Podcast Short: BioCoat Gold and the Future of Risk-Sharing in Ag
Regenerative Agriculture Podcast
AEA Marketing
4.7 • 548 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
In this Podcast Short, John discusses how shifting from extractive to collaborative business models can help farmers reclaim their economic destiny. This episode also explores:
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Historical farm economics, noting that while it was once common to pay for a farm in under ten years,
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How "regenerative relationships" and shared risk-taking between vendors and growers are essential to restoring farm profitability.
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A new performance warranty for BioCoat Gold is introduced as a way to remove financial risk for growers
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Inviting large-scale operators to engage in broader risk-sharing partnerships that extend beyond single products to entire agricultural systems.
Additional Resources
To learn more about AEA's new BioCoat Gold warrant, please visit: https://advancingecoag.com/land/warranty-biocoat-gold/
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.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, friends. This is John. Welcome back to the Region of Agriculture podcast. Today, I want to have a |
| 0:05.2 | conversation about farm economics and relationships between farmers and vendors and some of the |
| 0:13.1 | work that we are doing with BioCoat Gold to address some of these challenges. We live in |
| 0:18.4 | interesting times. We see that particularly here in North America, |
| 0:23.1 | but also around the world. Many growers, depending on the crops they're growing in the situation |
| 0:27.4 | they're in. Many growers are in a very difficult economic context. And I've always been |
| 0:36.2 | fascinated by trying to understand how did we get to this spot? |
| 0:40.7 | How did we arrive at this place? |
| 0:43.0 | And there are many different contributing factors. |
| 0:44.9 | I've been speaking about this topic quite a bit this winter at conferences when I've |
| 0:49.8 | been asked to talk about farm economics conversation with myself and Michael McNeil. |
| 0:53.8 | Actually, I think we |
| 0:54.4 | might have ended up sharing it here on the podcast. I try to understand how did we get to where we are? |
| 1:00.2 | And there are many different contributing factors. There's a combination of reasons for why we've |
| 1:07.4 | arrived at this spot of farmers being so heavily extracted from. |
| 1:13.9 | And to some degree, not being in control of their own destiny, |
| 1:19.0 | as long as they choose to continue with the status quo of production practices |
| 1:24.3 | and crops that are common. |
| 1:27.6 | And I found it interesting when I'm going, |
| 1:30.1 | going back in history, |
| 1:31.7 | you look at some of the historical data. |
| 1:34.2 | And just this is some very broad brushstrokes because there's lots of |
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