E42 Mitchell Hora - Sowing Success: Relay Cropping and Soil Health Strategies

Farmers Capital Conversations

Oct 4 2023 • 43 mins

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Farming for Passive Income show where we strive to educate the agricultural community on how to create alternative income streams and diversification through commercial real estate private equity.

Mitchell Hora, a seventh-generation farmer founded Continuum Ag back in 2015 as an agricultural consulting company specializing in the Haney soil health test. Today Continuum is a soil health data intelligence company that uses its topsoil software to enable farmers to profit from improving their soil health.

2:00 “One of the principles of soil health is Diversity.”

2:54 Diversity on the Farm

04:18 Relay Cropping

6:05 Region Roadmap

10:24 The impact they observed herbicide and pesticide usage as a result of implementing relay cropping in their farming practices

14:12 Relay Cropping process

15:30 “The only thing that builds soil structure is roots.”

17:20 Does Continuum Ag have resources for the Pacific Northwest?

19:50 COP26

21:14  Low Carbon Biofuel Tax credit.

27:48 The Formula for his carbon intensity score

29:24 What are the general steps for an Oregon farmer interested in implementing relay cropping or other regenerative practices, and do they have recommended partners or resources for them in that region?

34:32 His Commercial Real Estate journey

42:35 Takeaway from Mitchell

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