Ecosystem Diversity Prevents Insect Pressure with Jonathan Lundgren
Regenerative Agriculture Podcast
AEA Marketing
4.7 • 546 Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2018
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Jonathan Lundgren is an agroecologist, Director of the ECDYSIS Foundation, and CEO of Blue Dasher Farm. He received his Ph.D. in Entomology from the University of Illinois in 2004 and was a professional pesticide evaluator with USDA-ARS for 11 years.
Jonathan's research and education programs focus on assessing the ecological risk of pest management strategies and developing long-term solutions for sustainable food systems. His ecological research focuses heavily on conserving healthy biological communities within agroecosystems by reducing disturbance and increasing biodiversity within cropland.
In this episode, Jonathan and I discuss
- How diversity in insect populations decreases pest problems
- Why the term "pesticide safety" is meaningless, and the ecological implications and risk assessment of pesticides
- How to develop agroecosystems that reduce the need for insect management products and other agrochemicals
- How to design a proactive pest management system
- Beekeeping, varroa mites, overwintering, and other interesting aspects of bees and honey production
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| 0:00.0 | The question that I always ask farmers that come up to visit is how often can you lose a crop and make more money than the neighbors do? |
| 0:10.7 | And the answer is every single time when you're farming regeneratively. |
| 0:15.7 | Hi, friends. I'm John Kemp hosting this podcast. I am passionate about developing regenerative agriculture |
| 0:22.7 | systems that improve soil health, produce crops that are completely resistant to diseases and |
| 0:27.9 | insects, and produce fruit of such an exceptional quality that we can have a legitimate |
| 0:32.7 | conversation about growing food as medicine. There are many people with incredible knowledge and information |
| 0:39.0 | about soil and plant systems and how to develop regenerative agriculture systems. However, |
| 0:44.8 | much of this knowledge and this information is scattered. It's found all over the place. Some of it |
| 0:49.4 | has been published in peer-reviewed publications, but there are many incredible stories and a lot of knowledge |
| 0:55.6 | that has not been published, and that hasn't been shared with many people. I started advancing |
| 1:00.6 | eco-agriculture in 2006 to bring this knowledge together in a more coherent fashion and |
| 1:07.6 | incorporated into products and growing systems that growers can easily put into practice. |
| 1:13.2 | It's my personal mission to have these regenerative agricultural systems become adopted globally |
| 1:17.7 | and become the mainstream, the status quo, against which all other growing systems are compared. |
| 1:23.9 | To help achieve this goal, I want to share the knowledge that we have learned in the last |
| 1:29.2 | decade and make it available to everyone. While we have developed products at AEA that embody |
| 1:34.5 | the principles of regenerative agriculture systems and make them easier for growers to apply, |
| 1:39.3 | this knowledge and these principles can be applied anywhere. And when they are applied properly, they will always increase farm profitability and resilience to climate stress. |
| 1:50.2 | If you have any questions, suggestions, comments, or ideas, topics that you would like for me to discuss, |
| 1:56.6 | please connect on LinkedIn or on Twitter, where my username is at Vision Builder 7, or you can also |
| 2:03.7 | email me at John at Johnkemph.com. I would very much like to hear from you and to hear your |
| 2:10.7 | feedback. Be sure to subscribe to this podcast, and thank you very much for listening. Enjoy the show. |
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