Facilitators

Jim Johnson

Product Delivery Manager

Jim Johnson provides regenerative ranching consultation and course facilitation alongside his role as product delivery manager at Noble Research Institute, where he has worked since 1999. Between 2000 and 2020, Jim consulted with over 2,000 producers, consistently adding 100 additional producers yearly. In 2011, Johnson also taught a class in Iraq for the USDA on crop production and management with a focus on conservation. Before his work at Noble, he spent two years working for a large, diverse vegetable farm that sold directly to consumers and restaurants. After receiving a bachelor’s degree in soil science from the University of Illinois and a master’s degree in agronomy from Oklahoma State University, Jim worked in various plant breeding programs in Nebraska, Texas and Oklahoma. His interests are helping ranchers use soil health principles and ecosystem processes to improve their land. Johnson owns and operates a cattle ranch with his family in central Oklahoma, where he has raised beef cattle, horses, goats, chickens and pecans.

At Noble, Jim focuses on soil health, cover crops and no-till.

Jim Johnson