Meet Zach and Mitchell

Field Work

Society & Culture, Documentary

5.0 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, you’ll learn about our hosts and what drives their interest in sustainable agriculture. Zach Johnson, a farmer near Alexandria, Minnesota, also hosts the popular MN Millennial Farmer series on YouTube. Zach’s experiments with cover crops and conservation tillage have been a “disaster” so far. But he really wants to figure out how to make them work. Meanwhile, co-host Mitchell Hora has seen a lot of success with conservation practices on his southeastern Iowa farm and in his role as a soil health consultant. Their different geographies and perspectives set the table for lively conversations.

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0:00.0	Hey there, I'm Zach Johnson.
0:02.3	I'm Mitchell Hora.
0:03.5	This is our new podcast, Fieldwork.
0:10.2	We are both row crop farmers.
0:16.5	I farm about 2,400 acres with my dad in West Central Minnesota.
0:20.5	And I farm a little less than 800 acres of corn and soybeans with my dad in southeast Iowa.
0:27.3	Okay, so what is field work?
0:30.5	Over the next few months, we're going to go through.
0:32.3	We're going to do several episodes where we talk about sustainable egg practices.
0:36.7	We're going to bring in a lot of guests that have
0:38.6	experiences with that. We're going to talk about what the challenges have been and what kind of
0:43.0	headaches they've had over trying to implement some of these different practices and also what
0:48.1	some of the successes are and the reasons that we maybe should be looking at doing things a little
0:52.3	bit differently. Well, Zach, there wouldn't never be any headaches and trying to change things on your farm.
0:57.2	We've been doing it this way for so long.
0:58.9	Why?
0:59.7	We've got to have it all figured out by now.
1:01.4	It's all just sunshine and rainbows.
1:03.3	Yeah.
1:03.6	And even, you know, we're 500 miles apart, you know, with your place out there in Minnesota, me down southeast Iowa, but we really want to
1:12.6	be able to foster a good conversation here, open up communication. Zach and I are all over the place
1:18.0	online. I'm not quite as famous as Zach is, but you can check us out there and being able to have
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