Regenerative Agriculture & The Future of Food: How One CEO Is Turning Waste Into Wealth | with Greg Watts

What if the answer to our farming crisis has been sitting in our waste all along? In this episode of In The Trenches, Hanif Ibrahim sits down with Greg Watts, CEO of C-Wise, for a fascinating conversation at the intersection of environmental science, agricultural economics, and the kind of systems-level thinking that can genuinely change industries. Greg's company turns organic byproducts — things most people would call waste — into high-performance compost at scale. The result? Farmers who reduce their reliance on synthetic fertilisers, improve their soil health, and unlock better yields. What Greg unpacks: - How decades of modern agriculture have stripped carbon from our soils — and what that really means - Why synthetic fertilisers are a short-term fix with long-term consequences - The science and economics of compost as a genuine alternative - Why the age of biology is replacing the age of chemistry in farming - The commercial realities farmers are actually facing right now - How waste-to-resource business models are creating new economic opportunities - Why fixing our soils is ultimately about fixing our food system — and our future This is a conversation about business, science, and the systems that feed us — and what it will take to repair them. Powered by The Finance Agency — salary-paid finance brokers for forward-thinking business owners. financeagency.com.au #RegenerativeAgriculture #FutureOfFood #SustainableFarming #AgriBusiness #BusinessPodcast #InTheTrenches #SoilHealth #CircularEconomy #EnvironmentalBusiness #Entrepreneurship