Hi friends. I'm John Kemp hosting this podcast. Imagine if you can, a world in which tractor

manufacturers don't have any quality control checks in place and they don't try to produce a higher

quality product than the competitor. Instead, each tractor manufacturer, John Deere, Case, New Holland,

Cabota, etc. Simply try to produce as many tractors as possible

to make their tractor the most abundant and sell more tractors than the competition. But they

don't check for quality. It's simply about producing volume. It's very difficult for us to

imagine a world like that. And yet, that's exactly the worldview that many of us have when we think

about crop production. William Albrecht, many years ago, said that we have become incredibly

accurate at hitting the bull's eye of the wrong target. And what he was referring to is that we

don't take quality of output into consideration when we think about our food supply.

Peter Diamanda says that without a target, you will miss it every time.

In this episode, Sarah Singla will challenge your thinking about the goals that you have for your farm,

and will describe some goals such as eliminating erosion and producing a high quality

outcome as being among the first and most important goals on a farm equal to or perhaps even

greater than achieving high yields.

I'm here with a farmer and agronomist who is widely respected for her work in no-till and with

multi-species cover cropping farming in southern France on about 250 acres.

Sarah Singles Farm has been no-till since 1980, a period of almost 40 years.

Sarah, we're very excited to have you share some of the things that you've been working on.

I failed to mention also Sarah is a Newfield scholar, has looked at farms in many different regions

around the world, teaches very widely on how to incorporate multi-species cover cropping into

farming operations. So Sarah, we're very excited to have you. Thanks for joining us.

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