The Carbon Capture Business with Jerry Hatfield
Regenerative Agriculture Podcast
AEA Marketing
4.7 • 548 Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Regenerative Agriculture Podcast, John interviews Dr. Jerry Hatfield, Ph.D., a plant physiologist who runs the USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment in Ames, Iowa. Jerry has done extensive research on the interactions between soils, plants, and the environment. Jerry describes his findings from some of these tests which track interactions among different types of cover crops with different soil and plant variables. Jerry also studies agriculture as a molecular geneticist, testing which genes are activated in plants during drought versus flood conditions and other environmental factors.
John and Jerry also discuss the differences between the terms sustainable agriculture and regenerative agriculture, and answer the questions: What are the steps to regenerative agriculture? What is the return on this type of system?
To quote Jerry, "If you go down this road of improving your soil, you increase your profitability, you increase your yield stability, and you'll sleep better at night."
In this episode John and Jerry cover:
- The carbon balance in terms of improving the soil-plant-health continuum
- The roadmap provided by regenerative agriculture for increased profitability
- The needs of biology and how to fuel those needs to provide climate resilience
Listen to learn how the carbon cycle can shift and change when growers begin to manage soils and crops differently with regenerative management, rather than with present mainstream management. Jerry says, "Agriculture is in the carbon capture business," and this episode explains why, drilling into the role of carbon in regenerative agriculture.
The Community Impact Partner for this episode is the Regenerative Organic Alliance, the developer of the Regenerative Organic Certification, a holistic agriculture certification encompassing pasture-based animal welfare, fairness for farmers and workers, and robust requirements for soil health and land management. Brands are already seeking to bring ROC-certified products into their supply chain. You are invited to research and join the ROC program. The first step is to download the ROC Participant Handbook on their website.
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Credits
This episode was recorded by John Kempf and Jerry Hatfield, and produced by Nathan Harman, Robin Kitowski, and Anna Kempf.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi friends. This is John. I'm passionate about developing regenerative agriculture systems that |
| 0:06.3 | improve soil health, produce crops that are completely resistant to diseases and insects, |
| 0:11.2 | and produce food of such an exceptional quality that we can have a legitimate conversation about |
| 0:17.0 | growing food as medicine. I've been fortunate to meet many people with incredible knowledge |
| 0:21.5 | and information about soil and plant systems. However, much of this knowledge and information |
| 0:26.0 | is scattered all over the place. There are many incredible stories and a lot of knowledge that |
| 0:31.5 | have not been widely shared. I found that advancing eco-agriculture in 2006 to bring this knowledge together in a more coherent fashion |
| 0:39.5 | and incorporate it into products and growing systems that growers can easily put into practice. |
| 0:45.1 | It's my personal mission to have these regenerative agriculture systems become the mainstream globally, |
| 0:51.0 | the status quo against which all other growing systems are compared. To achieve this |
| 0:55.3 | goal, I want to share the knowledge that we have learned in the last decade and make it available |
| 0:59.0 | to everyone. These concepts and principles about regenerative systems can be applied anywhere, |
| 1:05.5 | and when they're properly applied, they will increase farm profitability and resilience to climate |
| 1:10.5 | stress. |
| 1:11.4 | If you have any questions, suggestions, comments, or topics of ideas that you would like |
| 1:16.0 | for me to discuss, please connect on social media or email me, John at regenerative agriculture |
| 1:22.3 | podcast.com. Be sure to sign up for our email list at regenerative agriculture podcast.com. |
| 1:28.2 | Hope you enjoy and thank you for listening. |
| 1:31.5 | Because AEA produces this show, that means that we do not have to sell ads and we're not beholden to advertisers. |
| 1:38.3 | This gives me the freedom to host anyone that brings value to the community and to gift free promotional space to organizations |
| 1:45.4 | that help impact the regenerative agriculture movement. You'll notice that this season we're |
| 1:51.3 | airing short messages from organizations that are doing great work in the sphere of regenerative |
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