Growing cotton and onions with AEA's Regenerative Soil Primer | Regenerative farmer James Johnson

When the consultants actually brought out and said, hey, we want you to apply this soil primer, the initial shock of that is, wow, that soil primer is expensive. But when you get to the end of the season and you see what other inputs you saved versus that soil primer cost, it's cheaper. The entire fertility program on this cotton crop was less than $140. We started using the soil primer last fall, and we didn't tell field hands, field labor, that we had done anything different. They came to me and said, look at the difference in the way the texture of this soil is and how much easier the crop comes out and cleaner the crop comes out. DEA taught me, really one of the biggest things that we can do is cut out unnecessary inputs. So especially in fertility, there's a lot of things that we were applying just because it was what dad did and what Granddad did. And it doesn't have to be that way.