Very clear presentation of important concepts. I liked the format of short lectures followed by quizzes I learned a lot, and look forward to more courses!
The course was filled with great, easy to understand information, which helps gives a foundation to the plant health pyramid and how minerals, the microbiome, and metabolic pathways lead to a healthy disease suppressive crop. I highly recommend.
I can say from personal experience that, as an agronomist, I have thoroughly benefited from attending many of Johns regenerative agriculture seminars and webinars. John definitely has a gift when it comes to teaching agriscience and is able to bring many different complex facets of agronomy together in an clear manner that even a novice can grasp and then begin to apply in any agricultural system.
A brilliant dive into the world of redox. I highly recommend it to get even more out of John’s webinars as he’s starting to reference and build more on the foundations laid within this course.
I gained good knowledge as to how pH and Redox potential can be used to monitor crops. Soil health is the “hot topic” and there is many functions, conditions, and variables that make soil health. This course will take you outside the box of conventional thinking and head you in the right direction.
I’d never heard of Redox Potential (Eh) before, so this course was revelatory! It was fantastic to hear about it and all the implications/ impacts it has from someone who is clearly a (the?) leader in this area. I found the subject is pretty technical, so you need to pay attention, you can’t just listen in the background as I tried to do initially.
You’ll be hard-pressed to find more cutting-edge, relevant or impactful information and experiential knowledge than what John shares in his webinars, podcasts, lectures and online courses….that is until you get the chance to attend a live training course. Be forewarned; the course will be dense. Study up, come prepared so that you can participate in the co-creation.
The Regenerative Agriculture Academy is the most comprehensive actionable course in cutting-edge regenerative agriculture (including regenerating farm profit) available that you won’t have to “unlearn” in just a few years as the science evolves.
Taking this course has deepened my knowledge of what a truly healthy plant is and how it ties into the greater ecosystem, as well as animal and human health. This is one happy soil-plant-microbe nerd! I recommend this course to anyone who wants to remove uncertainty and boost your confidence in working with plants and growing healthy food.
John has the ability to explain complex content very clear. It’s easy to understand, very good to apply and it makes a lot of sense! I’m looking forward to all the upcoming courses. It’s so much more useful than what I learned in school! Thanks for all your work.
Lennart Claassen
Why do we have water stressed crops with 30 inches of rain?
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How soil health determines crop available water supply.
Water is a basic need for agricultural production and without water we would have no production. Water management in agriculture will emerge as one of our greatest challenges with climate change because our agricultural production is dependent upon rainfall either directly in rain fed systems or indirectly through precipitation that is captured and then applied as irrigation water.
One of the climate signals that is evident is the increased variation in precipitation across years, within the year, and among locations. How we cope with this challenge will determine our ability to create a food secure world.
Over the course of my career, I have focused on the aspect of water use efficiency. Water use efficiency can be considered as how efficiently plants use water to create biomass, grain, or fruit; however, it has to be considered in combination with light and nutrient use efficiency. Agricultural production is limited by water availability and affects the lives of all people around the world. One of the critical aspects of how we begin to manage our water and that begins with how we manage our soils and the associated agronomic management to increase water storage and water availability to plants. Throughout the three sections of this overall course on water we will focus on the critical nature of water in plants and the factors that affect the water status in a plant.
We will explore how soils are different in their ability to supply to water and the role the atmosphere plays in determining the water status in plants. Finally, we will focus on what we can do to increase the water storage in the soil profile to offset the impacts of variation in precipitation throughout the growing season.
As we begin this series, let me share an observation with you. In the course of evaluating the impact of changes in tillage and crop management on producers yields, we discovered that corn and soybean yields were negatively related to above normal precipitation in April and May, and positively related to above normal precipitation in July and August.
Not all negative impacts of water are due to deficit conditions but excess water in the soil can be harmful to plant growth and development as deficit water conditions. We must understand that soil water management is part of a larger system in how we efficiently produce crops.
This begins with how we manage our soils as a reservoir for water to meet the crop needs and maximize the efficient use of all inputs. This is an exciting journey and one that pays dividends because efficient use of water benefits all humankind.
Jerry L. Hatfield Retired USDA-ARS Plant Physiologist
CEUs: 2 Soil & Water Management
Course Testimonials
"I thought I understood water. A comprehensive discussion on the principles of water within plants & soil, as well as detailed procedures to implement immediately with positive benefits. I sincerely thought the approaches to water management were simpler but knowing what facets to facilitate is invaluable empowerment! Grab a notebook & some organic popcorn"
- Aaron Silva
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