Podcast Extra: Rethinking Fertility Inputs | Soil Strategies Podcast

In this Podcast Extra, John Kempf joins the Soil Strategies podcast, hosted by Roy Thompson of the South Dakota Soil Health Coalition, to break down a radically different operating system for agriculture that transitions away from traditional NPK mindsets toward biological agronomy .

In this episode they discuss:

• How high-salt index, electrolyte-based fertilizers interrupt plant signaling and create a long-term dependency by sabotaging effective microbial colonization .

• The powerful role a healthy microbiome plays in supercharging a plant's native genetic expression for ultimate disease and insect resistance .

• Why conventional soil tests have historically been utilized primarily as fertilizer sales tools rather than agronomic guides .

• The incredible economic opportunity growers have to break away from being "farmed" by input companies by optimizing fr