Podcast Short: BioCoat Gold and the Future of Risk-Sharing in Ag

John Kempf· Host0:00

Hi, friends. This is John. Welcome back to the Regenerative Agriculture Podcast. Today, I want to have a conversation about farm economics and relationships between farmers and vendors, and some of the work that we are doing with BioCo Gold to address some of these challenges. We live in interesting times. We see that particularly here in North America, but also around the world. Uh, many growers, depending on the crops they're growing and the situation they're in, many growers are in a very difficult economic context. And I've always been fascinated by... in trying to understand how did we get to this spot? How did we arrive at this place? And there are many different contributing factors. I've been speaking about this topic, uh, quite a bit this winter at conferences when I've been asked to talk about farm economics conversation with myself and Michael McNeil. Actually, I think we might have ended up sharing it here on the podcast. I try to understand how did we get to where we are, and there are many different contributing factors. Um, there, there's a combination of, of reasons for why we've arrived at this spot of, of farmers being so heavily extracted from, and to some degree, um, not being in control of their own destiny as long as they choose to, uh, continue with the status quo of production practices and, and, uh, crops that are common. And I found it interesting when I going,