LIVE at ACRES 2018 with Ed Curry
Regenerative Agriculture Podcast
AEA Marketing
4.7 • 546 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2018
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
John Kempf and Ed Curry take the stage in Louisville, KY at the ACRES Conference 2018 — a hotbed for regenerative agriculture practitioners for the last 30 years — to record the Regenerative Agriculture Podcast's first ever LIVE show.
The Acres Conference isn't just another trade show or conference; this is a gathering of passionate and purposeful people working to share information and tools, and challenge the status quo in agriculture for the greater good. This is why we chose Acres 2018 for our first ever Podcast LIVE and why John and Ed make such a great pair to co-create this inaugural episode at this event.
Ed is an old-school breeder and grower with a new-school mentality. More than 90% of the green chiles grown in the US and Mexico are from Ed's breeding program. He is now the only breeder of his kind in the world.
Even if you don't grow chiles, you can certainly learn something from this discussion.
The show covers important topics such as:
- The art of visual phenotyping
- Soil health's impact on genetics
- Increase in yield by maximizing genetic potential over time
- Visually measuring the yield and quality of a chile crop within 30 days of planting
- The relationship between early vigor and crop yield
- How Ed's management practices have brought steady decreases in Phytophthora and Xanthomonas bacterial spot
- Ed's prediction for the coming capsaicin revolution and its many positive benefits
One of the most powerful things Ed says is, "The soul of farming is the soil." We agree.
The finale of our first season, episode #30, represents a huge milestone and our first ever Podcast LIVE. A huge THANK YOU is in order to all our amazing listeners around the world in the regenerative ag community who have supported this show and helped to make it such a success.
We hope you have a lovely holiday and we look forward to sharing the second season of the Regenerative Agriculture Podcast with you in the new year.
Thank you,
The Regenerative Agriculture Podcast Team
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Credits
This episode was Directed by Geoffrey Shively, Edited by Nathan Harman, Produced by Nathan Harman, Robin Kitowski, Jenna Sodano, and Anna Kempf.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi friends. This is John. I'm passionate about developing regenerative agriculture systems |
| 0:05.7 | that improve soil health, produce crops that are completely resistant to diseases and insects, |
| 0:11.2 | and produce food of such an exceptional quality that we can have a legitimate conversation about |
| 0:16.9 | 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. There are many incredible stories and a lot of knowledge that |
| 0:31.5 | have not been widely shared. I found that advancing eco-agriculture in 2006 to bring this knowledge together in a more coherent fashion |
| 0:39.3 | and incorporate it into products and growing systems that growers can easily put into practice. |
| 0:44.3 | It's my personal mission to have these regenerative agriculture systems become the mainstream globally, |
| 0:50.3 | the status quo against which all other growing systems are compared. To achieve this goal, |
| 0:55.5 | I want to share the knowledge that we have learned in the last decade and make it available to |
| 0:59.1 | everyone. These concepts and principles about regenerative systems can be applied anywhere, |
| 1:05.0 | and when they're properly applied, they will increase farm profitability and resilience to climate |
| 1:10.4 | stress. |
| 1:11.3 | If you have any questions, suggestions, comments, or topics of ideas that you would like for me to |
| 1:16.5 | discuss, please connect on social media or email me, John at regenerative agriculturepodcast.com. |
| 1:23.6 | Be sure to sign up for our email list at regenerative agriculture podcast.com. |
| 1:28.2 | Hope you enjoy and thank you for listening. |
| 1:35.9 | Hi everyone. Welcome to the regenerative agriculture podcast live. |
| 1:40.4 | Today is a special day. It's our first podcast live and I want to thank everyone for being |
| 1:44.8 | here and being part of the live audience. We started the podcast in April and we've been |
| 1:50.6 | fortunate to have amazing guests on surfacing actionable information that growers can use |
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