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October 2025
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Hi Friends, 
 
A frequent question we get is "sure, this is super cool and all, but how can regenerative farmers get paid a premium for their products, like organic farmers do?" 
 
The regenerative focus on outcomes over practices​ should apply to premium prices too:
  • Farmers should be rewarded for exceptional outcomes they achieve, not just because they use certain practices.
  • Growing nutrient-dense food is an outcome that the marketplace is willing to pay extra for. 
That's why we're excited to announce that we've partnered with Edacious to bring their industry-leading nutrient analysis to all AEA growers!
 
Read on for more details. 
But first, the other half of the profitability equation: reducing costs by reducing inputs, and our newest product, which has been engineered specifically to reduce inputs in lean times. 

1. 🧟‍♂️ Bring your soil to life with Revenant Charge™
Last week, we launched our newest product, Revenant Charge™, which is designed to be a low-cost, high-impact boost for soil biology. 
 
Revenant Charge™ is a microbial accelerant that activates soil biology to release nutrients, cutting down on next year’s fertilizer needs. 
  • It’s especially useful for row crop growers on a tight budget, as a cost-effective alternative to our Regenerative Soil Primer
Revenant Charge has performed impressively in our initial field trials, and we will be collecting much more data in the coming year to understand more precisely how it behaves in a variety of soil conditions. 
  • We’re exceptionally excited about the ability of fall-applied Revenant Charge to release NPK in the soil, letting growers cut their fertilizer costs in what promises to be a challenging 2026. 
Benefits of Revenant Charge include: 
  • Standalone: single-product soil application
  • True liquid: won’t settle or clog equipment
  • Available today in AL, AK, AZ, DE, GA, HI, LA, MA, MO, NJ, and NY
  • More state registrations are rolling in each week!
If you missed it, check out the recording of last week’s webinar where John Kempf: 
  • Explained how Revenant was developed
  • Gave a peek under the hood at how it works
  • Described in detail the Haney analyses from our 3 initial field trials this summer. 
We asked Rick Haney himself for help interpreting the Haney soil test results, and he said “It is extremely difficult for any product to demonstrate a response in these conditions.” 
 
But Revenant did.
Watch John Kempf’s webinar

2. 🥕 Edacious brings nutrient testing to AEA customers
We are excited to announce today that we’ve partnered with Edacious to prove how regenerative practices improve food quality.
 
Together, we aim to increase awareness of the value of nutrient-dense food, and deepen our understanding of how regenerative agriculture benefits humanity through food quality.
For farmers, proving the nutrient-density of their produce can be a key differentiator to:
  • Stand out in the marketplace
  • Access premium markets that value nutrient density
  • Be compensated for their responsible farm practices.
Back in February, we profiled regenerative citrus grower Herb Young, who has used this kind of testing to prove that his grapefruit have 8x the nutrient density of conventional fruit. 
  • Herb was able to charge a premium price and sell his grapefruit like hotcakes thanks to the buzz and demand this data created. 
For the regenerative movement as a whole, proving to consumers the value of our practices will: 
  • Increase interest and awareness
  • Provide a way for farmers to make more money
  • Incentivize adoption of regenerative by more farmers 
The best part of this partnership? 
  • Every AEA customer gets a 20% discount on food product analysis by the Edacious Lab.
Learn more, and get your discount code

3.  🗓️ October Events   

We’ll be at three awesome events this month. 
Find us at the RFSI forum! 
  • AEA will be at the Regenerative Food Systems Investment Forum.
  • John Kempf will moderate a grower panel.
  • Find us and say hi! 
🗓️ October 7-8 
📍 Minneapolis
Register

John Kempf will be sharing the screen with JM Fortier at the Global Market Gardener’s Summit, hosted by Fortier’s Market Gardener Institute. 
  • The Summit is a FREE, 3-day online event
  • Featuring presentations by some of the world’s top experts in bio-intensive market gardening
  • Closed captioning in all languages. 
John and JM will dive into the science of plant immunity and soil biology, showing how healthy soils can reduce pest pressure and boost productivity on market gardens. 
 
🗓️ October 8, 1 PM EDT
(Summit runs October 7-9)
📍Online
 
Register for free

AEA’s Kish Johnson will be presenting in person at JM Fortier’s 2-day “Digging Deeper” event hosted by the Leelanau Conservation District. 
 
Space is limited to 60 participants! 
 
🗓️ October 18-19
📍Traverse City, MI
 
Register

Huh, lots of collaboration between AEA and JM Fortier’s Market Gardener Institute.
 
I wonder what that portends for the future . . . 

Anyhow, moving on. 

 4. 💵 10% of Fall Soil Primer
You've still got time to get 10% off on the key ingredients in Soil Primer: Rejuvenate™, SeaShield™, and SeaGuard™. 
 
Ends November 15th.
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Rejuvenate™
  • Helps build an environment in which microorganisms can flourish
  • Supplies the “tools” they need to do their work
Shop
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SeaShield™
  • Beloved by soil fungi
  • Contains phosphorus, calcium, trace elements, and amino acid nitrogen
Shop
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SeaGuard™
  • Cheaper, non-organic alternative to SeaShield™.
  • Available only in 265-gallon totes
Shop

 5. 📖 Best of the Blog
While developing FieldLark.ai, John Kempf put in endless hours to fact-check, test, and generally put it through its paces to make sure it was giving valid advice that was ready for public consumption. 
  • That’s why we were so surprised, when we reviewed the metrics from FieldLark’s first month and discovered that John was only the SECOND highest user of FieldLark. 
  • In spite of all John’s testing, there was one power-user out there who had asked FieldLark more questions than him. 
We were eager to meet this person to see how he was using FieldLark. He graciously agreed to an interview, and we had a really nice conversation. 
  • Dave is a 37-year-old regenerative cattle grazier in Australia. 
“I just haven't come across an agronomist here that's aligned with what I'm trying to achieve,” he says.
  • He uses FieldLark for advice on everything from correlating sap and soil tests to avoiding phytotoxicity from urea foliars.
Read the interview here

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6. 🎃 Photo of the Month: Pinion™ on Pumpkins
We’ve been following organic pumpkins that had Pinion™ applied in early September when powdery mildew started appearing on the leaves. 
  • After Pinion was applied, the powdery mildew stopped in its tracks.
  • The untreated pumpkins look like they’ve got their Halloween costume ready: a ghastly mess of white mildew. 
Pinion has been doing amazing things in our trials, going toe-to-toe with powerful conventional fungicides in terms of disease control—but without disrupting the plant microbiome. 
  • It fits perfectly into a regenerative system of continually-improving plant health. 
Pinion is now available in CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, MA, MN, MO, NE, NM, NY, NC, OH, TX. 
  • Registrations are pending elsewhere!
Buy Pinion™

7. 📚 Reading List 
Stacking incomes is about to get ‘really, really important’ for the regenerative agriculture transition | AgFunder News

McDonald’s plans $200 million investment to promote regenerative practices on US cattle ranches | AP News
You’ve probably heard this news, but it’s a sign that the big dogs are catching on to our foundational idea: regenerative just works better. 
 
The Floods Kept Coming. He Needed to Grow a Crop That Would Thrive in Water — or to Quit | ProPublica 

Farmers Alarmed: U.S. Nearing Agricultural Economic Crisis — Steps to Reverse Course | Farm Journal 

Outraged Farmers Blame Ag Monopolies as Catastrophic Collapse Looms | Farm Journal

8. 🦠 Beat Overwintering Disease 
The graphic below shows just a few examples of the MANY diseases that overwinter in crop residue. 
  • A great way to get a handle on many of these diseases is to destroy their winter homes, which interrupts their life cycle, and doesn't leave inoculum to infect your crop in the coming year.
Conventional practices would be fungicides, or applying a source of nitrogen like urea to break down crop residue. 
  • But a thriving soil microbiome can break down crop residues, and those practices can actually throw the microbiome out of balance, preventing it from helping out.
A much better way to break down residue is to increase the activity of decomposition microbes during the fall, which accelerates crop breakdown over the winter, and leaves nothing but lovely, disease-free soil carbon come springtime.
 
Rejuvenating the microbiome has 3 main advantages over urea:
  1. enhances ​soil microbiome in the short-term
  2. builds stable humus to enhance the microbiome in the long-term
  3. contributes ​to nutrient cycling in the soil
We developed Rejuvenate™ many years ago specifically to assist with crop-residue breakdown by microbiome enhancement. 
  • Since then, we've discovered many other uses, and it has become one of our most popular products. 
  • But it still excels at breaking down residue in a standalone application, or as one third of our Regenerative Soil Primer.
Rejuvenate™
Shop now (10% off)
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