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service@strohfusstockfarm.com John keeps himself busy by operating three companies based out of his farm in Hastings, MN. Boarding & Stocking stocking horses as President of Strohfus Stock Farm, Founder and CEO of Field Theory a food company that partners with regenative producers to produce healthy nutrient-rich products AND managing Minnesota Hemp Farms, Inc. the 1st industrial scale producer of Hemp Read more...
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richard@mnsoilhealth.org Richard is a Conservation Specialist with MSHC who is dedicated to supporting regional farmers through farmer-to-farmer learning and recognizes the importance of building soil health to regenerate our farmlands. Richard is a Certified Crop Advisor and previously worked as an agronomist for a co-op in Minnesota. He has served in many leadership positions for the MN Corn Board and Read more...
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is the owner and operator of Craig LaPlante Farms in Crookston, MN. Craig operates a 700-acre mixed crop farm where he’s integrated full-season cover crops and no-till farming practices since 2004. He’s also started to bring multi-species livestock rotational grazing practices back to the farm. He works full time as a sales Agronomist off the farm for Hawkins Inc, covering Read more...
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tom.hartberg@gmail.com Tom uses regenerative farming by no-till/strip-trilling his corn/soybean rotation as well as utilizing cover crops, small grains, and livestock and all these practices continue to develop and evolve. In 1991 Tom started no-tilling as a matter of necessity when he couldn’t afford to upgrade his machinery. In ’93 he had to get a full-time job as well as farm. Read more...
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biggdoggagg@gmail.com Mark has been a certifed Crop Advisor since 1995 and has 43 years in the agricultural industry from his time in Grain Elevation, Running his own company founded in 2001. He is currently farming 67 acres using no-till, cover-crops, diversified crops, and is looking to introduce animals to graze his cover crops. Mark started to look into soil health Read more...
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uderman3@gmail.com Alex started with reduced tillage in 2016 and no-till soybeans. In 2021 he became MN Water Quality Certified and started no-tilling his Corn acres. Recently Alex started incorporating cover crops. He has seen great results in improving his soil health: 1.5 million worms per acre and improved soil structure, worm castings, and middens. Alex became a mentor because he Read more...
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jlmeyer@kmtel.com John currently has all of my 400+ cropland acres seeded down to perennial forages and is using it either for daily moved adaptively managed rotational pasturing or hay for his 270 head custom grazed beef herd, and a100 head C/c beef herd of his own, which he directs to market as 100% Regeneratively Pasture-Raised Grass-Fed and Finished Beef as Read more...
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Karl has been strip-tilling ahead of corn since the fall of 2018, and no tilling soybeans since Spring of 2019. He started using cover crops in 2019 as well. He has also been aerial applying cover crops recently, but has drilled in cover crops after harvest in soybean stubble as well with good results. Karl says, “Once I attended a Read more...
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Bob currently grazes cattle and goats on two different farms and raises all feed (hay and corn silage) for brood cow herd and goats, while buying grain mix for youngstock from a local elevator. He calves his crossbred cows (65) year around and sells meat directly to consumers. He hopes to do that same with his goat herd in the Read more...
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I currently manage about 400 acres of open pasture land for cattle, 300 acres of woods for meat goat production, and about 460 acres of row crop/hay production. We practice adaptive managed grazing with cow/calf pairs, owned stockers, and goats. Raise pastured pork mostly in our wooded areas while strategically moving them around to manage invasive specifies such as multi-flora Read more...
