Episode #82: Dr. Erin Silva
Regenerative Agriculture Podcast
AEA Marketing
4.7 • 546 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Erin Silva is an Associate Professor and State Extension Specialist in Organic and Sustainable Cropping Systems in the Department of Plant Pathology as well as the Director for the Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at UW-Madison.
After completing a Ph.D. in Horticulture at Washington State University, Dr. Silva obtained a faculty position at New Mexico State University. During her tenure at NMSU, Dr. Silva taught courses on organic vegetable production, including an experiential learning course integrating the campus working student organic Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm. Dr. Silva initiated several organic research projects at NMSU, including work on a cover crop-based reduced tillage approach for organic vegetable crops and breeding vegetables for organic production systems.
These research themes continued as Dr. Silva moved into the first organically focused research position at the UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences in 2006. Through her work at UW-Madison, she has developed an internationally recognized program that improves the management of organic production systems and increases the profitability and sustainability for organic producers and rural communities.
In this episode, Dr. Silva and John discuss the following:
To find out more information about Erin's research, please visit https://uworganic.wisc.edu/ograin/. OGRAIN, The Organic Grain Resource and Information Network, exists to provide farmers access to research and to form a community of organic grain producers.
About John Kempf
John Kempf is the founder of Advancing Eco Agriculture, a plant nutrition and biostimulants consulting company. A top expert in the field of 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 are growing that supply.
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, this is John and this is the Regenerative Agriculture podcast, |
| 0:04.0 | where we talk about agronomic science and cultural management practices |
| 0:08.0 | that have the capacity to regenerate soil health and plant health |
| 0:12.0 | and livestock health and ultimately, of course, public health. |
| 0:15.0 | And in order for us to sustain that, |
| 0:19.0 | this whole ecosystem of constantly improving, or we could say constantly regenerating health and quality of life for all beings, |
| 0:28.6 | that also means we need to regenerate ecosystems and landscapes. |
| 0:31.8 | And it means we need to have a sustainable monetary system to be able to do that, including paying for and supporting |
| 0:41.1 | all of us farmers who are doing that. So anyway, there's lots that can tie into this topic, |
| 0:46.4 | and I'm broadening my intro longer than normal. It's about more than just the ecology and |
| 0:53.9 | the landscape. It's also the financial ecosystem that allows |
| 0:57.2 | all of that to function well, which hasn't allowed it to function quite so well up to this point, |
| 1:03.3 | but that might be a conversation for another day. I'm really excited to be back here and to be talking with all of you again. My guest for this |
| 1:13.6 | episode is Aaron Silva from the University of Wisconsin, who many of you may have heard of, |
| 1:20.6 | and if you haven't, then I'm very delighted to introduce you. Aaron has really been a |
| 1:26.6 | pioneer in bringing about the adoption of weed control |
| 1:32.3 | methods for organic systems using roller crimper and using cover crop rye, but also a lot more |
| 1:39.2 | than that. She's known for some of those things, but she's done much greater work than that. |
| 1:43.3 | So, Erin, for those of us who |
| 1:46.5 | are less familiar with your work, tell us a bit about your story, your background. What is it that |
| 1:51.2 | brought you here? How did you get to be doing this work that you've been doing for the last decade? |
| 1:55.3 | Yeah. First, thank you for having me on. It's been a bit of a challenge to find time to get together and chat, |
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