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How can we transition hundreds of millions of acres in the U.S. to regenerative agriculture? It’s all about the Economics. Finance underlies everything. We’re here to explore how a new era in farming is getting financed. We’ll explore everything from: * Producers financing their own transition * Emerging commodity markets * New lending and risk management products * How data can drive premiums for producers * Potential land value impacts of new resiliency and productivity metrics * Corporate decarbonization and insetting programs * Ecosystem credits, including carbon, biodiversity & waterAnd a whole lot moreJoin us as we talk with an amazing set of guests from across the value chain and the financial industry to dive into the new financial vehicles that are supporting improved soil health.
Soil Upside hosts The Business of Soil Health, a business show with 20 episodes published.
Soil health drives resilience, input costs, and long-term productivity - yet none of that shows up when farmland is appraised. Lucas Chamberlain and Gillian Chesnut of the Delta Institute are trying to change that. Their
Reid Hensen, co-founder and managing partner at Celium Group, is a rancher, agricultural economist, and a data systems architect for some of the leading public and philanthropic soil health programs. His view is soil hea
Can we truly expect farmers to risk everything in order to regenerate the land? Lauren Manning, Executive Director of Food System 6, joins us to explore what it takes to build a financial system that serves farmers, rath
What is systemic investing, and how does capital orchestration move real dollars to real acres? Ivana Gazibara, Director of Prototyping at the Transformational Capital Initiative (TransCap), joins Sami and Patrick to unp
Early regenerative pioneer Keith Berns, co-founder of Green Cover, recounts how multi-species cover crops transformed from niche experiment to a million-acre business. Green Cover is a cover-crop innovator and one of the
What’s happening with Section 45Z—and what does it mean for farmers, ethanol producers, and the broader regenerative agriculture movement? In this update episode, Continuum Ag founder and seventh-generation Iowa farmer M
Corn and soy net $100–$200 per acre -- or less, given the extraordinarily difficult commodity markets at the moment. Chestnuts? Potentially $3,000–$5,000. But those returns don’t come free, the upfront cost of installing
How do you turn conservation into a cash crop? From his experience in the 1980s farm crisis to $55M in outcome-based payments, Adam Kiel explains how creating market signals for conservation underpins the Soil & Water Ou
What does catalytic capital actually look like in practice? In this episode, we sit down with Sara Balawajder, Director of Investments at Builders Vision, to go behind the scenes of one of the most active and respected i
This is one of the most exciting, detailed, and hopeful conversations we’ve had about the pace and structure of capital flowing to producers investing in soil health. It turns out that one of agriculture’s most opaque ar
What if everything we’ve been told about maximizing yield is leading us in the wrong direction? And if you’ve ever asked, “Where’s the premium?” or “Does changing on-farm practices mean a certainty of more risk in exchan
We have a conversation with former FSA Administrator Zach Ducheneaux on courage, capital, and how he’s trying to rewrite the rules of ag finance. A multi-generational producer himself, Zach recently launched The Fifth C—
We’re back with a new season—and a new co-host. In this episode kicking off Season 2, Patrick Smith is joined by new co-host Sami Tellatin, co-founder of FarmRaise and a longtime advocate for financing solutions that sup
In this episode I talk with independent agronomist Jerel Kratt who works in the southern Central Valley of California. He unpacks why many have become skeptical of regenerative agriculture in California: 🌪️ Visible fail
In this conversation, Emma Fuller, co-founder of Fractal.ag, discusses their novel farmland investment model, which makes minority equity investments in farmland while incentivizing soil health practices. Fractal is the
In this episode, Patrick Smith interviews Matt Nicoletti, Director of Business Development at Penny Newman Grain—a California grain trader founded in 1878 that has grown into a global leader in bulk commodity logistics.
Mitchell is a 7th-generation Iowa farmer and the Founder/CEO of Continuum Ag, a soil health data intelligence company. He’s one of the leading evangelists for scoring crops according to their Carbon Intensity as a measur
Matt Rohlik is the Managing Director of Sales and Strategic Partnerships at ARVA Intelligence. ARVA plays a key role in the “insetting market” – the market for ecosystem assets *inside* companies’ supply chains. This is
We kick off the podcast with a fantastic overview of the interlocking pieces of the puzzle of financing soil health transition. We delve into how farmers, lenders, insurers, and companies across the ag value chain are ad
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