Joel Williams
Joel Williams
Main Expertise
- Soil Chemistry & Properties
- Mineral Balance
- Foliar application
- Plant & soil analysis
- Compost
- Plant species diversity
Affiliated Organisation(s)
Integrated Soil
Language(s)
- English
Based in
Canada
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My journey of becoming a regenerative agronomist
Coming from Australia, studied agricultural science with a focus on soil chemistry
Worked for 5 years in Australia for a company focusing on biostimulants, biofertilizers, and foliar fertilisation
Gained a lot of experience with a broad range of locations, crops and different framing systems.
Moved to the UK to start working more on soil food web investigations
- Focus on biology, biological analysis, and assessment
- Making compost, compost extracts, compost tea and compost applications
Started to work for a University in London, to educate young adults while creating a university market garden
Then Joel went back to university for a master degree in food policy
- Focused on intercropping
Moved to Canada 8 years ago
- Started to build “Integrated Soil” full-time
- Focusing on being primarily an independent education and a bit of consulting
Delivering educational workshops, conferences and seminars
Main Challenges for farmers’ transition
Fairly input-intensive and dependent farming involves a higher risk for farmers, therefore the main question arises:
“How much and when to cut down on N-fertilisation while managing the involved risks”
Success stories
Educational: Farmers appreciate the delivery, level of detail and understandability which results in successful learning experiences
Agronomic: Reduction of soil-applied nitrogen by around 50%
One principle you wish more people understood
Livestock integration: Integrating animals in crop production can help in many ways. It boosts fertility, reduces pests, diseases and the connected fertiliser use, as well as increases overall resilience.
“Regenerative Agriculture is a farmer-driven, peer-to-peer, bottom-up movement that empowers farmers to lead with system thinking, ecological farm design, and shared learning, creating a resilient future beyond a centralised top-down dependency”
— What regenerative agriculture means to me
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