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Hey everyone, I'm Mitchell Hora, a farmer from Iowa.

And I'm Zach Johnson, a farmer in Minnesota, and this is the fieldwork podcast for farmers by farmers.

This is the show where we talk about what's working and what is not working when it comes to sustainable agriculture.

Today we're going to talk about kind of a hot topic really.

Talk about the differences between organic and regenerative agriculture.

So organic has been around for a long time.

You probably know to be certified organic, you can't use genetically modified seed.

You can only use certain approved pesticides.

And you're probably trying to manage weeds and insects by a more physical or biological manner

rather than using some of the chemistry used in broader scale agriculture today.

There's a lot of regulation around it and a lot of investment in those supply chains.

And of course, farmers are getting paid a premium for those crops.

Yeah, and when it comes to regenerative, regenerative is maybe a newer concept that really

is looking deeper at soil health and things like organic carbon, water management.

It really takes a more holistic look at farming as it relates to the broader environment.

You know, unlike organic, it's almost more of a philosophy than a prescribed set of practices.

Yeah, and there's definitely some overlap between the two, and there's actually a regenerative

organic standard, but organic is much more of a known, you know, known system in the consumer's mind.

But today on the show, we're going to look out whether food grown regeneratively

could ever compete with organics in the supply chain and with the consumer.

Well, luckily, to get into this conversation deeper, Mitchell, we have two experts joining us today.

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