Some farms are sitting on thousands of pounds of nutrients, and their crops are still starving. Why?
Because the missing link isn’t fertilizer. Its function.
In this episode of Soil Talks™ Podcast, Brandon Kail sits down with Tom Vander Heiden, GM of Ag at ST Biologicals, bringing 43+ years in agriculture and 15+ years in soil microbiology, to break down what most soil conversations never address:
• Why standard soil tests miss the living system
• The biology gap when nutrients exist but plants can’t access them
• Why carbon, water, and oxygen drive everything downstream
• How manure diversity was regenerative long before the term existed
• Why soil health can’t be fixed at 60 mph only with a shovel
One line from this episode says it all:
“The greatest limiting factor of yield… is the farmer’s shadow.”
This isn’t theory.
It’s field-tested biology, economics, and decision-making explained for growers who care about profitability, resilience, and legacy.
🎧 Listen now and rethink how soil actually feeds crops.
