How much did they save on nitrogen inputs?

John KempfRegenerative Agriculture Entrepreneur

Navigating Economic Pressures in Tree Fruit with Sam Goodwin

28 Aug 2025 · 1 min

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Sam Goodwin explains how regenerative soil management cut nitrogen costs by 10% in one year. He's also tracked three cycles of organic price premiums over 25 years: high prices draw new growers, oversupply crashes premiums, then contraction brings recovery.

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About 10% (example reported after one year of regenerative practices).

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My expectation is that as we get the soil in balance and we get better at regenerative, we're going to have less inputs that we're going to have to put in because we're going to have healthier soil that's generating its own nitrogen. For example, we did save about 10% on our nitrogen inputs last. After one year of experience, we'll follow our SAP analysis and we'll decide this, you know, this spring or the spring of what we do. But continuing down that, continuing down that path, I think there's some savings to. By not applying stuff you don't need once you build confidence in the system, you know, organically, there was a premium because of the belief in organic production early on and that, or as supply of organic has outpaced demand, that premium shrinking. And over the last 25 years, we've seen this. It's like a roller coaster. We've seen the wave where the prices look organic, prices look great, a bunch of new farmers jump in, supply goes up, prices shrink down to near conventional pricing. A bunch of people lose interest because the premium's not there. They jump out, the prices grow back because now supply and demand are back aligned. We've seen this is our third cycle of.