Groundswell - a podcast by GroundWork.ag

Verdesian's Nick Favret and Mike Zwingman talk about the performance of MicroSync granular micronutrients in this episode of "Windshield Time Cabcast."

In this episode of Verdesian's "Windshield Time Cabcast" series, Mike Zwingman and Nick Favret talk about AVAIL T5 Phosphorus Use Efficiency Technology.

Verdesian's Nick Favret and Mike Zwingman talk about the performance of Take Off LS in this episode of "Windshield Time Cabcast."

Welcome to the Windshield Time Cabcasts by Verdesian Life Sciences. This series is designed to make your drive-time more effective by learning about nutrient use efficiency technologies.

Ask 10 different farmers what sustainability means to them and you’ll get 10 different answers, all of which will be right. Best defined as, “continuous improvement on every acre,” a more sustainable industry asks farmers to do more with less, but that shouldn’t be a burden they have to carry alone – feeding the world is a partnership. In the final episode of the Groundswell series, our guests connect what’s being done at the policy level to make sustainability profitable, how that message is being communicated and where growers are implementing these ideas and practices on-farm.

When a farm business maintains productive and healthy soil to grow high-performing crops, our communities, and the land and water supplying them, all thrive. To make these kinds of strides toward continuous agronomic improvement, the on-farm and downstream environmental benefits must exist alongside the farm operation’s profit potential. Only then will it be possible to engage all farmers of all crops in making the necessary agronomic changes to improve the sustainability of their operations. Farmers, and the agronomists working with them, need data they can act on. If we hope to standardize sustainable practices, we have to ensure we can measure this progress on every acre based on proven, scientific indicators for sustainability, soil health and water quality. Listen to episode five of the Groundswell podcast.

Plants require 17 essential elements to grow and develop to their full genetic potential. Among the most critical elements is nitrogen – a macro nutrient that is essential to forming plant proteins and biomass. This episode features researcher Dr. Michael Udvardi of the Noble Institute who is exploring plant responses to nitrogen in both developed countries and the developing world, as well as those helping farmers implement more sustainable practices on farm, such as retail agronomist, Brad Ruden and Nature Conservancy strategist Carrie Vollmer-Sanders.

Phosphorus applications – in what form they go down and when – are specific to the region, soil type and crop need. Continuous improvement on every acre that is both profitable and sustainable is something we discuss regularly. When it comes to phosphorus, we have more work to do on elevating this macronutrient in farmers’ minds and helping them to ensure their applications are efficient. Our waterways depend on it.

The conservation movement began with farmers. It’s with a great sense of pride in their land, community and family that production agriculture operates its business. In this episode of Groundswell, we talk about the collaboration among farmers, researchers, retailers and distributors to secure long-term sustainability for our land and water and advance the profit potential from our crops.

On the first episode of the Groundswell podcast, Kenny Avery, CEO of Verdesian, and Greg Thompson, president and chief operating officer of Verdesian, along with their friends in the field, discuss what it really means and looks like to have continuous improvement around sustainability on every acre.