Podcast Extra: Ask Me Anything with John Kempf from February 13
Regenerative Agriculture Podcast
AEA Marketing
4.7 • 548 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Join us for an engaging webinar with John Kempf, renowned crop health consultant and founder of Advancing Eco Agriculture. In this Ask Me Anything format, growers had the opportunity to ask John their pressing questions about topics impacting their farm. Drawing from his extensive research and firsthand experience, John provided insights and practical solutions to help growers achieve healthier, more resilient crops.
In this episode, John and the audience discuss:
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How early-season sap analysis can help optimize fruit tree nutrition and quality
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How anion exchange capacity, selenium applications, and calcium can improve soil health
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Strategic use of nutrients like urea, magnesium sulfate, and trace minerals
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Intercropping, crop rotations, and soil microbiology
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Optimizing wheat protein, test weight, and soybean disease resistance increases productivity
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BioCoat Gold and SeedFlare and how they can improve seedling health and nutrient absorption
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Biological methods of controlling nematodes, slugs, and seedling diseases without harmful chemicals
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Evaluating weed control strategies minimizes soil microbiome disruption
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How farmer intuition and observation play a key role in successful regenerative practices.
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Synchronizing nutrient applications with plant growth
Additional Resources
To watch more John Kempf content on YouTube, please subscribe to AEA's channel: https://www.youtube.com/@AdvancingEcoAgriculture
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
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for being here. Thank you for asking all the good questions that you always do. |
| 0:07.2 | We also had some questions sent in advance, and I'm probably going to intersperser, or mix some of those in here as well. |
| 0:14.6 | But I see there's already a bunch of good questions coming through here. |
| 0:17.6 | So first questions here is from Matt Stevens. Hi Matt. Regarding pulling sap |
| 0:25.1 | sampling on apple trees, what's the earliest you would recommend getting sap samples? Would |
| 0:28.8 | you wait until you have enough leaves to do both old and new? Or do you see value in getting |
| 0:33.0 | samples as soon as the first couple of leaves have reached full size, even though you won't |
| 0:36.7 | have the new old difference. |
| 0:38.8 | Yes, Matt, this is an outstanding question. |
| 0:41.8 | We've even experimented, particularly with more so with cherry production, |
| 0:46.3 | I'll actually think with apples as well, |
| 0:48.3 | we've experimented just collecting buds and sending buds in |
| 0:52.3 | for samples for sap analysis and i think the way that i would |
| 1:00.6 | answer the question is that over time once you have a couple years of experience um with sap analysis |
| 1:07.7 | you you should be able to get your your year-year agronomy management to a point where you perhaps don't |
| 1:16.1 | need those very early samples because you kind of know what to expect, you know what the trend line |
| 1:22.0 | and the trajectory looks like, and you've already addressed some issues that showed up historically. |
| 1:27.7 | But particularly for the first couple years, or maybe a better way of saying it would be to say that |
| 1:31.9 | until you see the issues being resolved in those first couple of samples from the way you |
| 1:36.5 | manage the prior year, those early samples can be very valuable. And the reason they're so |
| 1:42.7 | valuable is because the nutritional status |
| 1:47.5 | of those early leaves also reflects what is happening in the fruit during the cell division |
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