Episode 143: Growing Prescription-Quality Wheat with Bob Quinn

Regenerative Agriculture Podcast

AEA Marketing

Earth Sciences, Science, Natural Sciences

4.7 • 546 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Bob Quinn is an organic farmer and researcher with a Ph.D. in plant biochemistry. Bob introduced and trademarked Kamut, an ancient wheat variety with anti-inflammatory properties. His research highlights its higher nutrient density and benefits for those with wheat sensitivities.

Bob grew up on a wheat farm in Montana, and transitioned to organic farming in the 1980s. After selling his businesses, he founded the Quinn Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to regenerative organic research and food as medicine. His work focuses on soil health, nutrient density, and the connection between food and human health.

In this episode, John and Bob discuss:

How nutrient-dense food can promote health and prevent disease
How Kamut wheat has been shown to reduce inflammation compared to modern wheat
The importance of revitalizing soil microbiomes to improve gut health
Why strengthening regional food systems enhances food security and resilience
The industrial food processing of vegetable oils, and their impact on health and nutrition

Additional Resources
To learn more about Bob Quinn and the work of the Quinn Institute, please visit: https://quinninstitute.org/

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 where we have all kinds of fun
0:04.6	conversations about agronomy and plant nutrition and human health and the ways they intersect
0:10.0	in so many beautiful ways. Today, I've been having a wonderful visit here in person with Bob Quinn,
0:16.4	who's a good friend of mine from Montana. I've had Bob on here in the past. And over the last several
0:22.9	months, the conversation, actually really in the last six weeks, the conversation that has really
0:29.2	been surfacing for me in ways that it hasn't for almost a decade is the conversation around
0:34.9	nutrient density and growing medicinal quality food, growing
0:38.6	immunotherapy quality food. You know, Dan Kittridge and I got onto this train, if you will,
0:46.5	and probably almost 20 years ago at this point. And I became really inspired by the idea
0:53.2	when we were on our own farm growing up, it became really inspired by the idea when we were on our own farm growing up,
0:57.8	it became really inspired by the idea that we could grow plants that were so healthy
1:01.7	that we could regenerate soil health, we could grow crops that were resistant to diseases
1:05.8	and insects, and we could start having a legitimate conversation about food as medicine.
1:12.0	But I discovered to my dismay after some time that this was a conversation that many farmers,
1:17.5	they were interested in having the conversation.
1:19.7	They were inspired by it.
1:21.9	But for most growers, it wasn't enough to actually get them to do something different.
1:27.9	And that's beginning to change.
1:29.8	I've had more conversation in the last two months with growers who are actually measuring their
1:35.4	nutrient density and are marketing based on that and are being paid for that across a broad
1:40.4	cross section in beef and dairy and pork and nuts and the list goes on and on.
1:44.7	I've been quite inspired. So Bob, you're one of the people that of all those that I know.
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