Podcast Extra: Rethinking Fertility Inputs | Soil Strategies Podcast
5/21/202651 min
In this Podcast Extra, John Kempf joins the Soil Strategies podcast, hosted by Roy Thompson of the South Dakota Soil Health Coalition, to break down a radically different operating system for agriculture that transitions away from traditional NPK mindsets toward biological agronomy .
In this episode they discuss:
How high-salt index, electrolyte-based fertilizers interrupt plant signaling and create a long-term dependency by sabotaging effective microbial colonization .
The powerful role a healthy microbiome plays in supercharging a plant's native genetic expression for ultimate disease and insect resistance
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First 90 secondsRoy Thompson· Host0:01
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another episode of Soil Strategies. Today's guest really doesn't need much of an introduction in the soil health space, but we're honored to have John Kempf with us, founder of Advancing EcoAgriculture. John is an agronomist, entrepreneur, sought after speaker, and the founder of Advancing EcoAgriculture, or AEA, where they work with farmers globally to improve crop performance through balanced nutrition, plant physiology, and biological soil function. He is also the host of the Regenerative Agriculture Podcast. With fertilizer prices remaining volatile, more producers are reevaluating how to think about nutrient management. John has helped growers around the world rethink how plant nutrition actually works, moving beyond strictly NPK mindset toward understanding how biological function and nutrient balance influence crop performance. And often that shift in perspective doesn't just change how much fertilizer is applies- applied. It changes how efficiently the crop is able to use what's already there. Today we're gonna explore nutrient management and discuss how excess or imbalanced fertility can sometimes even create a yield drag. John, welcome to Soil Strategies.
John Kempf· Guest1:12
Hey, Roy. Thanks for having me on. You're gonna pack a lot into this conversation, aren't you?
Roy Thompson· Host1:17
[laughs] Yeah. Only if we can. When we, when we get you on the, on the phone we are excited to, uh, to dive into some of these big topics. So in setting, setting the stage, many of us were taught that yield