Regenerative Agriculture Podcast
Technical and practical conversations about soil health, crop nutrition and regenerative farming systems.
- Host
- John Kempf
- Published by
- Advancing Eco Agriculture
- Topic
- Food & Agriculture
- Format
- Interview
- Orientation
- Sustainability
- Themes
- Regenerative, Resilience, Nature Positive
- Made for
- Professional / Practitioner, Founder / Entrepreneur
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Latest episodes
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- Open episode
22 Oct 2026 · 106 min
Episode 193: A Different Perspective on Fusarium with Heber Hall and Kirk Mersil
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 instead partnered with researcher and consultant Heber Hall to diagnose the root physiological drivers behind the outbreak. Drawing on plant pathology and biochemistry, Heber explains that Fusarium is not inherently an aggressive pathogen, but rather a ubiquit
- Open episode
15 Oct 2026 · 60 min
Episode 192: Breaking Up Compaction with Roots Instead of Steel with Lloyd Murdock
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 practice in Kentucky. He also contributed research behind the soil penetrometer and developed an algorithm for variable-rate nitrogen in wheat. For the past decade or more, he has focused on breaking down fragipan soils with annua
- Open episode
8 Oct 2026 · 61 min
Episode 191: Tar Spot, Tip Back, and Real-Time Plant Data with Jeff Kleypas
Jeff Kleypas is Distribution Manager and Senior Agronomist at Advancing Eco Agriculture, based in South Texas. He began his career 20 years ago as a crop consultant walking South Texas vegetable fields that were sprayed weekly with insecticides and fungicides. He started working with biologicals in 2009 and joined AEA four years ago. He also runs a 1.5-acre market farm at home, where he tests new tools himself. Jeff works with row crop growers and dealers across the Midwest and South, many of them now in year three or four of a full AEA program. This season he helped calibrate the CropTix sap