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The Godfather of Soil Health

Field Work

Field Work

Documentary, Society & Culture

5652 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Mitchell makes a pilgrimage to Fairfield County, Ohio, to chat with farmer Dave Brandt. Known as "The Godfather of Soil Health," Brandt began experimenting with no-till and cover crops in 1971. "My goal is to show people throughout the United States how they can make more money and not spend so much to get a crop produced," Brandt says.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, Mitchell here.

0:01.6

Before we start the show, a huge thank you to the Walton Family Foundation.

0:05.5

Thanks for the continued support this season.

0:11.3

We are here with the Godfather of Soul Health, the Obi-Wan Kenobi of Soul Health, as you've been called, Dave Brandt.

0:19.2

And if you're a listener of the Fieldberg podcast and you don't know who Dave Brandt is,

0:23.0

I mean, I'm just disappointed, but you're going to find out who Dave Brandt is here today.

0:26.9

And that's my first question, Dave.

0:28.1

Who the heck are you?

0:29.4

Where are we at here today?

0:30.8

And I appreciate you letting us come out.

0:32.6

We're doing this from within the cleaning bar in here today.

0:35.6

So we got amazing acoustics. It's going to sound great.

0:39.0

But Dave, thanks for having us. Explain who you are and where we're at. Well, I'm Dave Brandt from

0:43.4

Fairfield County, Ohio. Have been no-tilling and working with cover crops since 1971 and still doing

0:50.5

it. Learning every year different things and having lots of fun. My goal was to show

0:55.9

people throughout the United States how they could be, I hate to call it sustainable, but to make

1:04.0

more money and not spend so much to get a crop produced and have enjoyed all the new people I've met over the years and been called

1:13.8

everything from that Mitch said, even worse than that to some cases, you know, but have really

1:21.6

enjoyed it. And I guess the fun thing for me, since I'm almost 79 years old, that now I'm seeing my children, what I call them,

1:31.6

and my grandchildren talking about Regenity Vag.

1:35.3

And I mean, you know, those are guys like Rick Clark and Archiletta and Gabe Brown and all those

1:43.3

guys have all been here. And I just figure, I call them my

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