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AEA Newsletter
December 2024
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Hi Friends, 
 
December is upon us and we are reflecting upon 2024, which has been a difficult year for many farmers dealing with suboptimal weather and commodity prices, but we've also seen some incredible successes among growers we work with. 
  • We'll be posting year-in-review reflections on our social media pages this month. 
  • Our prepay program offers a chance to make the most of your 2025 budget. 
  • But first up, John Kempf will be hosting a year-end recap webinar with 3 growers:

1. John Kempf hosts a Year in Review
John Kempf, founder of Advancing Eco Agriculture, will host a webinar with three AEA growers, including: 
  • Reflections on the successes, challenges, and milestones of 2024.
  • Lessons learned from the past year
  • Looking ahead to the opportunities and goals for 2025.
 
Thursday, December 19
2pm ET
Register Here

2. 🤑 Plan ahead and save with prepay! 
Now’s the time to determine your nutritional needs for next growing season. Get rewarded for planning ahead with AEA’s prepay program. 
  • Make a deposit by December 22nd to get a bonus credit of up to 12%
  • Prepayments in January will get a flat 7% bonus
  • Bonus must be spent on AEA products by August 31st, 2025 (deposit never expires). 
Claim your bonus

3. 📖 Best of the blog
 
Last week, John Kempf wrapped up his six-part series of blog posts for market gardeners and small-scale growers. 
 
He pointed out six essential steps that every small-scale grower needs to take in order to unlock their soil biology’s potential to provide plant nutrition. 
If you missed it, check them out here.
 
Yesterday we started a new series of posts describing the Critical Points of Influence. They'll illuminate how growers can time their nutrient applications to a plant’s stage of development to achieve maximum impact on yield, and even alter a plant’s behavior. 
 
Don’t miss it! Subscribe to our blog, and you’ll get each post right to your inbox when it comes out. 
Click here to subscribe to the blog

4. Great Lakes Expo: December 10-12
Join us at the Great Lakes Expo in Grand Rapids, Michigan! 

The Great Lakes Expo is a 3-day event for fruit, vegetable, and greenhouse growers, as well as farm markets.
  • John Kempf will be presenting 3 times, along with a host of other excellent speakers.
  • Our agronomists will be at a booth. Stop by and say hi! And bring your questions for them to answer. 
Learn more on our website

5. Contest: Name that Crop!
Last month’s mystery crop was a tricky one, but 20 people correctly identified it:
 
 Teff 
(Eragrostis tef)
  • A staple crop in Ethiopia
  • One of the world’s oldest cultivated plants.
Our lucky winner, Roger from Iowa, encountered teff in a Senegalese learning garden while teaching a course in Agroecology. On Roger’s next trip to Senegal, he’ll be sporting a fly AEA hat. 
 
(Teff can be distinguished from grains like wheat and rice by its fine, sparse grain heads that contain its tiny seeds, which are about the size of poppy seeds). 

Can you name this month’s mystery crop that produces this incredible flower?
 
One lucky winner who guesses correctly will win an AEA hat. 
Submit your guess for a chance to win

6. 📸 Photo of the Month
This shot of a bale of regeneratively-grown cotton in the Mississippi Delta got people excited on social media.
  • The grower is part of our Integrity Grown verification program.
  • The majority of Integrity Grown growers have been able to eliminate all insecticides, fungicides, and PGRs.
  • We're looking forward to seeing lots more cotton bales labeled like this!
Photo credit: Bruno Sagrera
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