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Regenerative Agriculture Podcast

Traits of Exceptional Farm Managers

Regenerative Agriculture Podcast

AEA Marketing

Earth Sciences, Science, Natural Sciences

4.7546 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I explore the characteristics shared by farm managers whose operations are exceptionally successful, and consistently outperform similar farms in the region.

In my experience as a field consultant and working with AEA's growers, I've observed a set of distinctive managerial patterns in the more successful growing operations. These traits bring outstanding results when farmers apply them over time. Listen to this episode for insights on these characteristics, and how they make growers more successful on their operations.

This podcast episode was originally recorded an exclusive webinar and received such fantastic feedback, I wanted to share it with you. Because this was a webinar, the audio quality is a somewhat lower than usual.

The concepts I cover include:

  • Focusing personal energy on increasing revenue, while delegating responsibility for decreasing costs to  managers
  • Developing an intimate understanding of the agronomic science needed to increase revenue
  • Focusing on developing manageable data, measuring, and documenting which techniques work or don't
  • Making decisions based on data, particularly economic data
  • Having an intuitive heart connection to your crops

 

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This show is brought to you by AEA, leaders in regenerative agriculture since 2006.

If you are a large-scale grower looking to increase crop revenue and quality, email hello@advancingecoag.com or call 800-495-6603 extension 344 to be connected with a dedicated AEA crop consultant.

 

 

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Extraordinary farm managers do more of these things, than others:

  • Focus their time and energy on increasing revenue (spend 80% of own finance related planning time)
  • Delegate decreasing costs to accountants, advisors, and/or other staff (spend 20% of own finance related planning time)
  • Develop an intimate knowledge of the science needed to increase revenue
  • Put a big focus on developing data sets, measuring, and documenting the techniques that work and don't work
  • Are decisive and make decisions based on data, particularly economic data
  • Plan for the long-term
  • Expect perfect implementation and execution from themselves and staff
  • Have close relationships with staff, bordering on family
  • Spend time learning new information (reading books, attending events, listening to educational media)
  • Are open-minded to exploring new information
  • Think big, start small, and scale fast
  • Have an intuitive heart connection to their crops

 

 

 

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Please send your feedback, requests for topics or guests, or booking request have a Podcast episode recorded LIVE at your event -- to production@regenerativeagriculturepodcast.com. You can email John directly at John@regenerativeagriculturepodcast.com.

 

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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,

0:11.3

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.

0:45.0

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. If you have any questions,

1:12.7

suggestions, comments, or topics of ideas that you would like for me to discuss, please connect

1:17.9

on social media or email me, John at regenerative agriculturepodcast.com. Be sure to sign up for

1:24.7

our email list at regenerative agriculture podcast.com.

1:28.2

Hope you enjoy and thank you for listening.

1:31.1

This episode was originally recorded as a webinar, which is why you might notice audio quality is a bit lower.

1:38.5

Growers expressed a lot of appreciation for the observations I shared, which is why I also wanted to share it with you here on the podcast.

1:45.0

Well, good evening, friends. Thank you for joining us. I will be talking about a slightly

1:49.9

different topic from those that I normally speak of, where I'm normally talking about agronomics.

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