Episode 120: Bridging Finance and Farming with Dan Miller
Regenerative Agriculture Podcast
AEA Marketing
4.7 • 548 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Dan Miller is the founder and CEO of Steward, a company dedicated to supporting regenerative farmers by providing access to capital. With a background in law and finance, Dan combines his expertise to create a unique financial platform that connects community investors with sustainable agricultural projects. His work at Steward is driven by a commitment to ethical and ecological principles, focusing on creating resilient financial networks that support the growth and success of small to medium-sized farms.
In this episode, Dan and John discuss:
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The necessity of strategic financial planning in farming operations
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Creating markets for diverse crops
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How farmers can benefit from integrating specialized team members
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How Steward facilitates access to capital for farmers by focusing on opportunities others overlook
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The inefficiencies of indirect funding from corporate and governmental sources
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Fostering a resilient financial system outside traditional banking models
Additional Resources
To learn more about Steward, please visit: https://gosteward.com/
About John Kempf
John Kempf is the founder of Advancing Eco Agriculture (AEA). 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.
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
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, friends, welcome back to the regenerative agriculture podcast. This is John, and today we're going to have a fun conversation that isn't agronomy-oriented. |
| 0:09.9 | So frequently here, we talk about the sciences and the cultural management practices that need to be brought to bear to regenerate ecosystems, to regenerate plant health, to regenerate our human health collectively as a society. |
| 0:25.6 | But in order for any of those to function, the foundational underpinnings are that we need to have strong financial health and economic health within our farming communities, |
| 0:34.6 | because that foundational piece is required in order to |
| 0:38.7 | regenerate the capacity for stewardship. |
| 0:41.5 | One of the companies that I've been observing with a great deal of interest in the agricultural |
| 0:49.9 | finance space is steward capital. |
| 0:52.3 | And today I have with me, Dan Miller, who founded that |
| 0:56.8 | organization, to tell us a bit about the pieces that they are working on and the impact that they |
| 1:03.6 | hope to have in agriculture. So, Dan, thank you for being here. Tell us a little bit about your |
| 1:08.7 | journey and background and what gave you the inspiration for |
| 1:12.5 | Steward Capital and what exactly is Stewart Capital. |
| 1:14.8 | Well, thanks for having me. |
| 1:16.7 | Always great to talk, John. |
| 1:18.5 | So Stewart is a platform to provide alternative financing to alternative agriculture. |
| 1:24.1 | So we provide credit and loans to farmers, food systems, infrastructure, anything |
| 1:28.1 | from production through to end product. And what's unique about our model is we raise the loan |
| 1:33.3 | capital online directly from a network of now over 3,000 funders, from individuals to family |
| 1:39.9 | offices. And so we have a values line network of funders that we aggregate the capital for and provide |
| 1:45.4 | as credit. And the backstory, it goes very far. It's kind of personal story, but also a family story. |
| 1:52.9 | And it feels like I have the right still set to end up here, but I would have never thought I would |
| 1:57.2 | have ended up here if I had looked forward. So my mother's family's |
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