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🗓️ 24 February 2021
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Farmers Zach Johnson and Mitchell Hora are back with more honest and authentic conversations about the ups and the downs of sustainable agriculture. They'll explore new sustainability standards for crops like cotton and the outlook for conservation under the Biden administration. This season, Zach and Mitchell also travel to Mitchell's home county in southeast Iowa for a special miniseries on how generations of farmers there built a deep conservation culture. The new season launches March 3, 2021.
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0:00.0 | Zach Johnson here. |
0:09.8 | I'm Mitchell Hora, and this is field work. |
0:12.2 | We are a podcast for farmers by farmers, and we've got a ton of great episodes heading |
0:16.8 | your way in our new season. |
0:18.7 | Zach, the listeners better prepared to have their minds blown. |
0:22.6 | Absolutely. |
0:23.5 | We're covering so many new topics. |
0:25.4 | We've got some great guests lined up to talk about how to finance changes to your operation. |
0:30.1 | You can't fix a broken food system with a broken financial system, right? |
0:34.0 | We'll take a look at incentives for sustainable ag and the outlook under the Biden administration. |
0:39.6 | If I were to pick one thing that probably garners the most monitoring, it's going to be the carbon |
0:43.7 | markets and see if one actually is established that is going to be successful here in the U.S. |
0:49.0 | Ever heard of the Cotton Sustainability Protocol? Me neither, but we're going to dive into it. |
0:53.4 | You have increased profits here, |
0:56.0 | plus we have more access to markets. It's a win-win, so-called triple bottom line. So many great |
1:03.4 | interviews. One of my favorites is when we talk to a farmer from Arkansas who's networking internationally. |
1:10.4 | It's just arrogance for us to not take direction from countries like that. |
1:14.6 | I mean, you know, they're making 275, 280 bushels of rice per acre, |
1:19.6 | while we're making 180 to 200. |
1:22.6 | We've even got a special mini-series this season |
1:25.6 | looking at what it takes to build a culture of |
1:27.8 | sustainability, and we're going to focus on Washington County, Iowa, where Mitchell's from? |
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