gbreitkreutz@mnsoilhealth.org Grant & Dawn Breitkreutz run Stoney Creek Farm along the bluff of the Minnesota River near Redwood Falls, MN.  Over the past 20 years, they have converted a conventional crop and cow/calf operation into a multi-enterprise regenerative family business.  Their crops have changed from a corn and soybean rotation to at least a three-crop rotation, with covercrops incorporated whenever Read more...

estelling@mnsoilhealth.org I farm with my father and brother in and around Osakis, MN. We currently operate around 1500 acres consisting of corn, beans, alfalfa, and some small grains. Approximately 160 acres of our operation is certified organic. Three years ago we got out of dairy and now finish feeder cattle. We are in our second year of strip tilling and Read more...

tcotter@mnsoilhealth.org Tom is a fourth-generation farmer from southern Minnesota. In 1875 the land was first plowed and had continued in one way or another for the next 140 years. Tom grew up doing full tillage on all their acres. In the late 1990’s Tom’s Dad bought a tile pile and started trying Cover Crops. That is when Tom and his Read more...

tfick@mnsoilhealth.org My name is Tom Fick and I live on and operate the family farm I grew up on near Luverne. I raise corn, soybeans, oats & rye in a rotation on my farm. I also raise alfalfa and grass, which I bale into small square bales for the horse & hobby farmer market. I started incorporating cover crops into Read more...

bdwire@mnsoilhealth.org We farm in both Lincoln and Lyon counties, near Arco, MN.  My wife Kristi is a pharmacist, and I farm full time.  Kristi and I are both graduates of South Dakota State University.  We have two daughters, Sara and Madison, who are both in elementary school. We farm about 650 acres of cropland, and 150 acres of hay and Read more...

cschmidt@mnsoilhealth.org I farm in Murray county, near Garvin, MN.  I am a graduate of Pine Technical College.  I have four children: Brad, Jordan, Taylor and Lane, of which three are grown, pursuing or working in the agricultural field and the medical field with one of high school age. After 18 yrs of being in the construction industry and the “Green” Read more...

bpfarr@mnsoilhealth.org Brian was on the steering committee that helped shaped the Minnesota Soil Health Coalition and is also the Chair of the Board.  Brian grew up farming with his father in Redwood County and always knew he wanted to continue the family farm.  Brian and his father Bill, raise corn, soybeans, wheat, and rotationally graze cattle.  Brian started experimenting with Read more...