Podcast Short #9: The Hope of Regenerative Agriculture with Kerry Hoffschneider
Regenerative Agriculture Podcast
AEA Marketing
4.7 • 548 Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Kerry Hoffschneider is an advocate for regenerating relationships in agriculture, who focuses on storytelling and hope within agriculture, emphasizing the human element and the need for deeper connections between farmers, the land, and their communities.
Kerry's work blends her deep-rooted personal connection to farming with her experiences as a writer and communicator. Growing up on a small Nebraska farm, she witnessed the struggles of family farming, particularly during the 1980s farm crisis. Kerry's career has ranged from reporting on agriculture to working in the corporate sector before co-founding the Graze Master Group with Del Ficke.
Additional Resources
To learn more about the Graze Master Group, please visit: www.grazemastergroup.com or go to their Facebook page, www.facebook.com/GrazeMasterGroup
To get your copy of Kerry's book "Hope Stories for the Heartland", please visit: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D264BYVQ
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 to the regenerative agriculture podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | It's in this conversation, and this podcast is the place where I want to talk about all of the aspects of regeneration, |
| 0:11.0 | regenerating soil and human health and plant health and all these important pieces. |
| 0:15.3 | One of the things I've been talking about over the last year or more, last several years, |
| 0:24.6 | is the fundamentals, one of the foundations of regeneration. And fundamentally, when you think about regeneration from a first principles perspective, it comes down almost singularly to regenerating relationships. |
| 0:35.6 | Whether that's regenerating relationships between soil, microbiome, and |
| 0:40.8 | plants, between livestock, and the landscape, between people, between farmers and vendors, between |
| 0:46.2 | farmers and their customers, at all levels, it's about regenerating relationships. For today, I have a very |
| 0:52.5 | special guest, Kerry Hofschneider, who has spent a lot of time thinking about and writing about the nature of relationships in the farming community. |
| 1:02.5 | So, Carrie, welcome. Thank you for being here. |
| 1:04.9 | I'd love for you to tell us a bit about your personal story, your background, and what led you to have this interest in thinking about and connecting with farmer's stories. |
| 1:15.9 | Thank you, John. |
| 1:17.3 | It's such an honor to be here and debut my journey of feeling that started on a York County farm in York County, Nebraska. I was born October 18th, |
| 1:30.3 | 1977, and it was right before the 1980s hit. Our farm was small. It was, and a lot of farms |
| 1:40.1 | were smaller then, and everyone has a different definition of that. But I'll just explain. |
| 1:45.9 | My dad was a school teacher. |
| 1:48.2 | He's taught business at a high school. |
| 1:50.5 | He drove about 20 minutes to, and then my mom happened to pass away when my sister and I were young. |
| 1:58.5 | I was four and my sister was eight years old. And mom worked some in town, |
| 2:03.2 | but mostly, you know, she was a mom on the farm. And so life was going pretty good until then, |
| 2:09.2 | as everyone who loves this someone at any time in their life understands that whole. But I |
| 2:16.5 | believe in grace and meaning and every pain we experience. So the |
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