Why Crops Starve in Nutrient-Rich Soil | The Farmer’s Shadow Explained

Описание: Some farmers are sitting on thousands of pounds of nutrients and their crops are still starving.
Why?
Because the missing link isn’t fertilizer.
It’s function.
In this episode of Soil Talks™ Podcast, we sit down with Tom Vander Heiden, GM of Ag at ST Biologicals, to unpack what most soil conversations completely ignore: the living systems that turn nutrients into yield.

This isn’t theory.
This is what shows up when you slow down, dig in, and actually observe the soil.

In this conversation, we cover:

Why soil tests often miss the most important part of the equation

The biology gap (high nutrient soil, hungry plants)

How carbonic acid unlocks minerals already in your field

Why manure diversity worked before it was called regenerative

Why you don’t fix fields at 60 MPH, you fix them with a shovel

One line from this episode says it all:

“The greatest limiting factor of yield… is the farmer’s shadow.”

If you’re serious about profitability, resilience, and building a farm your kids actually want to inherit this conversation will change how you look at soil.

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00:00 – The hidden problem behind “good” soil tests
02:10 – Why crops starve in nutrient-rich fields
05:40 – The biology gap nobody measures
09:30 – Carbonic acid: the most underrated soil tool
14:20 – When manure diversity was regenerative (before the name)
19:10 – Why speed kills soil decision-making
24:45 – “The farmer’s shadow” explained
30:30 – What actually changes yield long-term
36:10 – How to start fixing function, not just fertility

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