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January 2026

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Hi Friends,

Happy New Year!

We hope your 2026 is filled with arbuscular mycorrhizae, adequate levels of plant-available manganese, and bountiful harvests of exceptionally high-quality crops.

In today's newsletter, we have news about BioCoat Gold, events we'll be attending, opportunities to become AEA distributors, and Prepay discounts.

First, a jaw-dropping success at a Texas nursery using AEA nutrition instead of pesticides.

1. 🪴 Controlling nursery diseases for 1/6 the cost

Photo by Michael Roe.

Regenerative practices are transformative not only for soil-grown crops, but also containerized plants in nurseries.

In fact, regenerative nutrition management can solve a number of problems uniquely faced by plant nurseries, like:

Zero tolerance for diseases: nurseries have to scrap diseased plants.
Rampant infections: certain diseases can infect 100% of plants once they appear.
Potting material can easily develop nutrient deficiencies or excesses, like excess salt from fertilizers.

Magnolia Gardens Nursery, a 160-acre ornamental plant nursery in Texas, was no stranger to these challenges. With the goals of reducing pest and disease pressure and boosting profitability, Magnolia Gardens brought in a new General Manager, Michael Roe, to capitalize on his 7 years of experience successfully using nutrition management with AEA programs at another nursery.

Magnolia trialed an AEA nutritional program with sap analysis on three “problem species” which are notorious for their disease and pest susceptibility.

The program included:

Regenerative Soil Primer with added Calcium
- Rejuvenate™, SeaGuard™, CalGuard™, & Spectrum DS™

Monthly Nutritional Foliars
- SeaStim™, CalGuard™, and MicroPak™ were key ingredients
- Applied via overhead fertigation

After just 5 months on the AEA program, the results were stark:

Massive increase in sap nutrient levels
Complete elimination of fungicides and insecticides
Reduction in scrapped plants
Negligible pest and disease issues in the 3 problem species

The craziest part?

All those benefits cost 84% less than the conventional program.

Based on these results, we are confident in saying that every single plant nursery in the country should be using AEA nutrition 😁.

Have a favorite nursery that should be going regenerative? Share this case study with them!

Read the full case study

2. 🏅 BioCoat Gold™ is OMRI approved

The GOAT of seed treatments is now ironclad for organic producers: BioCoat Gold has been approved by OMRI.

BioCoat Gold™—a dry mycorrhizal seat coating—has been our most popular product for years, thanks to its ease of use, exceptional ROI, and consistent success in a variety of conditions.

It was already NOP-approved for organic use, but OMRI approval makes it simple and more accessible for organic growers.

PLUS! Stay tuned for a very exciting announcement about BioCoat Gold coming out later this month . . .

Shop BioCoat Gold™

3. 💰 Get your 7% discount with Prepay

Didn’t prepay in December? Don’t worry: Prepay continues in January! Make a prepay deposit in January to qualify for 7% off all your AEA orders in 2026.

Join loads of other growers taking advantage of these steep discounts to keep costs low in 2026.

Here’s how it works:

Make a prepay deposit with AEA of over $5,000 by the end of January.
You get 7% off every order you place with your deposit through August.
Ahhhh . . . your budget gets to breathe.

Learn more about Prepay

4. 🏬 Accepting New AEA Dealers

Demand for our services is higher than ever!

In order to serve every grower who wants to work with AEA, we’re building a nationwide network of AEA distributors.
This will ensure prompt product delivery, and boots-on-the ground service and expertise across the country.

We’re now accepting applications for new dealers.

We're especially looking for new dealers in the Southeastern U.S.

Join a great network of AEA dealers, including Bass Hybrids, T&T Acres, and more.

We’re looking for dealers who:

Align with AEA’s values and mission
Have a great reputation in the industry
Have the agronomic expertise to support growers
Can blend liquid products and deliver them promptly to growers

Benefits of becoming a dealer include:

Access to best agronomy training in world
Providing highly effective regenerative products to your clients
Supporting the global transition to regenerative agriculture

Do you work with an input distributor who you think would be a great fit? Please share the application with them!

Apply here

5. 👋 Event Schedule

It's another packed month of conferences and events!

Find us all over the country this month.

Southeast Fruit and Vegetable Conference

This weekend! It's already underway! Pack your bags and get yourself to Savannah.

🗓️ January 8-10
📍Savannah, GA

Cropping Systems Conference

Say hi to us at the Pacific Northwest Direct Seed Association's conference.

🗓️ January 13-14

📍Kennewick, WA

Growing Wisconsin

Senior Agronomist Rachelle Moss will be speaking on "Using Sap analysis in Pumpkins."

🗓️ January 18-20

📍Wisconsin Dells, WI

5th Annual Regenerative Tree Nut Field Day

Burroughs Family Farm hosts this awesome event every year. We'll be in attendance: come find us!

🗓️ January 27-28
📍Denair, CA

Learn more

Washington/Oregon Potato Conference

We'll have a booth and tons of great wisdom on growing better potatoes.

🗓️ January 27-29
📍Kennewick, WA

High Plains No-Till Conference

John Kempf will be one of the keynote speakers at the Colorado Conservation Tillage Association's annual conference.

🗓️ February 2-3
📍Burlington, CO

Oregon Blueberry Conference

We'll have a booth, come find us!

🗓️ February 3
📍Salem, OR

6. 📸 Photo of the month

James Johnson, of W.R. Johnson & Sons and Carzalia Valley Produce, is a cutting-edge regenerative producer at scale, and a longtime friend, proponent, and customer of AEA. (Podcast fans might remember James sharing his wisdom b ack in 2021, and from the 100th episode, when he interviewed John Kempf.)

This year, in spite of continued challenging conditions (4 years of drought), they produced cotton yields 2-3x higher than the state average.

Upland Cotton:

State average: 2.5 bales
Johnson's: 5.5 bales

Pima Cotton:

State average: 1.5 bales
Johnson's: 4.5 bales

This tracks with the incredible yields, quality, and consistency we've seen with cotton grown on the AEA program, both in the U.S. and internationally.

(For those of you unfamiliar with cotton species, 90% of the cotton grown worldwide is upland (Gossypium hirsutum), while Pima (Gossypium barbadense, known elsewhere as “Egyptian”) is prized for its extra-long fibers)

Listen to James Johnson on the podcast

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