Regenerative Agriculture Podcast

Eric Smith is the cofounder and CEO of Edacious, a public benefit company that measures and reports the nutritional quality of food. He spent his earlier career at what he calls the intersection of economy and ecology, working on carbon, water, and biodiversity markets as ways to pay growers for better land management. He concluded those payments would always come second to t...

Jerry Hatfield earned his PhD in agricultural climatology from Iowa State University and worked at UC Davis before spending his career with USDA's Agricultural Research Service. He led the National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment in Ames, Iowa, for about 25 years. He has written nearly 500 research papers and was inducted into the ARS Science Hall of Fame in 20...

Chuck Benbrook is an agricultural economist with a PhD in agricultural economics who has also farmed commercially. From 1979 to 1997 he worked on agricultural policy in Washington, D.C., including as executive director of the National Academy of Sciences' Board on Agriculture and of a House Agriculture subcommittee. He has spent more than 40 years researching farming systems,...

In this episode, commercial indoor producer Kirk Mersil shares his journey managing a 10,000-square-foot controlled-environment facility through an unexpected crop health crisis. Facing harvest losses exceeding 50% due to extreme plant brittleness and severe quality collapse, Kirk resisted conventional advice to destroy the operation and in...

Lloyd Murdock grew up in Oklahoma, earned his PhD in soils at Virginia Tech, and found his way to the University of Kentucky while stationed at nearby Fort Knox. He has spent more than four decades there as Extension Soils Specialist, and is now Professor Emeritus at the UK Research and Education Center in Princeton, Kentucky.

Lloyd helped make no-till wheat standard p...