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What are the ingredients of change? How can you fuel and be an agent of change in your community? Rebekah Slabach serves as an extension agent of agriculture and natural resources with Virginia Cooperative Extension in Halifax County. Rebekah shares her early involvement with 4-H and Youth Conservation Camp as two educational opportunities growing up that sparked her interest and passion in agriculture and the environment. Rebekah sees her work with Extension to fuel and encourage positive change on farms and the broader community. Mindfulness, passion, and perspective are key elements for fueling change but also knowing your goals and not getting distracted by seemingly urgent needs. Soil fertility and health have to be managed for short-term and long-term profitability, resilience, and community change.

To learn more about Virginia Cooperative Extension's Natural Resource and Environmental Education programs and the Virginia's Soil and Water Conservation Districts' Youth Conservation Camp, please visit https://ext.vt.edu/4h-youth/nree.html and https://vaswcd.org/conservation-camp/

The basic information and core principles of soil health, along with two years of the 4 The Soil: A Conversation podcast archives, can be accessed at https://www.4thesoil.org/. To pledge your support to 4 The Soil, fill out the form at https://www.4thesoil.org/take-the-pledge and tell us how you are building soil resilience and health in your community.

Today in the podcast we have Goddess of Grain; Angie Setzer, Boyd Brooks & Adam Kramer.

Angie is a grain marketing specialist and market analyst, also known as 'Goddess of Grain on Twitter. In 2021 she launched her own advisory business, Consus. With her business, she helps farmers make decisions based on profitability, and helps them navigate the complex cash grain market by providing tailored advise to farmers’ specific needs.

She does this together with her business partners Boyd Brooks and Adam Kramer, also on the podcast with us today. Boyd Brooks works with growers as a cash grain broker and hedger.
Adam Kramer has been a Certified Crop Advisor since 2006. With his over 16 years experience using regenerative agricultural practices, he helps farmers putting together cropping plans that protect the environment and lead to produce higher yields and increased profitability for their farms.

Today in the podcast we have Goddess of Grain; Angie Setzer, Boyd Brooks & Adam Kramer.

Angie is a grain marketing specialist and market analyst, also known as 'Goddess of Grain on Twitter. In 2021 she launched her own advisory business, Consus. With her business, she helps farmers make decisions based on profitability, and helps them navigate the complex cash grain market by providing tailored advise to farmers’ specific needs.

She does this together with her business partners Boyd Brooks and Adam Kramer, also on the podcast with us today. Boyd Brooks works with growers as a cash grain broker and hedger.
Adam Kramer has been a Certified Crop Advisor since 2006. With his over 16 years experience using regenerative agricultural practices, he helps farmers putting together cropping plans that protect the environment and lead to produce higher yields and increased profitability for their farms.

Today we’ll catch-up with Mitchell and hear more about his experience with regenerative ag, why and how he founded Continuum Ag and what developments, trends, concerns he is currently witnessing in the industry.

Mitchell Hora is a 7th generation Iowa farmer and founded Continuum Ag in 2015. Continuum Ag is a soil health data intelligence company, on a mission to help 1 million farmers profit from improving their soil health. Continuum Ag is one of our important local partners and provides the Carbon Bank with agronomic advise. 

In this Talkin' episode we delve into ‘warts & all’ exploration on the planning, preparation & implementation of a ‘Do it yourself’ Soil Carbon project. Our guests are Jennifer West from Carbon West, founder of Carbon West, an independent carbon services consultancy specialising in soil carbon project research, assessment, and development, and Brett Hazelden, a Lower Blackwood sheep farmer who is undertaking an independent soil carbon project on his Warner Glen property.

 

Katherine Trebeck presented at the RCS Convergence Conference last July and her compelling session there and this interview centres around the economies of the world, their often misguided methods of measurement and indicators of 'success', and introduces the principles of the 'wellbeing economy', focusing on more human and community-centric measures of success and prosperity.

Episode links:

• Wellbeing Economy Alliance - https://weall.org/
• Humankind index - https://policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/oxfam-humankind-index-the-new-measure-of-scotlands-prosperity-second-results-293743/
• The economies of arrival- Ideas for a grown-up economy - https://www.amazon.com.au/economics-arrival-Ideas-grown-up-economy-ebook/dp/B07MCMG2VN
• Being Bold- Budgeting for Children’s wellbeing - https://childreninscotland.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/BeingBold-Report.pdf
• The High Price of Materialism - https://booktopia.kh4ffx.net/ORgkWZ
• The Light Bulb Conspiracy  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulUI7JsFjZU
• Farmers Footprint - https://farmersfootprint.org.au/
• Simon Kuznets - https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/1971/kuznets/biographical/

Season Sponsor: 

This season we've teamed up with Highland Beef Pastoral a grass-fed beef supply chain servicing the growing US grass-fed market. 

The Highland Beef program uses an innovative model to change how farmers and customers interact. 

Essentially, this Australian-owned business places cattle on their member graziers’ properties at their expense and provides farmers competitive returns for every kg of beef produced, allowing them to focus on improving their businesses in a capital-free, risk-free environment.  

If you’re interested in finding out more about this program visit hbpastoral.com.au/charliearnott. 

 

Episode Credits:

Thank you to all who’ve made this show possible. Our host Charlie Arnott. Our producer is Rhys Jones of Yaga Media. And, of course, we are grateful for our sponsors, Patreon supporters, and listeners.

Patrons get access to exclusive videos, a discussion community, and much more. Go to https://charliearnott.com.au/podcast/ to support my work.

Katherine Trebeck presented at the RCS Convergence Conference last July and her compelling session there and this interview centres around the economies of the world, their often misguided methods of measurement and indicators of 'success', and introduces the principles of the 'wellbeing economy', focusing on more human and community-centric measures of success and prosperity.

Episode links:

• Wellbeing Economy Alliance - https://weall.org/
• Humankind index - https://policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/oxfam-humankind-index-the-new-measure-of-scotlands-prosperity-second-results-293743/
• The economies of arrival- Ideas for a grown-up economy - https://www.amazon.com.au/economics-arrival-Ideas-grown-up-economy-ebook/dp/B07MCMG2VN
• Being Bold- Budgeting for Children’s wellbeing - https://childreninscotland.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/BeingBold-Report.pdf
• The High Price of Materialism - https://booktopia.kh4ffx.net/ORgkWZ
• The Light Bulb Conspiracy  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulUI7JsFjZU
• Farmers Footprint - https://farmersfootprint.org.au/
• Simon Kuznets - https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/1971/kuznets/biographical/

Season Sponsor: 

This season we've teamed up with Highland Beef Pastoral a grass-fed beef supply chain servicing the growing US grass-fed market. 

The Highland Beef program uses an innovative model to change how farmers and customers interact. 

Essentially, this Australian-owned business places cattle on their member graziers’ properties at their expense and provides farmers competitive returns for every kg of beef produced, allowing them to focus on improving their businesses in a capital-free, risk-free environment.  

If you’re interested in finding out more about this program visit hbpastoral.com.au/charliearnott. 

 

Episode Credits:

Thank you to all who’ve made this show possible. Our host Charlie Arnott. Our producer is Rhys Jones of Yaga Media. And, of course, we are grateful for our sponsors, Patreon supporters, and listeners.

Patrons get access to exclusive videos, a discussion community, and much more. Go to https://charliearnott.com.au/podcast/ to support my work.

Cos’è il carbon farming e come, gestendo in maniera efficiente un’azienda agricola o una stalla, si riesce a contrastare il cambiamento climatico? Questa puntata prova a chiarire i riflessi di una parola molto in voga. Intanto la Commissione europea, a fine novembre 2022 ha presentato una proposta di regolamento per creare un mercato europeo volontario di crediti di carbonio e nel 2025 dovrebbero essere scambiati i primi crediti certificati.

Ospiti di questa puntata:
Marco Acutis, professore UniMi
Maddalena Zucali, professoressa UniMi
Maria Cecilia Bianchi, ricercatrice UniMi
Salvatore Infantino, Servizio Fitosanitario Regione Puglia

Per approfondire:
Il rapporto ISPRA sulle emissioni di gas climalteranti italiane (362/2022):
https://www.isprambiente.gov.it/it/pubblicazioni/rapporti

Il progetto CleverMilk:
https://sites.unimi.it/clevermilk/

Per raggiungere l’obiettivo di neutralità climatica al 2050, gli agricoltori sono fondamentali: con tecniche agronomiche possono stoccare il carbonio e diventare protagonisti del contrasto al cambiamento climatico. La nuova Politica Agricola Comune, la PAC, cerca di incentivare le pratiche amiche dell’ambiente. Cosa significa stoccare il carbonio e perché è importante? Dopo aver ascoltato questa puntata del podcast non avrete più dubbi sul tema. Ospiti: Carlo Rega, ingegnere ambientale e Scientific Officer per il Centro Comune di Ricerca della Commissione Europa di ISPRA, incontrato al festival Food and Science di Mantova; Saverio Maluccio, ricercatore del CREA, Nucleo Monitoraggio Carbonio. Per approfondire: partecipac.eu; nucleomonitoraggiocarbonio.it

Stuart Austin is fast becoming an expert and well respected advocate of building soil carbon, as well as a well known practitioner of regenerative farming on the collection of Wilmot Cattle Co properties. Charlie caught up with Stuart to delve into his journey from farm boy in southern NSW, ringer from the top end of Australia, recruiter of ranch hands in Canada, to general manager of the Wilmot Cattle Company in NSW.

Head over here to see show notes and links.

Stuart Austin is fast becoming an expert and well respected advocate of building soil carbon, as well as a well known practitioner of regenerative farming on the collection of Wilmot Cattle Co properties. Charlie caught up with Stuart to delve into his journey from farm boy in southern NSW, ringer from the top end of Australia, recruiter of ranch hands in Canada, to general manager of the Wilmot Cattle Company in NSW.

Head over here to see show notes and links.

If you’ve changed some of your habits and have embraced a sustainable lifestyle, but you want to go one step further by offsetting your carbon emissions this podcast episode is for you.

I’m joined by Louise Tarrier, CEO of Carbon Positive Australia. Louise will share how individuals and organisations can easily offset their carbon emissions to become carbon neutral and create a better future for us all.

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