
Will Brinkerhoff
Soil scientist and chef, PhD candidate at the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability, researching regenerative row-crop fertility via rotational grazing and urine-derived fertilizers.
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Aug 27, 2026
#85 - Good Soil Makes Food Taste Better | Will Brinkerhoff
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32:08JordanHOST
But how did the animals relate to this? Are they getting, are they coming into graze specifically the cover crop during that winter and during those few days and then getting off the land again? Is that how it works?

Will BrinkerhoffGUEST
One, which is a corn, soy, wheat farmer who already has a small herd of cows.

Will BrinkerhoffGUEST
And in the United States, that's pretty common, but it's becoming less and less common.

Will BrinkerhoffGUEST
So most of those farmers are selling off their cattle to the huge feedlot If you would have come around my part of the country, maybe 50 years ago, almost any farm, no matter what they were growing, would have had a few cattle because they're great to graze down extra fields and then their food for the family who's growing the food.
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36:53JordanHOST
Is this something that you are then thinking about trying to connect for people or help people with? on their farms of keeping resources, inputs, this whole regenerative style, trying to convince them away from this chemical approach.