{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgrowing-the-future.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fjocelyn-velestuk-DQ7Rf0wO","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Why Soil Health Became a Buzzword Instead of a Practice","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/1fa356cd-6e54-41a2-bbf4-99a91ee4ce68/050ed98f-96ec-4239-bd11-cd54681db212/cropped_1788359098585.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/385202f8-0a9f-44a8-8dd6-59a9afb31e5d\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"Why Soil Health Became a Buzzword Instead of a Practice\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"Jocelyn Velestuk is an agronomy consultant, a cattle and grain farmer, president of the Saskatchewan Soil Conservation Association, and a director on the Sask Wheat Development Commission. She joins Dan to make the case that soil health stopped being a practice and became a phrase, and that the gap between the two is where most farms lose ground they did not know they were losing. She walks through how she actually reads a field, from sampling decisions through to the conversation where a producer sees the economics of their own soil, and why she thinks that conversation can make or break a farm. Producers walk away with a clearer sense of what to ask their own agronomist and why averaging a field is the fastest way to learn nothing."}