Ag Emerge Podcast

You know, building and improving our systems approach to soil health isn’t just a movement happening on the farm. There are more and more companies coming alongside growers to encourage the implementation of these practices, understanding the value of restoring our soils while addressing consumer concerns and desires. In today’s podcast, we’ve got a great opportunity to explore some of those ideas...

There's great work being done, building a new ag paradigm and we'll be talking about all of that work at our 2021 AgEmerge Event. Save the date, January 6th, 2021. Stay tuned as we will have more information on all the details and speakers joining us for this great event. Go to www.agemerge.com and subscribe to receive event information updates. Today Larry Kandarian of Kandarian Organic Farms joi...

So good we gave it a reboot! And we think we'll have you doing your own system reboot as we talk research on plant, microbe, and soil interactions. It’s hard to believe we’ve been doing the AgEmerge podcast for a year and a half. Today we’re doing a reboot with a podcast we recorded early on in our podcasts, why? Because this is some cool research that's helping us understand the incredible intera...

In today’s episode, we meet Megan Silcott. She’s a Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo graduate, where she earned her undergrad degree in Agricultural Science with minors in Ag Business, Ag Communications, and Spanish, and a master’s in Agricultural Education. Following undergrad, Megan worked for a commercial fertilizer company and learned the ins and outs of bulk production, sales, and marketing. In 2011...

What’s the win-win product of integrating livestock on the land? Grateful Graze will tell you it’s great-tasting pastured protein. In today’s episode, we’re continuing the conversation we began a few weeks ago on the podcast when the Bottens Family Farm livestock team discussed the fifth principle of soil health that promotes the synergistic role between plants, animals, and soil. Today we’ll cont...

On today’s podcast, take a rest from the tractor seat and hop into the office seat for a fresh view of one of your most important resources, your data. More than ever, as we explore new practices in regenerative agriculture, the importance of accurate, timely, data collection and practices can be critical to the success of an operation. Today we’re discussing what growers are doing to capture cost...

On today’s episode, the livestock team from Bottens Family Farms, joins us to talk about livestock integration and what that diversity means for the farm and the soil. You’ve heard us talk so much about the soil health principles and today we’re going to focus on the last of those principles, livestock integration. This fifth principle describes the synergistic role between plants, animals and soi...

Steve and Monte have long discussed, researched, and evaluated the use of cover crops, but not only that, they’ve discovered so much through this journey. Join us as they explore what they’ve learned and what the future of cover crop management looks like, the equipment available today that has improved the adoption of these practices. One point they hit home is treating your cover crop like your...

AgEmerge focuses on changing paradigms. When you change paradigms, you change how you think about things. In agriculture, we’ve had to change how we think about things, things like tillage, soil biology, mono-cropping, soil health, fertilizer, and how we use, the list goes on and on. Mark Twain once said, “What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ai...

In this wide-ranging episode, we take an inspiring soil journey through the eyes of Dr. David Montgomery, telling us his story of exploring how soils shaped human civilizations. That exploration resulted in his book “Dirt, The Erosion of Civilizations” and lead to more learning as he investigated the connections between the geology and biology of the soil. Dr. Montgomery delves into the messy natu...

Today Dr. LaKisha Odom joins us on the podcast. Dr. Odom is a Scientific Program Director at the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research where she pursues her commitment to promoting the use of innovative science, collective impact, and the development of public private partnerships to tackle today’s complex challenges in food and agriculture. She is also extremely committed to cultivating in...

Accelerating change: Learning, problem solving and how this pandemic is affecting American agriculture. Warren Graeff joins us today on the AgEmerge Podcast. Warren is the Senior Vice President, Agriculture Market Manager at PNC Bank and leads the Ag Banking Group throughout the PNC footprint. Since joining PNC in 2007 he developed and implemented the mission and strategy for the PNC Ag Banking Gr...

Today, Nutritional Therapist Emily Collingwood joins us on the AgEmerge Podcast. As a nutritional therapist Emily consults with her clients, helping them to identify and solve diet-related health concerns. Emily is also the creator of the Facebook Group called "Green Avocado Gang!" where she shares ideas, recipes, and encouragement for her followers as they develop healthy eating habits. Emily sha...

This week on the AgEmerge Podcast... Dr. Wayne Honeycutt Dr. Honeycutt is the President and CEO of the Soil Health Institute where he leads the Institute’s programs to safeguard and enhance the vitality and productivity of soils. Among his wealth of experience, Dr. Honeycutt has served as the Deputy Chief for Science and Technology with the USDA-NRCS in Washington, DC, and as a Research Soil Scien...

Today on the AgEmerge podcast, Zara Khan joins us as we discuss how satellite technology can be leveraged to create value in agriculture. Planet has developed the largest constellation of Earth-imaging satellites, which are capturing near-daily imagery of every field across the globe. What’s exciting about the work Zara is leading is that we are just at the beginning of unlocking the potential of...

Learn about a digital hub for crop scouting, field observations, and treatment decisions in our podcast with guest Liron Brish, the CEO of Farm Dog. Farm Dog provides digital pest and disease management solutions for growers, agronomists, and Extension Agents across 1.5 million acres. In addition to being Farm Dog’s CEO, Liron serves on the California Department of Agriculture grant review board,...

In today’s episode, we’ve got a wide-ranging discussion recapping the great ideas explored at this year’s AgEmerge event including Dr. Dwayne Beck’s recommended book list. We’ll talk about Monte’s travels to the Grassfed conference and what he learned from Dr. Fred Provenza, a speaker at the conference. Also, what does it look like to implement a stacked enterprise model? Monte will discuss some i...

Walter Lynn combines his wealth of experience as a CPA coupled with his desire to further soil health initiatives into a great portfolio of knowledge. He’ll tell you how he learned that you can’t have economic and financial rewards without biological capital and that’s just one of the great nuggets of info we’ll tap into today. He's worked with clients across the states and serves as the current c...

We’re mixing it up a little today on the AgEmerge Podcast.  We’ve just gotten back from the AgEmerge event in Monterey, California and we’re pretty pumped up from all the learning and exchanging of ideas that went on.  The venue and the food were pretty great too!  This episode is a recording of our panel discussion we held while at the conference. Three of our panelists are growers from Californi...

Today on the AgEmerge podcast, Matt Foes joins us as we discuss the exciting work Matt’s doing on his own farm taking what he’s learned over the years and designing a systems approach to growing corn and soybeans as efficiently as possible. Matt is from north-central Illinois where he grew up on a corn and soybean farm. Matt has his bachelor's in chemistry and a master's in weed science and has co...

Dave Williams joins us today on the AgEmerge Podcast. Dave is the Chief Commercial Officer at CalCom Energy. His business is focused on working on the economic side of energy with its customers. Dave talks about understanding energy consumption and where the opportunities are to make money in those energy markets. Dave works on the Executive Team to implement CalCom’s strategic vision of being a l...

Wondering what all the AgEmerge excitement is about? Monte and Kim discuss all things AgEmerge like all the emerging trends in agriculture, not to mention the great lineup of speakers including Dwayne Beck, Keith Berns, and Zach Bush. You won't want to miss this discussion and you won't want to miss AgEmerge 2020 in Monterey, California. Join us January 7th - 9th in beautiful Monterey for a confer...

Mallory Krieger, Director at Terra Elossa, joins Kim as they discuss how her background in conventional agriculture and other life experiences led to the work she's doing today. Mallory's work is transforming Midwestern agriculture using a holistic and integrated approach. Mallory uses social science-based strategies to develop systems that address the environmental problems that have resulted fro...

Today Zach Bush, MD joins Monte and Kim on this episode of the AgEmerge Podcast. Dr. Zach is a triple board-certified physician and internationally-recognized educator on the intersection of the microbiome with human health/disease and our food production systems. His work is giving new insights into root-cause solutions in the sectors of farming, big pharma, and Western Medicine at large. Zach’s...

You’ve got data? Agriculture is full of data, collected from every tractor, planter, combine, plant, you name it, there’s no lack of data. On this episode, Monte and Kim talk about how blockchain can harness the masses of data in agriculture to wrangle everything collected into a useful system. Then, Kim is joined with Erin Vincent, she’s a software developer, but more than that, she’s a proponent...