No 2026 US yarn price is printed here.

Fiber & textile

Cordage spun from bast.

Spec. Laid or braided rope. Diameter is the spec.

Price. quote

Who buys it. Marine and farm suppliers.

Loop. Bast sales. Not bedding.

No current US rope price is printed here.

Fiber & textile

Heavy woven work cloth.

Spec. Lower yarn spec than apparel. Ounces per square yard.

Price. quote

Who buys it. Workwear and industrial cloth mills.

Loop. Bast sales.

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Fiber & textile

A mat of short fiber, not a woven cloth.

Spec. Grams per square meter. Auto, mulch, filtration.

Price. quote

Who buys it. Auto interior and nonwoven mills.

Loop. Short-fiber sales from the same decortication.

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Building

Lime binder plus hemp hurd, cast as a non-structural wall infill.

Spec. IRC Appendix BL dry density 12.5–25 pcf. About R-2.10/in at low density, about R-1.20/in at high density. Grade A hurd: low fines, no long fiber.

Price. quote per cubic yard installed. The wall is not priced at the $16 bedding bag.

Who buys it. Builder and the mill that sells the Grade A cut.

Loop. Second cut from the same stalk. Not the stall bed, and not double-counted as compost carbon.

IRC Appendix BL. Adoption notes: Austin TX, Maricopa County AZ, City of Surprise AZ, 2026 writing.

Building

A precast hempcrete unit instead of a site-cast wall.

Spec. Block dimensions and density on the producer sheet. Same 12.5–25 pcf band if it claims Appendix BL.

Price. quote

Who buys it. Builder.

Loop. Hurd leaves the mill as a block, not as a stall bag.

IRC Appendix BL for the density band. Block price: quote.

Building

A batt of bast or tow used as insulation.

Spec. R-value per inch on the product sheet. Not the hempcrete R.

Price. quote

Who buys it. Builder and insulation distributor.

Loop. Bast or tow, not the bedding hurd.

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Building

Lime-hemp sprayed into a wall form on site.

Spec. Contractor crew, cubic yards placed, density checked against Appendix BL.

Price. quote as a placed-yard service.

Who buys it. Owner, through a contractor.

Loop. Service around the hurd. The mill still sells the hurd.

IRC Appendix BL. Service price: quote.

Building

A finish coat of lime with fine hurd.

Spec. Smaller particle than stall bedding. High surface area.

Price. quote

Who buys it. Plaster contractor.

Loop. Fines from the mill, not the 1/4–1.5 in bedding cut.

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Food & grain

The whole hemp seed, before it is hulled or pressed.

Spec. NASS 2025: 7,515 harvested acres, 966 lb/acre.

Price. NASS 2025 utilized value $8,092,000, about $1.11/lb and about $1,077/acre. Not $0.20/lb stalk and not the Dakota bag.

Who buys it. Grain miller and food packer.

Loop. A different crop on the rotation. It does not enter the stall ledger.

NASS hempan26.pdf Apr 2026.

Food & grain

Dehulled hemp seed sold as food.

Spec. Food-grade clean plant. Protein in the 30 percent class is a label claim that needs the packer’s COA.

Price. quote. Retail hearts are not the NASS $1.11/lb grain price.

Who buys it. Food packer.

Loop. Downstream of grain. Separate room from the bedding mill.

NASS hempan26.pdf Apr 2026 for the grain. Hearts price: quote.

Food & grain

A protein concentrate milled from hemp seed.

Spec. Food ingredient. Allergen and nutrition panel on the label.

Price. quote

Who buys it. Food manufacturer.

Loop. Grain downstream. Not a cannabinoid product and not a stall product.

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Food & grain

Flour milled from hemp seed for bakery use.

Spec. Allergen labeling required.

Price. quote

Who buys it. Baker and ingredient buyer.

Loop. Grain downstream.

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Oil & nutrition

Oil pressed from hemp seed without solvents.

Spec. Food oil. GLA is a composition claim, not a drug claim.

Price. quote per gallon. Not the NASS grain price and not the hurd bag.

Who buys it. Food packer and the press room.

Loop. Press cake is the coproduct. The stall is not in this line.

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Oil & nutrition

The dry cake left after seed oil is pressed.

Spec. Livestock feed only where the state feed rule allows it.

Price. quote

Who buys it. Feed mill, where legal.

Loop. Seed loop, not the spent-bedding loop. Cake nitrogen is not the hurd compost claim.

quote. AAFCO or state feed rule governs the sale.

Paper & pulp

Paper made from hemp pulp.

Spec. Sheet weight in pounds or grams per square meter. Specialty and archival, not newsprint.

Price. quote

Who buys it. Paper mill.

Loop. Bast or hurd pulp. Not a stall SKU.

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Paper & pulp

Wet or dried pulp beaten from bast.

Spec. Tons, consistency, and brightness on the mill sheet.

Price. quote per ton.

Who buys it. Paper mill.

Loop. Bast sales.

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Paper & pulp

A thin specialty paper, historically a hemp use.

Spec. Grams per square meter, very light.

Price. quote

Who buys it. Specialty paper converter.

Loop. Not a mill thesis and not a stall product.

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Composites & auto

A pressed natural-fiber panel for a door card or dash.

Spec. Panel weight and fiber length. FiberTrack fiber is generally over 3 inches. HempTrain can hold up to 36 inches.

Price. quote per panel.

Who buys it. Auto interior supplier.

Loop. Bast sales. Not a stall bag.

CGT fiber-length claim. Formation Ag fiber-length claim. Panel price: quote.

Composites & auto

A polymer filled with hurd or short fiber.

Spec. Percent filler, melt index, part weight.

Price. quote

Who buys it. Compounder.

Loop. Hurd or tow that did not go to a stall.

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Composites & auto

A pressed sheet of hurd for interior use.

Spec. Thickness and density. It is not hempcrete and it is not MDF unless the sheet says so.

Price. quote per sheet.

Who buys it. Millwork shop.

Loop. Hurd sales beside bedding.

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Soil & compost

Soiled hurd and horse manure, composted.

Spec. About 6 cubic yards a stall a year in the conservative ledger, versus about 10 for pine. C:N about 25–35:1. 6–9 months.

Price. Base planning price $25 a cubic yard. Live range $20–$60. Half of that value is already inside the $1,081. The mill books only the other half.

Who buys it. Farm, landscaper, the acres that grew the fiber.

Loop. Clean Loop. Waste out of the stall, soil back onto the fiber acres.

Stall ledger. Dakota compost window 6–9 months. Compost notes for the Kentucky 2025 E. coli comparison.

Soil & compost

Clean or spent hurd spread on the surface of soil.

Spec. Bedding particle, 1/4–1.5 in. It still breaks down. It is not finished compost.

Price. quote per cubic yard.

Who buys it. Garden and farm.

Loop. A surface use. If it is soiled bedding, the compost clock still applies.

Dakota particle band. Price: quote.

Soil & compost

Finished compost from hurd and horse manure, used as a soil amendment.

Spec. About 1–1.5 percent nitrogen. Applied in tons per acre, not bags per stall.

Price. Same $25/cy planning price as the compost, unless a soil test sets another number. The barn’s compost credit is already inside the $1,081.

Who buys it. The fiber farm.

Loop. End of Clean Loop.

Compost notes. Stall ledger half-credit.

Soil & compost

Leaving stalk in the field so microbes loosen the bast.

Spec. Days and weather. It sets fiber quality. It is not a compost pile.

Price. quote as an agronomic service, or it is just the grower’s time.

Who buys it. Grower, sometimes a mill that contracts the practice.

Loop. Before the mill. Bad retting shows up as hurd on the fiber.

Agronomic practice. No USDA service price is printed here.

Equipment

A small decorticator in the HurdMaster class, for a farm, not a region.

Spec. Hand-fed or small infeed. Not 2,000 lb an hour and not a 96-foot line.

Price. quote. It is not the FiberTrack core and not the HempTrain.

Who buys it. A farm with its own stalk and a small barn.

Loop. Can bed 40–80 stalls if the farm grows the stalk. It does not replace a track mill.

Class description. Price: quote.

Equipment

A combine headed for hemp grain or for fiber stalk.

Spec. Grain header and fiber header are not the same. Stalk length is the constraint.

Price. About $550,000 as a directory list already carried in this catalog (GM Insights). Not a 2026 dealer bid.

Who buys it. Grower.

Loop. Cuts the crop the mill will buy. It is not the decorticator.

Prior directory figure in this catalog. Confirm with a dealer.

Equipment

The baler that makes round or square stalk bales the mill can open.

Spec. Bale diameter or size. Density sets how many pounds an hour the decorticator sees. HempTrain takes round or square. FiberTrack round bales to about 72 in diameter by 66 in wide with the unwind module.

Price. quote

Who buys it. Grower and custom operator.

Loop. Logistics between field and mill. Dakota buys bales from inside about 100 miles.

CGT and Formation infeed descriptions. Baler price: quote.

Equipment

The line that puts hurd into the 30 lb bedding bag.

Spec. Bags per hour and bag weight. A CGT hurd bagger is a separate unit, about 18 kVA, about 15 lb heat-sealed bags at about 80 an hour. Dakota also sells 30 lb bags, so the room has to match the SKU.

Price. quote. Not included in a bare FiberTrack core. On the FiberTrack bedding-ready list the supersack filler is $64,036, which is not this 30 lb bagger.

Who buys it. The mill.

Loop. Turns hurd into the stall SKU. Without it the mill sells bulk.

CGT bagger note already on the plant page. Formation module list for the supersack filler.

Testing & compliance

A pre-harvest test that the lot is hemp.

Spec. Total THC at or below 0.3 percent dry weight. P.L. 119-37, effective 12 November 2026. DEA-lab enforcement delayed to 31 December 2026.

Price. quote per sample.

Who buys it. Grower and the mill that will take the lot.

Loop. Gate before any stalk becomes bedding. Industrial hemp is stalk, grain, oil, cake, fiber, immature plants.

P.L. 119-37, 12 November 2025. USDA hemp program sampling.

Testing & compliance

The lab sheet that travels with a lot.

Spec. For bedding: moisture, particle size, dust. Microbiology if a buyer asks. Not a cannabinoid menu.

Price. quote

Who buys it. Barn, builder, food packer, each for a different panel.

Loop. The stall buyer needs the bedding panel. The grain buyer needs a different panel.

Trade practice. Price: quote.

Testing & compliance

A lot number that ties a pallet back to a field.

Spec. USDA farm lot, bale count, and the COA id.

Price. No SKU. It is a record.

Who buys it. Mill and the regulator.

Loop. Required before the bag is a legal industrial product.

USDA hemp lot identification.

Seed & genetics

Seed of a cultivar grown for stalk, sometimes with a grain coproduct.

Spec. Fiber, or dual-purpose. NASS 2025 fiber yield 3,104 lb/acre is the national average, not a variety promise.

Price. quote per pound of seed.

Who buys it. Grower, under a mill contract.

Loop. Sets the hurd and bast split the mill will actually see. The 70/30 split on the brief is an assumption until the variety is named.

NASS hempan26.pdf Apr 2026. Seed price: quote.

Seed & genetics

Seed of a cultivar grown for grain.

Spec. NASS 2025 grain yield 966 lb/acre is the national average.

Price. quote

Who buys it. Grain grower.

Loop. Rotation crop. Not the stall crop.

NASS hempan26.pdf Apr 2026.

Seed & genetics

Planting seed with a known origin and a low-THC record.

Spec. Certification tag. Fiber, grain, or dual-purpose. No flower cultivar in this library.

Price. quote

Who buys it. Grower.

Loop. The only seed a mill should write into a contract.

State seed certification. Price: quote.

Carbon & services

The carbon held in a hempcrete wall, described, not sold.

Spec. Appendix BL wall, density 12.5–25 pcf. No registry serial on this card.

Price. Not a sold offset. Quote only if a registry later issues a credit. It is not booked here.

Who buys it. Nobody, on this page. A builder buys the wall. A registry is a different contract.

Loop. Stall compost and the wall are not the same ton of carbon.

IRC Appendix BL. This card is not a carbon sale.

Carbon & services

A letter that would name stalls and a bag price. None exist today.

Spec. Published counts first: Saratoga 1,820. Price floor $16 / 30 lb.

Price. The barn’s $1,081 is the other side of that bag, not this letter.

Who buys it. No barn has signed one.

Loop. The letter would name stalls and a bag price. None are on file.

Dakota bag ladder. Stall ledger. NYRA stall count.

Carbon & services

A study of where a mill sits relative to horses and fiber acres.

Spec. The map on this site: horse density, tracks, and the two proof plants in South Dakota.

Price. quote if an outside firm does it. The map itself is on this site.

Who buys it. Mill developer.

Loop. The mill follows the stall. Lexington is the first copy for either machine.

This site’s map. Kentucky 4,800 planted hemp acres, 2025, second nationally, as carried on the plant page.

Personal care

A bar of soap made with hempseed oil.

Spec. Seed oil. No cannabinoid. No leaf mark.

Price. quote

Who buys it. Soap maker.

Loop. Downstream of the press. Not the stall.

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Personal care

A lotion that uses hempseed oil as the fat.

Spec. Cosmetic label. Cannabinoid cosmetics stay out of this industrial lane after November 2026.

Price. quote

Who buys it. Personal-care packer.

Loop. Seed oil only.

P.L. 119-37 for the lane. Lotion price: quote.

Packaging

Loose hurd used in place of plastic packing peanuts.

Spec. Off-spec or short hurd. Not the screened bedding cut if a barn is waiting on bags.

Price. quote per pound or per cubic foot.

Who buys it. Packer.

Loop. Mill sales for hurd that is not bagged for stalls.

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Packaging

A tray molded from hemp pulp.

Spec. Competes with bagasse. Weight per tray.

Price. quote

Who buys it. Packaging converter.

Loop. Bast or tow pulp. Not a stall SKU.

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Industrial absorbents

Hurd packed to soak up oil or shop fluids.

Spec. Dakota bedding absorbency is 4–5 times its weight. A spill product needs its own test.

Price. quote

Who buys it. Shop and industrial supplier.

Loop. Same hurd stream. Not the stall price.

Dakota absorbency spec. Spill price: quote.

Industrial absorbents

A sock or boom filled with hurd.

Spec. Length and fill weight on the label.

Price. quote

Who buys it. Industrial supplier.

Loop. Hurd sales beside bedding.

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Energy

Spent bedding burned only after compost buyers are full.

Spec. Moisture of the pile. Not the first use.

Price. quote per ton, and only for the residual.

Who buys it. Boiler, if anyone.

Loop. Last, after Clean Loop. The $1,081 compost half assumes soil, not fuel.

Stall ledger compost treatment. Fuel price: quote.

Energy

A small combined heat and power unit on mill dust and fines.

Spec. kW thermal and electric on the vendor sheet. Not a second product line.

Price. quote. It is not added to hurd revenue.

Who buys it. The mill, as a utility, not as a customer.

Loop. Uses dust. Does not replace compost.

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Research

A land-grant variety or agronomy trial.

Spec. Plot yield, not a national forecast. NASS 2025 fiber is 3,104 lb/acre harvested average.

Price. Grant or university budget. Not a product price.

Who buys it. University. Kentucky, Colorado, New York, and Pennsylvania have prior hemp-trial history.

Loop. Tells the mill which cultivar to plant. It is not a purchase order.

NASS hempan26.pdf Apr 2026 for the national yield. Trial price: not a SKU.

Research

A study of dust and respiration in a stall bedded on hurd.

Spec. Sampler, stall, and a control bed. This card does not state a health result.

Price. Study budget. quote.

Who buys it. University or a barn paying for a trial.

Loop. The barn question beside price. Not a claim on this card.

Study type only. No completed respiratory claim is printed here.

Research

An assay of mold and hygiene in stall bedding.

Spec. Lab panel. The 2025 University of Kentucky comparison of E. coli in hemp hurd plus manure versus pine and straw is on the compost notes. It is not a mycotoxin clearance.

Price. quote per sample.

Who buys it. Barn and lab.

Loop. Hygiene of the bed that later becomes compost.

Compost notes for the UK 2025 E. coli comparison. Mycotoxin claim: not made here.