About this episode

Mark Jewell interviews Steve Polski about transforming waste into valuable resources in agriculture.

Join our champion program: mark@themomentumcompany.com Attend a Thriving Leader event: https://thriving-leader-2026.lovable.app/ Instagram: @the.momentum.company LinkedIn: /momentum-company In this episode of The Intentional Agribusiness Leader , Mark sits down with Steve Polski, CEO of PermanentFarming, for a conversation that challenges the way we think about waste, energy, and the future of food production. Steve defines intentional leadership as having the courage to challenge the status quo—and backing that conviction with action. In a world of rapid environmental, economic, and political change, doing what’s always been done is no longer enough. At PermanentFarming, that mindset is driving a bold idea: turning manure into multiple high-value outputs. By combining proven technologies—covered barns, anaerobic digestion, and soil amendment processing—the team is building a system that converts cattle waste into renewable natural gas and biological soil inputs. Not by reinventing agriculture, but by stacking existing innovations in a way that finally makes economic sense. The result is a true “and-and” model: Lower cost of gain for cattle feeders Renewable energy production…

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