The Pat Miletich Show | The Toxic Truth About Modern Agriculture | Monte Bottens

Pat Miletich sits down with Monte Bottens, fifth-generation Iowa farmer and founder of Ag Solutions Network, Cal Ag Solutions, and Grateful Graze, for a deep conversation on how modern agriculture got so broken and what it actually takes to fix it. Monte has spent decades working both conventional and organic systems, and he pulls no punches on where the industry went wrong. This is the guy who first gave Pat a platform to speak to farmers, and their back-and-forth covers the full chain from soil to human health. In this episode: Why the "green revolution" of the 60s and 70s created decades of compounding unintended consequences The soggy sauerkraut story: how glyphosate travels through corn, chicken litter, and cabbage to kill fermentation, and why humans fail to think below the surface Why USDA organic is really just "conventional with fewer inputs" and why regenerative is different Nitrogen abuse: wrong time, wrong rate, wrong placement, and how cutting 20% solves 80% of Iowa's water quality crisis The five soil health principles and why "shovel and shadow" are a farmer's best tools Cover crops, no-till, and using cattle as a bison substitute to regenerate land Erosion, dust storms, desertification, and how bare ground changes local climate The crop insurance, ethanol, and rented-land system that traps farmers in commodity thinking Selenium, iodine, and the nutrient story behind rising illness Sponsored by Soil Saviors (soilsaviors.org), Cell Saviors (cellsaviors.org, promo code PAT10 for 10% off)