Hi, friends. This is John, and this is the regenerative agriculture podcast, where we talk about the agronomic science and cultural management practices that regenerate plant health, soil health, and of course, ultimately public health, as well as ecosystem health.

My guest for this episode is Ken and Michael, who is a sixth generation farmer from California,

which is arguably one of the most intensive production regions of agricultural productions around the globe.

So Canon, thank you very much for joining us and for being willing to share your wisdom and insights.

I'd love to hear about your story and background.

What is the context of agricultural production and your farming operation in California

and the context of your interest in new innovations and looking at agriculture differently

for the future?

Yeah, thanks, John, and thanks for having me,

and I really appreciate all that you do educating and your podcast and all the information that

you've got out there is really helpful. And for furthering the discussion, I think you're doing

a great job, and it's much appreciated. For me, personally, like you said, six-generation

family farm here in the Central Valley

might be just a little different than kind of how some families have had a history, just in

terms of not all of us have grown up on the farm. It stemmed from my third great-grandfather

coming over in the 1850s and got into cattle raising and kind of a vertically integrated

cattle model that he really did amazingly well. It's a kind of, you know, American dream type story,

really, and was a real innovator. That being said, he was a very type A person who kind of kept

things close to the vest, didn't like to have people, even family,

bothering him about it. And so his offspring got the benefits of a successful business, but weren't

really kind of nurtured in the sense that people think of, maybe where, you know, you grow up on

the farm and you live the whole, you know, the kind of bucolic overalls and lifestyles. So again,

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