Podcast Extra: The Future of Agriculture Podcast - AI For Regenerative Agriculture With John Kempf
Regenerative Agriculture Podcast
AEA Marketing
4.7 • 548 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In this Podcast Extra episode, John Kempf joins The Future of Agriculture Podcast hosted by Tim Hammerich to discuss the intersection of cutting-edge technology and regenerative farming. As the founder and Chief Vision Officer of Advancing Eco Agriculture (AEA), John reflects on his journey from managing a struggling family farm in Ohio to becoming a leading crop health consultant. The conversation centers on the launch of FieldLark AI, an innovative regenerative agronomist tool, and John's personal project of creating a "digital clone" of his own agronomic expertise to streamline decision-making. Beyond technology and ethics, the duo dives into advanced nitrogen management strategies, offering technical insights for growers looking to optimize plant health.
Additional Resources
To listen to more episodes of the Future of Agriculture Podcast, please visit: https://futureofagriculture.com/
To learn more about FieldLark, please visit: https://advancingecoag.com/land/fieldlark/
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 | Regenerative agriculture is complicated. |
| 0:04.0 | Despite what some in the media want to tell you, |
| 0:07.0 | it's not just a matter of cutting out chemicals and tillage and living happily ever after. |
| 0:12.0 | To really make things work requires decisions made with complex biological interactions in mind. |
| 0:19.0 | Nobody that I'm aware of has more experience or more data |
| 0:23.3 | on regenerative agronomy than John Kempf. He's now leveraged all of that into a new |
| 0:28.6 | artificial intelligence regenerative agronomist called Fieldlark AI. What technology can do and what |
| 0:34.9 | it should be doing in my, is guiding humans and amplifying |
| 0:39.8 | their strengths. If their strengths are intuition and observation, then there should be scouting |
| 0:47.8 | apps that guide the farmer or the crop scout or the agronomist to ask better questions and |
| 0:53.7 | to be more observant. |
| 0:55.1 | John is the founder of advancing eco-agriculture, and he returns to the show today |
| 0:59.6 | to talk about why he believes this field-lark AI tool is an important step toward expanding |
| 1:05.0 | regenerative agriculture. |
| 1:06.8 | We rely and use sap analysis very intensely. |
| 1:10.7 | It used to be this consumed tremendous amounts of time and energy and mental bandwidth. |
| 1:15.1 | And now we've shifted where the recommendations are no longer human generated. |
| 1:19.5 | They are now human reviewed. |
| 1:21.6 | John Kemp returns on today's Future of Agriculture Podcast. |
| 1:27.8 | Hello, fellow ag nerd. |
| 1:29.3 | Thank you so much for joining me for another episode of the future of agriculture. |
| 1:32.6 | My name is Tim Hammerich, and every week you and I get to hear from the farmers, founders, |
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