Hi friends, welcome back to the regenerative agriculture podcast. This is John. Here, the intention and the purpose of this podcast is to talk about the agronomic science and the cultural management practices that have the capabilities of regenerating plant health, regenerating soil health, and ultimately regenerating public health

and animal health, because that is of course what it's really all about in addition to

regenerating ecosystems and so forth.

My guest for this episode is Jay Fierre, which I'm very delighted to have here.

Jay has had quite an interesting life in the regenerative agriculture space,

even before it had that term,

helping to lead the demonstrations at the Monocan Farm

and also having traveled around the world

and spoken with lots of different growers

and being able to bring all that information together. So thank you very much for being here I'm delighted to

have you thank you John I'm looking forward to it as well

you've had lots of rich experiences can you tell us a little bit about your

history and pathway and what what has brought you to this point and to the work that you're doing today?

I sometimes wonder all those things myself.

And sometimes I take a look back at it and, you know, I grew up on a farm that straddled the North Dakota, South Dakota State Line.

And so my dad's farm, which was my grandfather's, it was a homestead farm.

You know, we still had the homestead document signed by President Taft at that time. And so it goes

back a little ways, not far when we're talking geologically, but it goes back a little bit for our history.

And that gave me kind of an appreciation. My parents were products of the Great Depression

and the Dust Bowl, and they both were on farms as children. And so it's what we knew, it's what we did. It's what our relatives did. And

altogether, you know, it made up that ag community. And so we kind of grew up in a manner that you

helped others when we got together to complete some work that made everything go a little easier.

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