# 432 João Valente - 26 years no-till, outcompeting monocultures, and now teaching his neighbours

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Podcast: [Investing in Regenerative Agriculture and Food](https://stenobird.com/podcast/investing-in-regenerative-agriculture-and-food-327782)
Published: 2026-07-14T15:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://investinginregenerativeagriculture.com/joao-valente
Audio file: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1154870/episodes/19474066-432-joao-valente-26-years-no-till-outcompeting-monocultures-and-now-teaching-his-neighbours.mp3
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Duration seconds: 4438

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João Valente, owner of Monte Silveira, took over his family farm in central-eastern Portugal that was running on tobacco, broccoli, and melons with sixty-five people employed year-round, the rotation designed entirely around subsidies. When the tobacco subsidy disappeared at the end of the 1990s, he found himself with a question: what does this land actually want to be? That question led him to organic agriculture conferences in Portugal, to a magazine showing no-till, to a German seed compan...

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