Podcast Extra: Ask Me Anything with John Kempf - April 14
Regenerative Agriculture Podcast
AEA Marketing
4.7 • 546 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
This Podcast Extra episode is from John's Ask Me Anything webinar from April 14. Drawing from his extensive research and firsthand experience, John will provide insights and practical solutions to help growers achieve healthier, more resilient crops.
In this discussion, the topics cover:
- Nutritional management with copper, nitrogen, potassium, and calcium prevents wheat and barley lodging better than PGRs.
- Soil aeration and oxygen flow enhance paramagnetism more effectively than paramagnetic rock powders.
- Side-dressing potassium, like potassium nitrate, benefits soil biology more than broadcasting potash.
- Adequate calcium and boron levels, plus soil aeration, reduce clubroot in brassicas.
- Compost, low soil carbon, and lack of humic substances cause high chloride in plant sap, mitigated by humicarb.
- Selenium may influence fatty acid profiles and yield in forages, but its role in oil crops is unclear.
- Balancing potassium and calcium with manganese and boron ensures optimal plant health.
- Microbial activity and preventing soil drying enhance potassium availability in clay soils.
- Micropack offers higher performance than seaweed or fish-based foliar sprays for tropical fruit groves.
- Deeper earthworm presence reflects better soil aeration and structure, not necessarily overall soil health.
- Seed Flare may penetrate sunflower shells but is less effective on stone fruit, needing experimentation.
- BioCoat Gold is best as a seed treatment but can be applied in-furrow.
About John Kempf
John Kempf is the founder of Advancing Eco Agriculture (AEA). A top expert in 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 grow it.
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.
Support For This Show & Helping You Grow
Since 2006, AEA has been on a mission to help growers become more resilient, efficient, and profitable with regenerative agriculture.
AEA works directly with growers to apply its unique line of liquid mineral crop nutrition products and biological inoculants. Informed by cutting-edge plant and soil data-gathering techniques, AEA's science-based programs empower farm operations to meet the crop quality markers that matter the most.
AEA has created real and lasting change on millions of acres with its products and data-driven services by working hand-in-hand with growers to produce healthier soil, stronger crops, and higher profits.
Beyond working on the ground with growers, AEA leads in regenerative agriculture media and education, producing and distributing the popular and highly-regarded Regenerative Agriculture Podcast, inspiring webinars, and other educational content that serve as go-to resources for growers worldwide.
Learn more about AEA's regenerative programs and products: https://www.advancingecoag.com
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Spring has sprung. Obviously, we're at different places in different parts of the Northern Hemisphere, |
| 0:06.0 | but I know that growers have been planting for the last couple of weeks already further south, |
| 0:11.0 | southern part of the United States and so forth, and there's a lot of planting happening this week, |
| 0:17.0 | and a lot more will be happening over the course the next couple of weeks. |
| 0:20.0 | So it's the time for go season, lots of activity, lots of things happening fast. |
| 0:24.4 | And for Ask Me Anything Today, we're just going to dive right into it and in our usual fashion, |
| 0:30.0 | just go hardcore as rapidly as we can. |
| 0:32.0 | We have a whole bunch of questions already. |
| 0:34.6 | Several questions were sent in advance, and I'm going to dive into those and we're just |
| 0:40.3 | going to have a good time send me any questions and if there's anything that I missed that is |
| 0:43.8 | important for us to connect on please follow up with our team here at AEA as well so all right |
| 0:51.5 | first questions from Jim Alizando. Hi, Jim. Jim was my most recent podcast guest where we talked about nutrition, grazing management, sugar flow, and forages, and so forth. Jim says you mentioned a solution to solve the problem of tall fescue toxicity, and specifically we talked about endophyte |
| 1:12.7 | toxicity in cattle. Do you have a product we can use to remedy this, or is it something that |
| 1:18.4 | requires management? So, Jim, we have a product that is in development. It is not currently |
| 1:25.7 | registered and it's not available for sale yet, |
| 1:29.1 | but it will be available at some point in the future. And as I think as all of you know, |
| 1:34.3 | we are quite transparent and straightforward about when ingredients serve similar purposes. For |
| 1:42.2 | example, we don't have a liquid magnesium product, a rebound |
| 1:46.6 | magnesium, for example, because why would we? Because magnesium sulfate is effective and readily |
| 1:51.9 | available. And so in this case, in the case of this product for endophyte toxicity in |
| 1:59.1 | tall fescue in summer and dry conditions. |
| 2:04.4 | This isn't something that I can easily tell people |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from AEA Marketing, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of AEA Marketing and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.