Ag Emerge Podcast

136 AgEmerge Podcast With David Brandt in Memoriam

May 21, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 82.3 MB

AgEmerge Podcast Episode 136 is dedicated to David Brandt, of Brandt Farms and Walnut Creek Seed. If you know your soil health, no-till history, and follow the leaders in these areas then you know how fortunate we were to get to visit with David before his passing. Watch the episode here: https://youtu.be/Hmsi9yDDtbM We lost David in a tragic vehicle accident on May 21st, 2023. Earlier that year he’d made a 2023 visit to Sinsinawa Mound in Wisconsin, where the Sinsinawa River begins its 21-...

135 AgEmerge Podcast With Brad Rosen COO and Co-Founder of NODAR

May 07, 2024 12:00 - 49 minutes - 68.2 MB

Thanks for joining us! Today we welcome Brad Rosen the COO and Co-Founder of NODAR, a leading provider of next generation of stereo vision technology. Technology developments in agriculture continue to create effective ways for automation and sensing providing farmers with useful information and working to improve operation efficiency. Today Brad and Monte discuss the power of the type of sensing technology NODAR has developed. It’s a great conversation so let’s jump right in. Brad Rosen is...

134 AgEmerge Podcast With Jeanne Carver Shaniko Wool Co

April 23, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 85.9 MB

Thanks for joining us! Today we welcome Jeanne Carver, Founder and President of Shaniko Wool Her story is one of successful adaptation to changing market needs. Jeanne and her late husband Dan have been using sustainable / regenerative practices for decades. Jeanne shares with us that Dan was an engineer and a systems thinker which is key to how they understood the land, soil and their operation. From her family’s Imperial Stock Ranch, she and Dan transitioned from selling commodity lamb a...

133 AgEmerge Podcast With Chris Jones

April 09, 2024 11:59 - 54 minutes - 74.7 MB

Thanks for joining us! Today we welcome Chris Jones a Retired Research Engineer from the University of Iowa and author of The Swine Republic, Struggles with Truth About Agriculture and Water Quality. Today he and Monte discuss the agricultural efficiencies and practices that we can make happen in more environmentally responsible ways. That includes a system approach to our entire management practices. Chris talks about how we can work to deploy these practices in enough areas that they can ma...

132 AgEmerge Podcast With Pamela Tanner Boll

March 26, 2024 12:00 - 58 minutes - 79.5 MB

Thanks for joining us! Today we welcome Pamela Tanner Boll an artist, filmmaker, writer as well as the Director and Executive Producer of several films including To Which We Belong. She is also the Founder and CEO of Mystic Artists Film Productions. We’re excited to explore her vision as she worked to, in her words, “shine a light on the amazing possibilities for restoring our lands. And how we could fix our water problems and our climate issues.” She loves farmers and all of that was what br...

131 AgEmerge Podcast With Kevin Helash of Biotalys

March 12, 2024 12:00 - 57 minutes - 79 MB

Thanks for joining us! Today we welcome Kevin Helash to the podcast. Kevin is the CEO of Biotalys an AgTech company developing protein-based biocontrol solutions for crop and food protection. Listen in as he and Monte discuss these exciting advancements in science and the technology. Kevin has a 30-year career committed to supporting the agriculture industry and its most innovative advancements. Kevin is passionate about the future of sustainable agriculture. I think Kevin said it best when ...

130 AgEmerge Podcast With Dr. Steven Chen

February 27, 2024 13:00 - 57 minutes - 78.7 MB

Thanks for joining us, today we welcome Dr. Steven Chen, Chief Medical Officer of Alameda County Recipe4Health, an award-winning “food as medicine” model that intentionally brings together health care, food systems, and agriculture to improve food/nutrition insecurity, chronic conditions, and health/racial equity, while leading the scale and spread of Recipe4Health (R4H). Dr. Steven Chen is Chief Medical Officer of Alameda County Recipe4Health, an award-winning “food as medicine” model that ...

129 AgEmerge Podcast With Dr. Jonathan Lundgren Founder of Ecdysis and Blue Dasher Farm

February 13, 2024 13:00 - 54 minutes - 125 MB

Thanks for joining us! Today we welcome Dr. Jonathan Lundgren, Founder and Director of the Ecdysis Foundation and Director and CEO of Blue Dasher Farm. Jonathan was one of our speakers at the very first AgEmerge event and his presentation was so powerful. Watching the work that he and his whole team are doing at Ecdysis and Blue Dasher Farm inspires us to continue to learn and understand the biodiversity necessary to nurture our land. In this episode of the podcast Jonathan says, “you know ...

128 AgEmerge Podcast With Soil Scientist - Dr. Don Reicosky

January 30, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour - 93.9 MB

Thanks for joining us! Today we welcome Dr. Don Reicosk. Dr. Reicosky is a retired Soil Scientist for the USDA-ARS, North Central Soil Conservation Research Laboratory, Morris, MN, and Adjunct Professor in the Soil Science Department, University of Minnesota, St. Paul. He has an exciting discussion with Monte about the foundational research he conducted back in the late 1990’s finding that tillage releases carbon into the atmosphere in sudden rushes of CO2 as the soil is opened up. And now,...

127 AgEmerge Podcast With Jason Rowntree Prof of Animal Science at Michigan State University

January 16, 2024 13:00 - 54 minutes - 75.1 MB

Welcome to the podcast, today Dr. Jason Rowntree joins Monte as they have a great discussion about Jason’s research that focuses on identifying the metrics and management that reflect ecological improvement in grazing land and other agricultural systems. And just like many of our guest, he had a moment where his paradigm shifted and it came in the form of a series of hurricanes. And that got him thinking about resilience and what does it mean to look at resilience in agriculture. Jason is als...

126 AgEmerge Podcast At The Big Soil Health Event

January 02, 2024 13:00 - 2 hours - 283 MB

Thanks for joining us! At the end of 2023, we took the AgEmerge Podcast on the road to the Big Soil Health Event in Cedar Falls, Iowa. It was a great event where hundreds of farmers and ranchers from all over the country gathered to learn, share, and encourage each other to continue to adopt soil health strategies. We asked attendees to join us in our “on the road" studio to share their soil health journey and I want to tell you, get a tissue. These are heartfelt, raw stories of family, legac...

125 AgEmerge Podcast With Doniga Markegard

December 19, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour - 88.1 MB

Thanks for joining us, today we welcome Doniga Markegard a wildlife tracker, regenerative rancher, speaker, and author. Doniga and Monte have a wonderful conversation discussing the methods Doniga and her family are using to graze their animals, how they observe and interact with nature, to lead towards a more biodiverse and balanced ecosystem and they are seeing incredible results. Along with her husband and four children, Doniga owns and operates Markegard Family Grass-Fed raising grass-fe...

124 AgEmerge Podcast Soil Health Human Health Connection

December 05, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 81.5 MB

Thanks for joining us! As the year draws to a close, we often find ourselves evaluating the results of this year's harvest and reflecting on the systems and practices we’ve adopted to improve soil health. Some of our guests have shared with us that they’ve changed their practices not only for soil health and water quality but also because of a health event in their lives that prompted an examination of their current systems. Today, we’re bringing you a medley of guests who explore the human...

123 AgEmerge Podcast With Dianna Bagnall a Research Scientist for the Soil Health Institute

November 21, 2023 13:00 - 55 minutes - 75.5 MB

Thanks for joining us, today we welcome Dr. Dianna Bagnall a Research Soil Scientist for the Soil Health Institute. Her current work includes integrating research and outreach to secure the global soil resource. Some of her specific research includes developing functions that show the effect of management on soil physical properties, on-farm soil health assessments, qualitative analysis of farmer interviews, and outreach to farmers in the United States. She and Monte discuss the importance of...

122 AgEmerge Podcast With Jimmy Emmons Senior VP for Trust in Food

November 07, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour - 89.7 MB

Thanks for joining us, today we welcome Jimmy Emmons, Jimmy is the SR Vice President of Trust In Food and leads their Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities Connected Ag Project, America’s Conservation Ag Movement and Trust In Beef, coalition-driven conservation programs developed to accelerate the adoption of conservation agriculture at scale. Monte and Jimmy discuss what the successful implementation of these practices looks like and how leaving a legacy is so much more than leaving a p...

121 AgEmerge Podcast With Dr. Jack Schultz

October 24, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 85.1 MB

Thanks for joining us, today we welcome Dr. Jack Schultz, Research Professor in the Department of Biology and Biochemistry at the University of Houston. His research has focused on the chemical and molecular interactions between plants and insect herbivores. And those relationships are what Monte and Dr. Schultz explore as they discuss the amazing communications being discovered between plants and insects. It’s a fascinating conversation so let’s jump right in. Dr. Schultz’s research has foc...

120 AgEmerge Podcast With Dr. Kelsey Griesheim

October 10, 2023 12:00 - 57 minutes - 79 MB

Thanks for joining us, today we welcome Dr. Kelsey Griesheim, Assistant Professor of Soil Fertility at North Dakota State University. She completed her PhD at the University of Illinois, where she worked under Dr. Richard Mulvaney conducting field evaluations to measure fertilizer uptake efficiency of various application types. Monte and Dr. Griesheim take a deep dive into her studies of nitrogen. She gives us a lot to think about like when we apply nitrogen, we’re fertilizing our crops, but ...

119 AgEmerge Podcast Christian Krupke - Dept of Entomology - Purdue University

September 26, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 160 MB

Thanks for joining us, today we welcome Dr. Christian Krupke a professor in the Dept of Entomology at Purdue University where he focuses on insect pest management in field crops. His research has concentrated on illuminating the strengths and weaknesses of the primary pest management approaches used in corn and soybeans. And he has a special focus on Bt corn and neonicotinoid seed treatments. Dr. Krupke and Monte discuss the resilience of nature and how fast it bounces back. They discuss what...

118 AgEmerge Podcast with Anthony Corsaro of Outlaw Ventures & ReGen Brands Podcast

September 12, 2023 12:00 - 59 minutes - 135 MB

Thanks for joining us, today we welcome Anthony Corsaro, an entrepreneur, investor, and regenerative agriculture evangelist whose mission is to help heal our people and planet through ventures that inspire the production and consumption of healthy, nutrient-dense foods. This is a powerful conversation including Anthony’s personal intense health journey and how he walks the walk when it comes to food as medicine. Anthony is the Founder and Managing Director at Outlaw Ventures: a family office...

117 AgEmerge Podcast Erin Meyer - President of Basil's Harvest

August 29, 2023 12:00 - 55 minutes - 127 MB

What an exciting conversation today with Erin Meyer. As you know, we think exploring soil health is of critical importance, as it sheds light not only on its own vitality but also on how it influences ecosystems, food systems, and human well-being. We think this conversation really nails it. Erin is the Founder and President of Basil's Harvest (BH), a nonprofit sharing the message that soil health impacts human health by bringing people together in agriculture, health, and food systems to gr...

116 AgEmerge Soil Health Medley

August 15, 2023 12:00 - 44 minutes - 40.4 MB

Thanks for joining us, today we’re focusing on the soil health principles that so many of our guests encourage growers to adopt and where it’s so important for us to first understand our context, knowing what plants and animals flourish in our specific environments. From there we work to not disturb the soil, reducing and eliminating both mechanical and chemical disruption. Next, we focus on armoring the soil by keeping it covered at all times. As well as keeping a living root in the soil to ...

115 AgEmerge Podcast With Tom Willey

August 01, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 156 MB

Thanks for joining us, today we welcome Tom Willey. Tom, along with his wife Denesse, operated T&D Willey Farms from 1981 until 2016, a seventy-five-acre Certified Organic farm in Madera, California, growing a wide array of Mediterranean vegetables the year round. Tom says, “we've got to figure out how to live on agriculture without destroying the natural systems that support its productivity.” He says organic is all about living biology and the diversity of biology and and the all of the liv...

114 AgEmerge Podcast With Garth Mulkey

July 18, 2023 12:00 - 50 minutes - 68.9 MB

Thanks for joining us, today we welcome Garth Mulkey. Garth and his wife Susan are fourth-generation seed farmers in the Willamette Valley of Western Oregon and have been growing, conditioning, and marketing seeds at the same location since 1966. As dedicated seed producers, they are always focused on seed purity and quality, combined with proven genetics. Today Garth and Monte have a great conversation about the work Garth is doing. A fourth generation family-owned business, GS3 Quality See...

113 AgEmerge Podcast With Eric Fuchs - Understanding Ag Consultant

July 04, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 55.2 MB

Thanks for joining us, today we welcome Eric Fuchs, a consultant for Understanding Ag. Eric’s work and experience make for a great conversation. He lives in Southeast Missouri on a diversified livestock operation where they raise hair sheep and contract graze cattle. He’s been using Holistic Planned Grazing for over eight years and has had a managed grazing system on his operation for more than 20 years. In addition to that, Eric also works in the water and wastewater industry as a source wat...

112 AgEmerge Podcast With Frank Lessiter

June 20, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 79.2 MB

Thanks for joining us today we flip the tables as Frank Lessiter, Lessiter Media Founder and Editor of No-Till Farmer interviews Monte for the No-Till Farmer Influencers and Innovations Podcast. Frank and Monte discuss soil health, no-till and the regenerative agriculture movement and much more. Frank was the son of a fifth-generation Michigan dairy farm father and ag engineer and whose mother, a high school English teacher, influenced his love of storytelling. Pam, a business education gra...

111 AgEmerge Podcast With John Strauser Research Scientist Univ of Wisconsin

June 06, 2023 12:00 - 57 minutes - 78.9 MB

Thanks for joining us, today we welcome John Strauser, a research scientist in the Department of Agronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. John works with colleagues on the Grassland 2.0 project, where they explore what an Agroecological transformation would look like in the Midwestern United States. In today’s conversation, Monte and John talk about those transformations and also about how it’s as much a head game as it is a management game. Dr. Strauser currently serves as a researc...

110 AgEmerge Podcast Sarah Martello - Transparency Wise

May 23, 2023 12:00 - 52 minutes - 72 MB

Thanks for joining us, today we welcome Sarah Martello, CEO and Co-Founder of Transparency Wise, a company created to help people connect with their food. Using a mobile device, shoppers can scan a Transparency Wise QR Code to access enhanced and verifiable product information. Monte and Sarah discuss the opportunities this technology provides in the food chain, from start to finish. Coming from a long line of generational farmers and growing up on a small farm in the Midwest, has inspired...

109 AgEmerge Podcast with Kevin McDonald at Guardian Agriculture

May 09, 2023 12:00 - 55 minutes - 50.5 MB

Thanks for joining us, today we welcome Kevin McDonald, Vice President of Customer and Government Relations at Guardian Agriculture where they develop autonomous eVTOL systems for sustainable farming on a commercial scale. If the term eVTOL is new to you, it stands for electric vertical take-off and landing aircrafts. Guardian Agriculture is working to provide growers access to safe, effective, and precise aerial applications. Kevin McDonald is the Vice President of Customer and Government ...

108 AgEmerge Podcast With Greg Gunthorp - Gunthorp Farms

April 25, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 63.3 MB

Thanks for joining us, today we welcome Greg Gunthorp. Greg is a fourth-generation farmer who is clearly a critical thinker. Greg has re-imagined what livestock production and meat marketing looks like on their farm. His understanding of the history of ag production and his ability to glean knowledge from that history has given him discernment and a great perspective on how to manage and lead their operation. Greg says he likes to act locally and think globally and that really defines the wa...

107 AgEmerge Podcast With Tyler Dawley of Big Bluff Ranch

April 11, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 55.1 MB

Thanks for joining us, today we welcome Tyler Dawley of Big Bluff Ranch in Red Bluff, California. Big Bluff is a family-owned and operated ranch where they lead with quality, health, and happiness as their guiding principles. And while they say Big Bluff Ranch may be a small organic chicken farm compared to high-yield industrial operations, they’re one of the largest producers of pasture-raised chicken on the west coast. Today Monte and Tyler explore the path Big Bluff Ranch is taking to buil...

106 AgEmerge Podcast With Del Ficke of Ficke Cattle Company – Graze Master Genetics®

March 28, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 60.3 MB

Thanks for joining us, today we are excited to welcome Del Ficke. Del owns and operates Ficke Cattle Company and Graze Master Genetics® in eastern Nebraska. With more than 35 years of experience as both an agriculturist and cattleman, he’s consulted on farms and ranches throughout the nation and internationally. Today Del shares his journey of embracing change, problem-solving, and transitioning the dynamics of his farming operation to a more holistic system. Ficke has developed a one-of-...

105 AgEmerge Podcast Adrián Ferrero Co-Founder & CEO of Biome Makers

March 14, 2023 12:00 - 58 minutes - 52.9 MB

Thanks for joining us, today we are excited to welcome Adrián Ferrero, he is the Co-Founder & CEO of Biome Makers. With recognition from the Spanish Government, Illumina Accelerator, and MIT Technology Review —Adrián is a self-described entrepreneur on a mission to improve the world. And he is doing just that as he and his company work to have an impact on how we look at and utilize the soil. He says, “this work at the end of the day helps to improve the way we are farming, the way we preser...

104 AgEmerge Podcast With Mike Callicrate - Callicrate Cattle Co & Ranch Foods Direct

February 28, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour - 55.2 MB

Thanks for joining us, today we are excited to welcome Mike Callicrate a farmer-rancher, business entrepreneur, and family farm advocate. Mike’s knowledge, experience, and sheer will to make things happen will help you connect the dots in the world of farming, ranching, processing, ag tech, and ag markets. He and Monte have a robust conversation that will have your gears turning and probably have you asking, do these guys ever sleep? A native of Evergreen, Colorado, Mike began his career b...

103 AgEmerge Podcast With Ridge Shinn Executive Director of the Northeast Grass-fed Beef Initiative

February 14, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour - 55.2 MB

Thanks for joining us, today we are excited to welcome Ridge Shinn, Executive Director of the Northeast Grass-fed Beef Initiative and co-author of the book Grass-Fed Beef for a Post-Pandemic World. He’s been a leader in the shift from feedlot production to raising cattle on a diet of 100% grass and forages. Today Monte and Ridge talk about everything from soil health, to cover crops to beef genetics, to available markets. It’s a great discussion wrapped up with a powerful message about the ...

102 AgEmerge Podcast With Omar De Kok Mercado - Savanna Institute

January 31, 2023 13:00 - 55 minutes - 75.4 MB

Thanks for joining us, today we are excited to welcome Omar de-Kok Mercado, an Agroforestry Technical Service Provider for the Savanna Institute a Wisconsin-based non-profit organization focused on the widespread adoption of agroforestry in the Midwest. Omar holds degrees in soil microbiology and agroecology and is using that knowledge to literally change the landscape by helping growers adopt agroforestry systems by integrating trees, crops, and livestock to foster ecological resilience, cl...

101 AgEmerge Podcast With Jay Fuhrer, Conservationist

January 17, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour - 89.7 MB

Thanks for joining us, today we welcome Conservationist, Jay Fuhrer, a name I’m sure most of you recognize. Jay has dedicated his life to taking care of the soil. He credits his parents for instilling in him a land ethic that has lead to decades of work and research that we all benefit from today. Jay’s approach to solving the problems of soil health is, as he says, doing most of his work with a spade, in a field with his clients. Oh and don’t miss this important quote, Jay says, “diversity...

100 AgEmerge Podcast With Gabe Brown

January 03, 2023 13:00 - 3 hours - 165 MB

Thanks for joining us and welcome to our 100th AgEmerge Podcast. It's hard to believe we've recorded 100 episodes with some of the great change makers in agriculture, from scientists, and researchers, to medical doctors and ag entrepreneurs, we’ve tried to bring you the full gamut of all things regenerative agriculture. Today is a pinnacle for us as we host Gabe Brown, our first on-stage AgEmerge Keynote speaker and one of the influential forces that challenged our thinking about the way we f...

099 AgEmerge Podcast With Steve Statler of Wiliot

December 20, 2022 13:00 - 58 minutes - 53.4 MB

Thanks for joining us, we’ve got a great conversation with Steve Statler Senior Vice President of Marketing & ESG at Wiliot. Imagine technology the size of a postage stamp, changing the way we make, distribute and sell food and consumables. It is technology that can make our supply chain more efficient and it cut food waste. AgEmerge has purposefully focused on bringing together regenerative agriculture and emerging technologies to make regenerative farming possible anywhere and everywher...

098 AgEmerge Podcast With Nofence Meghan Filbert And Allysse Sorensen

December 06, 2022 13:00 - 56 minutes - 50.9 MB

Thanks for joining us, today we welcome Meghan Filbert and Allysse Sorensen to the podcast. Meghan and Allysse are both part of the US Nofence team and they’re working with growers to bring livestock back to the land. They both have extensive experience in addressing barriers to grazing both perennial and annual forages. And, the more we learn about building soil health the more we know about how livestock can be a critical component in the system including not only soil benefits, but the inc...

097 AgEmerge Podcast with Monte Bottens CEO and Founder of Ag Solutions Network

November 22, 2022 13:00 - 39 minutes - 35.8 MB

Thanks for joining us, did you know that the Ag Emerge Podcast is just three episodes away from our 100th Episode! We really value our listeners and we are excited to celebrate our 100th Episode with Gabe Brown, or as we like to call him, the guy who shifted Monte’s paradigm! We are looking forward to a great conversation with Gabe that will air on Jan 3rd and if you’d like to submit a question you’ve got for Gabe or Monte, click on this link and send them our way. https://forms.gle/PHA...

096 AgEmerge Podcast with Dan Kittredge Executive Director of the Bionutrient Food Association

November 08, 2022 13:00 - 54 minutes - 74.9 MB

Thanks for joining us, today we welcome Dan Kittredge. Dan has been an organic farmer for more than 30 years and the founder and Executive Director of the Bionutrient Food Association (BFA), a non-profit whose mission is to “increase quality in the food supply.” Dan has become one of the leading proponents of “nutrient density,” and works to demonstrate the connections between soil health, plant health, and human health through workshops and speaking engagements across the country and globe, ...

095 AgEmerge Podcast Pat Miletich

October 25, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 142 MB

Thanks for joining us, we love to cover all topics along the soil health and system spectrum and today is no exception as we welcome Pat Miletich to the podcast. Pat has spent 35 years searching for the top supplements for human health, recovery and performance but you might best know him as a former U.S. Kickboxing and UFC Welterweight Champion. I think it’s safe to say that Pat knows a thing or two about what we put in our bodies and how it affects recovery and performance. What’s really ...

094 AgEmerge Podcast Dr. Mahdi Al - Kaisi

October 11, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 140 MB

Thanks for joining us, today we welcome Dr. Mahdi M. Al-Kaisi a Professor Emeritus of soil physics (soil management/environment), the Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. His research focuses on the effects of crops and tillage systems, crop residue, cover crops, and nitrogen application on soil carbon dynamics, sequestration, greenhouse gas emissions, and ecosystem services. Monte and Dr. Al-Kaisi really connected the dots when it comes to a systems approach, microbial...

093 AgEmerge Podcast with Jerry Hattfield

September 27, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 84.5 MB

Thanks for joining us, today we welcome Jerry Hatfield, Jerry is the retired Director of the USDA-ARS National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment in Ames, Iowa, and his bio illustrates his passion and knowledge for helping growers improve their agronomic systems. Much of Jerry’s focus has been on the evaluation of farming systems and their response to water and nitrogen interactions across soils and remote sensing methods to quantify field variation. A platform for his research u...

092 AgEmerge Podcast Russ Conser - CEO of Blue Nest Beef

September 13, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 62.3 MB

Thanks for joining us, today we welcome Russ Conser. Russ is the CEO of Blue Nest Beef, an e-commerce startup bringing 100% grassfed beef from Audubon-certified bird-friendly land direct to consumer doorsteps nationwide. Theirs is a story of farmers and consumers co-creating a new and better food system that enhances the health of both people and the planet. This conversation really gets us excited not only about what is currently happening but what is on the horizon for improving soil and hu...

091 AgEmerge Podcast Dan Miller CEO & Founder of Steward

August 30, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 82.8 MB

Thanks for joining us, today we welcome Dan Miller, Founder and CEO of Steward. Steward is a private lender providing regenerative farmers, ranchers, fishermen, and producers the capital they need to expand and sustain their businesses. And through Steward’s innovative online platform, qualified lenders have the opportunity to join in their mission and help fund the growth of regenerative agriculture by purchasing loan participations. Steward's story begins with its founder and CEO, Dan Mill...

090 AgEmerge Podcast Dr Allen Williams - Understanding Ag

August 16, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 81.8 MB

Thanks for joining us, today we welcome Dr. Allen Williams a 6th generation family farmer and founding partner of Understanding Ag, the Soil Health Academy, and Regenified. Allen and his colleagues specialize in whole farm and ranch planning based on the concept of regenerative agriculture. They’ve worked in all 50 U.S. States and with farmers in dozens of countries globally. Today we discuss not only what changes can be made in operations but also what changes we have to make internally. A...

089 AgEmerge Podcast Dr John Tooker Prof of Entomology

August 02, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 148 MB

Thanks for joining us, today we welcome Dr. John Tooker. Dr. Tooker is a Professor and Extension Specialist in the Department of Entomology at Pennsylvania State University. We have a great conversation with him as he discusses his research studying relationships among plants, invertebrate herbivores, and natural enemies to understand the factors that regulate populations of herbivorous insects and slugs. Dr. Tooker talks with Monte about how they are helping farmers observe what is happen...

088 AgEmerge Podcast with Eric Jackson and Dr. Stephan vanVliet

July 19, 2022 12:00 - 57 minutes - 131 MB

Thanks for joining us, today we welcome Eric Jackson and Dr. Stephan vanVliet, Eric currently serves as the Board Chair of the Bionutrient Food Association, on the BoD of Victory Hemp Foods and an advisor to Homeplate Foods, Water Asset Management, Other Half Processing and The Yield Lab. He is a Strategic Advisor to the Applied Ecological Institute and he also serves on the Steering Council for the Forever Green Partnership based out of the University of Minnesota. And since we last spoke wi...

088 AgEmerge Podcast with Eric Jackson and Dr. Stephan van Vliet

July 19, 2022 12:00 - 57 minutes - 131 MB

Thanks for joining us, today we welcome Eric Jackson and Dr. Stephan van Vliet, Eric currently serves as the Board Chair of the Bionutrient Food Association, on the BoD of Victory Hemp Foods and an advisor to Homeplate Foods, Water Asset Management, Other Half Processing and The Yield Lab. He is a Strategic Advisor to the Applied Ecological Institute and he also serves on the Steering Council for the Forever Green Partnership based out of the University of Minnesota. And since we last spoke w...

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