John KempfRegenerative Agriculture Entrepreneur

“AEA made it fun to be a farmer.”

8 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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Mike Omeg runs a 3,500-acre cherry orchard in Oregon and credits AEA with making farming fun again. The program delivered consistent results across different weather and soil conditions without sales pressure. He says the products sell themselves, and the supportive approach keeps him learning and engaged.

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If you can wave your hand at your crop and they wave back at you, you're in a sweet spot. I'm Mike Omeg. I'm Director of Orchard Operations with Orchard View, and we're in The Dalles, Oregon, where I raise cherries on about 3,500 acres. Repeatability and observing things over time is really important in agriculture. What I saw repeatedly in different situations, you know, different weather years on different soils with different age cherries in my case, I saw that the AEA program was having a positive impact on my business. And so I continued to use them. It's nice to work with a company that it's not a sales pressure. It really isn't. The idea sells itself. The products speak for themselves. And that's cool, cuz that's very different than most relationships that I have in agriculture. My goal is I want to always be excited to go to work. I want to have a challenge always in front of me. And quite honestly, AEA made it fun to be a farmer. It was a whole new way of looking at things, a whole new opportunity to learn more, to apply my trade as a farmer, and it keeps me engaged and thinking and makes me want to go to work every day.