Intercropping and Regenerative Soil Management with Derek Axten
Regenerative Agriculture Podcast
AEA Marketing
4.7 • 546 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast interview, host John Kempf and Canadian farmer Derek Axten discuss Derek's path to profitable farming practices. This journey started in 2007 when Derek made a trip to Dakota Lakes Research Farm where he witnessed soil health and water infiltration levels beyond which he knew were possible. In subsequent trips to Dakota Lakes and visits to Gabe Brown's ranch, Derek learned soil and crop management principles which he's adapted to his own farm. In this episode, learn about the methods and systems Derek has applied and how they've changed the trajectory of his farm from soil health and economic perspectives.
Derek describes his system of inter-cropping and the management practices he employs to increase soil infiltration. He and John also discuss controlled traffic farming, Derek's liquid fertilizer regimen, and decreasing the use of applied nitrogen and other synthetic inputs.
Listen to learn how Derek approaches:
- Soil management tactics and results
- Water infiltration
- Intercropping with two or more crops
- Fertility applications and compost teas
- Tillage
- Controlled traffic farming
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Credits
This episode was recorded by John Kempf and Derek Axten and produced by Nathan Harman, Robin Kitowski, and Anna Kempf.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi friends. This is John. I'm passionate about developing regenerative agriculture systems that |
| 0:06.3 | improve soil health, produce crops that are completely resistant to diseases and insects, |
| 0:11.3 | and produce food of such an exceptional quality that we can have a legitimate conversation about |
| 0:17.0 | growing food as medicine. I've been fortunate to meet many people with incredible knowledge |
| 0:21.5 | and information about soil and plant systems. However, much of this knowledge and information |
| 0:26.0 | is scattered all over the place. I found that advancing eco-agriculture in 2006 to bring this |
| 0:31.9 | knowledge together in a more coherent fashion and incorporate it into products and growing |
| 0:37.1 | systems that growers can |
| 0:38.3 | easily put into practice. It's my personal mission to have these regenerative agriculture systems |
| 0:43.6 | become the mainstream globally, the status quo against which all other growing systems are compared. |
| 0:49.6 | To achieve this goal, I want to share the knowledge that we have learned in the last decade |
| 0:53.0 | and make it available to everyone. If you have any questions, suggestions, comments, or topics that you would |
| 0:59.4 | like for me to discuss, please connect on social media or email me, John at regenerative |
| 1:05.4 | agriculture podcast.com. Be sure to sign up for our email list at regenerative agriculture podcast.com. |
| 1:11.8 | Hope you enjoy and thank you for listening. |
| 1:15.1 | Hi, friends. |
| 1:16.5 | Welcome back to the regenerative agriculture podcast. |
| 1:18.6 | This is John Kemp once more. |
| 1:20.4 | And I'm very pleased to be able to have a conversation with Derek Axton from Canada today. |
| 1:26.8 | This is going to be a bit of a different conversation than you may |
| 1:30.2 | have heard in the past. And the distinct difference for me, at least, is that Derek and I haven't |
| 1:35.7 | known each other for a long time. But I've certainly interviewed other people that I haven't |
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