Episode 100: Hear from the Host - James Johnson Interviews John Kempf

Regenerative Agriculture Podcast

AEA Marketing

Earth Sciences, Science, Natural Sciences

4.7 • 546 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2024

⏱️ 92 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

It's the 100th episode of the Regenerative Agriculture Podcast! In this special episode, AEA grower James Johnson interviews the voice behind the podcast, John Kempf.

James Johnson is a fourth-generation farmer in New Mexico and the Vice President of Carzalia Valley Produce. When James finally took over the family farm in the early 2000s, the outlook of his operation seemed grim. After many years of trial and error with various farming practices, James met the Advancing Eco Agriculture team and discovered the many benefits of regenerative agriculture.

John Kempf is the founder of Advancing Eco Agriculture. A top expert in biological and regenerative farming, John founded AEA in 2006 to help fellow farmers by providing the education, tools, and strategies that will have a global effect on the food supply and those who grow it.

Through intense study and the knowledge gleaned from many industry leaders, John is building a comprehensive systems-based approach to plant nutrition – a system solidly based on the sciences of plant physiology, mineral nutrition, and soil microbiology.

In this episode, James and John discuss:

The importance of nutritional and microbiome integrity for plant immunity
How John started and built Advancing Eco Agriculture
The importance of sap analysis to see product efficacy
How growers who work with AEA reduce inputs
John's development of the Plant Health Pyramid
Plant health vs soil health
The future of Advancing Eco Agriculture

Additional Resources
To learn more about the plant health pyramid developed by John Kempf, please visit: https://www.advancingecoag.com/plant-health-pyramid

To learn more about Advancing Eco Agriculture, please visit: https://www.advancingecoag.com/ or watch this webinar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cItpuQDX_M4

Support For This Show & Helping You Grow
Since 2006, AEA has been on a mission to help growers become more resilient, efficient, and profitable with regenerative agriculture.

AEA works directly with growers to apply its unique line of liquid mineral crop nutrition products and biological inoculants. Informed by cutting-edge plant and soil data-gathering techniques, AEA's science-based programs empower farm operations to meet the crop quality markers that matter the most.

AEA has created real and lasting change on millions of acres with its products and data-driven services by working hand-in-hand with growers to produce healthier soil, stronger crops, and higher profits.

Beyond working on the ground with growers, AEA leads in regenerative agriculture media and education, producing and distributing the popular and highly-regarded Regenerative Agriculture Podcast, inspiring webinars, and other educational content that serve as go-to resources for growers worldwide.

Learn more about AEA's regenerative programs and products: https://www.advancingecoag.com/

VIDEO: To learn more from John Kempf about regenerative agriculture, watch this conversation between John and three AEA grower partners about how regenerative agriculture is changing lives and conventional farming: https://youtu.be/n9U6GwbYPDk

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hi, friends, this is John. Welcome back to the Regenerative Agriculture podcast. Today, we're
0:05.6	flipping the script. I have a very good friend who's been here on the podcast before James Johnson,
0:13.4	who's a cotton grower, and, well, I shouldn't call him a cotton grower because he grows a number of other
0:17.7	crops in New Mexico. James shared some of his story when I had
0:23.3	him here, and he and I have developed a close friendship over the years. And this episode is our
0:29.4	100th episode of the podcast, and I owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to all of my listeners, because
0:36.5	even though, because of some family stuff,
0:39.9	I took a sabbatical from the podcast for about a year and we've come back now and we're
0:46.1	actually going to be increasing the frequency going forward. But in spite of, when you think
0:51.8	about it, this is, I've been doing this now for almost three years or maybe a bit longer than three years.
0:55.7	And this is only episode 100.
0:57.3	And yet, according to the statistics that we can see, we're one of the most popular regenerative agriculture podcast episode and one of the most popular podcasts in all of agriculture.
1:08.2	And so that's a big thank you to all of our listeners and a big
1:11.6	thank you to all the guests who've helped make that a reality. So for this episode,
1:17.4	episode 100, we're flipping things around rather than me interviewing someone else. James has
1:23.5	volunteered to be, or is asked to be here to interview me and get my perspectives on some of the things that, where we've come from, where we're going, and what we see for the future.
1:35.3	So thank you, James, for being here and asking to lead this. I'm looking forward to this discussion.
1:41.0	Thanks, John. Yeah, it's hard to believe that it was 25 episodes ago. I was a guest on your
1:46.0	podcast for episode 75. I think the idea for this podcast actually happened about a year,
1:52.9	a year and a half ago. I had a conversation with you about how I had listened to every one of your
1:58.5	podcasts, many of them multiple times, and I had actually
2:01.9	started listening to other podcasts where they interviewed you and how much I appreciated your story.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from AEA Marketing, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of AEA Marketing and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.