Podcast Extra: Rooted in Organic Podcast - What AI in Ag Can Look Like with John Kempf
Regenerative Agriculture Podcast
AEA Marketing
4.7 • 548 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2025
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
In this Podcast Extra, John Kempf joins the Rooted in Organic Podcast to discuss AI and agriculture.
The Rooted in Organic Podcast is dedicated to promoting organic living and sustainable agriculture. Through their podcast, they discuss time-honored techniques, like Amish farming, and explore modern solutions, like regenerative agriculture. With each conversation, they aim to empower their audience to take action toward a more eco-friendly and healthier food system.
In this episode of the Rooted in Organic Podcast, they discuss the development of a AEA's new AI tool called FieldLark. They also discuss how technology in ag can help or hurt, and where the idea for FieldLark started and some examples of where it has helped farmers fin- tune the questions they're looking to answer.
Additional Resources
To listen to more episodes of the Rooted in Organic Podcast, please visit: https://rootedinorganic.com/
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 | You're listening to Ruta Dinerorganic Podcast. I'm Mike Klein and along with Brian Wood. Today, we have a |
| 0:05.9 | returning guest. He's been on a couple times before, one of the early episodes. John Kempf, who is the |
| 0:12.1 | founder of AEA, advancing eco-agriculture, and is very involved in the regenerative ag movement. |
| 0:19.8 | And he has some exciting new things we want to talk about today. |
| 0:23.2 | So, John, thanks so much for joining us again. |
| 0:26.9 | Yeah, thanks, Mike, and thanks, Brian, for having me back on. |
| 0:29.5 | I've always enjoyed our conversations. |
| 0:32.3 | So, yeah, John, usually we start these with a good introduction, and that usually takes us down wherever we wind up. |
| 0:41.3 | But since you're a returning guest, I think, you know, folks should be aware of who you are. |
| 0:47.3 | And if not, I mean, you can certainly give a quick introduction, but I think it would be most interesting to just talk about what |
| 0:56.4 | it is that some of your latest projects you've been working on and how that's advancing |
| 1:01.8 | agriculture, what your goals are behind them. |
| 1:07.1 | Yeah, thanks, Brian. |
| 1:08.1 | There's, you know, the world of agriculture, and particularly this world that's now being called regenerative agriculture or biological agriculture, whatever you want to call it, has changed so much in the 20 years since I've been involved. |
| 1:23.3 | And even just in the last half a dozen years, there has been this upswelling of accessible information where now there are dozens of YouTube channels. |
| 1:36.5 | There's all the information out there. |
| 1:39.1 | And you know, this method of farming differently of a different type of |
| 1:46.2 | agronomy that seeks to enhance soil health and enhance ecosystem health |
| 1:50.0 | generally tends to be much more somewhat more management intensive sometimes |
| 1:56.0 | and certainly more knowledge intensive more information intensive it's like |
| 2:00.8 | there there's a need to know more and to constantly be asking different questions and be asking better questions. |
| 2:07.4 | And while it's true that we live in an information age, we have access to information in ways that we've never had before. |
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