Episode 176: Vertical Integration for Regenerative Farmers with David Stelzer

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David Stelzer is the founder of Azure Standard, a company born from a 1970s family health crisis that inspired a switch to organic farming . When a major processor dropped their organic grain for conventional wheat in the 1980s, David began delivering his own crops directly to co-ops in a pickup truck . This grew into a massive independent distribution network that now manages roughly 12,000 SKUs, connecting growers directly to consumers . In the field of regenerative agriculture, David focuses on vertical integration to bypass the expensive and often unethical mainstream middleman . By managing the farming, processing, and distribution in-house, he is able to pay farmers higher premiums…