Episode 136: Working With Unique Climate Conditions with Frederik Larsen
Regenerative Agriculture Podcast
AEA Marketing
4.7 • 548 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Frederik Larsen is a Danish agronomist who assists farmers in Denmark and Eastern Europe to transition toward no-till systems, cover cropping, and diverse crop rotations. Frederik also practices what he preaches on his family farm, using it as a testing ground for innovative practices like relay planting and companion planting.
His work focuses on maximizing sunlight capture, increasing biomass, and enhancing soil carbon cycling in Denmark's climate, characterized by short growing seasons and limited winter sunlight.
In this episode, John and Frederik discuss:
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Implementing relay planting for short growing seasons
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Using cover crops to improve nutrient availability for spring planting
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The benefits of applying nitrogen both early in the season and later via foliar feeding
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Innovative companion planting techniques
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Ecosystem benefits and the overall value of alfalfa forage
Additional Resources
To follow Frederik and his journey, please visit: https://x.com/fredvlarsen
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.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi friends, welcome to the Regenerative Agriculture Podcast. I have so much fun on this podcast, |
| 0:05.0 | having enjoyable conversations about topics that I'm passionate about, that I care deeply about. |
| 0:10.0 | And today I'm really been looking forward to a conversation with a remarkable individual for some time. |
| 0:16.0 | Frederick Larson from Denmark. Frederick, thank you for being here. Thank you for being willing to share |
| 0:20.0 | some of the things that you've been working on that you've been talking about. You know, here in the States, we have |
| 0:25.1 | particularly innovative farmer that lots of people enjoy observing and interacting and kind of |
| 0:30.0 | scratching their heads about being Jason Malk from Indiana and all of his work with companion planting |
| 0:36.0 | and really planting and some of the unconventional ideas |
| 0:39.9 | that he comes up with with his imaginative brain. In some ways, I think of you as being the |
| 0:44.2 | European version of Jason Malk, but perhaps with a more scientific approach or a more grounded |
| 0:52.5 | approach or grounded perspective. But anyway, I don't want to give all |
| 0:56.4 | the good stuff away. Tell us a little bit about your background, your story and the scope of the |
| 1:00.5 | work that you're working on. Well, thank you very much, John, and thank you for having me here on |
| 1:05.1 | the podcast. I'm a regular listener to your podcast and been looking much forward to our |
| 1:09.7 | conversation today. |
| 1:11.4 | Well, so my background is a agronomist. |
| 1:15.4 | I have a master's of science degree, so you know all the fundamental entry to our ag business |
| 1:20.9 | is there. |
| 1:21.9 | I work as a full-time agronomist helping my farmers in Denmark and abroad, mainly in Eastern |
| 1:26.6 | Europe, to transition their farming systems to some of these, you could say, traditional conservation act approaches of less tillets, cover crops, crop rotations. |
| 1:38.3 | And very fortunate that I have a family farm as well, which I can site the farm to the side. And the core principles is that |
| 1:47.0 | I want to develop the farming systems I preach about at our family farm. So doing some good old |
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