Episode 170: Reviving Degraded Soils Through ...

In this Podcast Extra, Brody Benton of Six B and John Kempf, founder of Advancing Eco Agriculture, dig into why plants are shutting down weeks before black layer, what top dieback is actually telling you, and how nitrogen form, leaf temperature, and trace minerals decide whether ...  Show more

Ed Baumgartner is a corn breeder and co-founder of Bass Hybrids in Olivia, Minnesota. His family has been in the seed corn business since the late 1930s, when his great uncles began producing hybrid seed as Troy Farms. Ed studied agronomy and plant genetics and spent 21 years and ...  Show more

Dani talks with Ryland Engelhardt and Finnian Makepeace about their organization <span class="il">Kiss</span> <span class= "il">the</span> <span class="il">Ground</span> and their 2020 documentary. <span class="il">Kiss</span> <span class= "il">the</span> <span class="il">Grou ...

In this episode, we're exploring how to engage farmers, landowners and locals to improve soil health collaboratively. Our guest today - Jessica Gnad is a dedicated soil health advocate with over a decade of experience in the food and farming industries. Jess is the executive dire ...  Show more

Our health and the health of our soil are deeply intertwined. Modern agriculture has become heavily dependent on synthetic inputs and industrial practices that strip the land of vitality, and the farmers of agency. Many farmers no longer eat what they grow, suffer from poor healt ...  Show more

In this episode, we're discussing the role of microbe communities in soil. How microbes can be profiled to better understand what is happening underground, how to nurture and retain microbes and how they impact plant growth. We're also gonna talk about carbon storage in the soil ...  Show more