Farm Green: Recent Episodes
Rick Clark
Join Rick Clark as he launches his new podcast "Farm Green", where he will discuss all things soil health and regenerative LIVE, enabling listeners to ask questions and engage in conversation.Rick Clark is a 5th generation farmer from Williamsport, IN. The main goal on the farm is to build soil health and achieve balance with Mother Nature. Rick has developed and is constantly improving a systematic approach to regenerative farming. He is most proud of incorporating regenerative farming practices with all acres being certified organic. He calls it regenerative organic stewardship with no tillage. He will suppress weeds and build soil health with cover crops and no tillage. Rick also cares deeply about human health, as it is another important driver behind the organic no till style of farming. Rick is building a system that will be viable and profitable for generations to come.
Ryan is the Global Row Crop Sustainability Director for Cargill. In his role, he is responsible for leading strategy development and implementation of row crop sustainability programs and initiatives across Cargill’s enterprises. Focus areas include optimizing farmer productivity and prosperity while lessening impact on water and climate through scalable adoption of soil health best practices and supply chain alignment. Ryan has spent his entire career working along the food and agriculture value chain. His experiences range from managing a row crop and beef operation in Maryland to creating integrated supply chain solutions between dairy producers, growers and consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies. Most recently, he has led the launch of a soil health program at a global FMCG before returning to Cargill to lead row crop sustainability within Cargill’s Sustainability Hub. Ryan holds a B.S. in Animal Science from Virginia Tech and a M.S. in Economics from the University of Delaware.
On this episode of Farm Green Podcast, we have special guest Nicole Atchison with Puris Foods. Nicole is responsible for leading innovation across the PURIS portfolio of companies including ingredient technologies, processing technologies, seed genetic strategy, and channel strategy. PURIS cultivates a spectrum of pure, plant based foods and ingredients from U.S.-based organic and Non-GMO sources.
Join Rick Clark as he launches his new podcast "Farm Green", where he will discuss all things soil health and regenerative LIVE. In the inaugural episode, Rick will be joined by Loran Steinlage and Jimmy Emmons as they continue their conversation from the National No-Till Conference.