Quality Agriculture: Conversations about Regenerative Agronomy with Innovative Scientists and Growers

Mainstream agronomy is based on a series of fallacies. That plants only absorb nutrients in the form of soluble ions. That mites, nematodes, insects, fungi, bacteria, and viruses attack plants indiscriminately. That pesticides are effective long-term solutions.

In Quality Agriculture, John Kempf sits down with 13 of the most knowledgeable scientists and growers in regenerative agriculture. Each chapter is an edited conversation from the Regenerative Agriculture Podcast. Together they explain how growers decrease fertilizer applications, reduce disease and insect pressure through plant nutrition, hold more water in the soil, cycle nutrients through soil biology, and grow crops of higher nutritional quality.

Inside this volume

• Michael McNeill: developing disease resistance and regenerating soil health
• Don Huber: suppressing disease for future crops
• Jerry Hatfield: the value of regenerative agriculture management
• Robert Kremer: indicators of healthy soil
• Gabe Brown: working with life in the soil
• Kris Nichols: eliminating the need for synthetic fertilizers
• Jonathan Lundgren: ecosystem diversity prevents insect pressure
• Klaas Martens: cultural management for organic weed control
• Gary Zimmer: concepts in biological farming
• Tom Dykstra: insects as nature's garbage collectors
• Ed Curry: breeding for health and quality
• Gerald Pollack: water and nutrient movement in plants and cells
• Matt Kleinhenz: meeting the demand for nutrient-dense food

Who this book is for

Farmers, growers, crop consultants, agronomists, and students who sense there is a better way to grow crops. The conversation format keeps each guest's own voice and reasoning, so you hear how these scientists and growers think through a problem. This is Volume 1 of the Quality Agriculture series.

About the author

John Kempf is the founder of Advancing Eco Agriculture and the host of the Regenerative Agriculture Podcast. He grew up on a fruit and vegetable farm in northeastern Ohio. With his team, he has implemented regenerative agricultural systems on millions of acres across many crop types and growing regions.