Active organizations explicitly classified as producers in the sourcing dataset.
Evidence / Domestic material capacity
The United States grows the stalk and buys back the finished material.
Domestic capacity is not a slogan. It is a measurable relationship between acreage, processing, specifications, contracted demand, and delivered cost.
Evidence reviewed August 8, 2026These are the numbers we hold ourselves to. They start at zero and we publish them anyway.
Organizations with an indexed capability that names at least one material output.
Distinct public source URLs attached to active organization records.
01 / The circular supply chain
Raw material leaves. Value returns.
US crop01Offshore processing02Finished fibre + fabric03US manufacturer
American-grown stalk can leave the country for refinement and return as finished fibre or fabric. Available trade classifications do not isolate every hemp intermediate, so the scale of that loop cannot yet be stated as a defensible national share. USITC identifies this data limitation and the concentration of cultivation and trade among the United States, China, Canada, and Europe.
USITC, Grass Roots: The Regrowth of Hemp Globally?, May 202302 / The binding constraint
The bottleneck is bankability.
A processing plant needs credible offtake. A manufacturer needs repeatable material. Neither side can contract confidently when specifications, capacity, geography, and lot performance are undocumented.
Lenderneeds contracted demandProcessorneeds financeManufacturerneeds repeatable specification
Hemplat does not build plants. It produces the sourcing evidence that can make a processing proposal financeable.
No maintained public dataset currently establishes a national count of operating commercial decortication sites or a representative capital cost per facility. Hemplat will publish those figures only when a directly supporting source is available.
USDA ARS processing-hub project, Sep. 2024–Aug. 202603 / Where farms go next
Industrial hemp remains a distinct lane.
Federal law changes the hemp definition on November 12, 2026 to a total-THC basis and excludes final hemp-derived cannabinoid products above 0.4 mg combined total THC per container. The same law expressly preserves industrial hemp grown for stalks, fibre, whole grain, oil, and other non-cannabinoid uses.
The 2026 House Farm Bill draft proposes a production designation and modified sampling and testing procedures for industrial hemp. It is proposed legislation, not current law. Farms can enter that lane only where processing is inside an economic haul radius and documented demand exists behind it.
See indexed processing geography04 / Material dependence
Industrial fibre is an import dependency that can be reduced.
US manufacturers already use natural fibres in textiles, insulation, construction systems, and composites. China and Europe have deeper processing infrastructure and established specifications. Domestic substitution is possible only where US output meets the same repeatability, documentation, form factor, and delivered-cost requirements.
USITC notes that trade data for some fibre-hemp intermediates remains incomplete. Hemplat therefore measures individual domestic and import matches rather than publishing an unsupported national dependency percentage.
USITC trade briefing and hemp review, May 202305 / Standards set trade
Whoever writes the specification sets the trade.
Without comparable requirements for hurd, bast fibre, grain, and converted materials, manufacturers buy to a supplier's private vocabulary. A shared specification turns price into one comparable field among form, moisture, density, test method, freight, and lot performance.
Publishing those requirements is the platform's core function: not excluding imported lots, but making domestic and imported supply compete against the same documented need.
Open the hurd specification referenceHonest scale / downside included
This is a small industry.
USDA recorded 32,694 harvested open-field acres across all hemp uses in 2024. A realistic seven-year horizon is dozens of processing plants and thousands—not millions—of rural jobs. That is a planning horizon, not a forecast.
There is a downside risk. If contraction in cannabinoid markets reduces total acreage, fibre and grain may also lose shared farm services, regional drying, aggregation, and other infrastructure. The industrial lane is preserved in law; its operating infrastructure is not guaranteed.
USDA NASS National Hemp Report, released Apr. 17, 2025Agencies + research