Landowners, Lenders and More: How to Get Stakeholders on Board with Change
Field Work
Field Work
5.0 • 652 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Sometimes the hurdles to sustainable practices come from people right in a farmer’s network: family, landowners, neighbors, seed dealers, and lenders. Bryan and Lauren Biegler, farmers in Minnesota, join Zach and Mitchell to discuss how they fought back the image of being “hippie farmers” as they started strip tilling and planting cover crops. Mollie Aronowitz, a land manager at the People’s Company in Iowa, and Randy Dell from the Nature Conservancy also offer helpful insights into landlord/farmer dynamics around conservation.
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Collaboration is Key for Farmers and Landowners
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, Zach here, and I wanted to let you guys know that field work is brought to you in part by General Mills. |
| 0:08.6 | General Mills is partnering with farmers and suppliers to advance regenerative egg practices on a million acres of farmland by 2030. |
| 0:18.5 | They need a sound check on you. |
| 0:19.9 | Tell us what you had for breakfast. We just need to talk about it. I had a big check on you. Tell us what you have for breakfast. |
| 0:21.6 | We just need to talk. |
| 0:22.6 | I had a big fat cinnamon roll. |
| 0:24.6 | Non-GMO. |
| 0:26.6 | I didn't read any of that on there. |
| 0:28.6 | I hope so. |
| 0:29.6 | So I think it was a good safe GMOed cinnamon roll. |
| 0:33.6 | That's why it tasted so good. |
| 0:35.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:44.9 | I'm Zach Johnson. |
| 0:45.8 | I'm Mitchell Hora. |
| 0:47.5 | And this is the field work podcast. |
| 0:51.7 | We're back and we've got some guests here with us in the studio. |
| 0:56.8 | We're talking with Brian and Lauren Bigler. And so I don't screw it up, |
| 1:00.3 | I'll let them kind of introduce themselves and whatnot. And we'll kind of jump into it, |
| 1:03.9 | but basically just being able to open up conversation, you know, have some dialogue about what's going on on the farm. You know, this podcast is for other row crop farmers also just like |
| 1:09.0 | all, you know, we are. So if we can open up, you know, just some of that dialogue |
| 1:13.0 | on what you guys have seen, what you guys have learned, |
| 1:15.7 | both, you know, unveiling some of the good things |
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