Podcast Extra: Field Talks with John Kempf and Cole Neese

Regenerative Agriculture Podcast

AEA Marketing

Earth Sciences, Science, Natural Sciences

4.7 • 546 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Join AEA founder John Kempf for Field Talks, a series of in-the-field conversations. This episode features Cole Neese, a corn and soybean grower in Indiana. Together, they explore real-time agronomic insights, crop progress, challenges, and success stories from the growing season.

In this episode, John and Cole Neese, a farmer from West Central Indiana, discuss:

Excessive Rainfall Challenges: Cole faced persistent wet conditions, saturating soils and delaying corn and soybean emergence.
Success with Accelerate on Soybeans: Applying Accelerate at R2 increased soybean pod counts by 50-80%, though drought later limited yields.
BioCoat Gold in Stressed Conditions: BioCoat Gold significantly improved corn performance in a late-planted, highly stressed field with low yields, likely due to enhanced mycorrhizae activity.
Improved Soybean Pod Integrity: Regenerative soybeans showed stronger pods, resisting shattering during harvest, likely due to enhanced cobalt and copper levels.

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	Hi, friends. Welcome, everyone. This is John Kemp. I'm here with a good friend and an AEA customer, Cole Neese. And we're just going to have a fun conversation around the work that's happening in the field, the experiences that Cole is having, some of the things that he's observed, and we're just going to have a fun conversation back and forth. So, Cole, tell us a little bit about what this season has been looking like.
0:22.4	How are your crops looking?
0:23.4	What's been going on?
0:24.6	It is very wet.
0:25.9	We have had a ridiculous amount of rain, and thanks for having a hard time getting out of the ground.
0:33.5	So what crops are you growing?
0:35.4	What are the crops?
0:37.3	So right now we're still pretty much just corn and soybeans. We're doing a little bit of cereal
0:42.9	rye and trying to get into some other crops. But for now, we're mainly just corn and soybeans.
0:50.9	And when you say corn and soybean, I've had a hard time getting out of the ground,
0:55.0	what has soil temperature's been like? What has moisture been like? I mean, it just keeps on
0:59.9	raining. I mean, the ground is as saturated as it as it can be without having water standing,
1:07.8	and sometimes it's had water standing. I mean, yeah, the soil temperatures
1:12.5	are low because we keep getting these cold rains and yeah, the seed just wants to stay.
1:17.2	How long has that been true? I mean, my goodness, it's June 6th.
1:22.2	Over two months. It's been rough. And for people who are catching up, where are you located geographically?
1:30.3	I'm in west central Indiana, kind of east of Terre Haute.
1:34.6	Okay.
1:35.8	Yeah, I'll be out there at the end of this week on that general area at Jason Malk's place.
1:40.3	Yep, I will be there as well.
1:42.0	All right.
1:42.5	I'll look forward to see you there.
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