bryberg@mnsoilhealth.org Brian farms over 5,000 acres and began using strip till in 2015 and also uses vertical till for soybeans going into cornstalks.  Many of his acres are seeded with covers using predominately cereal rye and also uses them after sugarbeet harvest going into soybeans.  Brian noticed improvements in his soil structure just after 2 years of cereal rye after Read more...

bbiegler@mnsoilhealth.org Bryan has been farming for 28 years in Murray County, Minnesota.  He has strip tilled corn for 8 years mainly in the fall and has been no-tilling soybeans for 8 years.  Bryan has been using cover crops in his corn/sb rotation for 7 years including early season and mid August – mid September with a high clearance sprayer set Read more...

lpetersen@mnsoilhealth.org Lance started strip tilling in 2011 (spring coulter strip till with dry fertilizer), planter fertilizer as well as the majority of his acres being corn on corn with some in a corn/soybean rotation.  Lance has experience with coulter banding urea for corn sidedress utilizing an air cart, became Ag Water Quality Certified in 2017, and has been experimenting with Read more...

mtiffany@mnsoilhealth.org Matt grows corn, soybeans for seed, and sweetcorn for over 19 years and have always looked for ways to do things better. The short season soybeans and sweetcorn he grows provides a great opportunity for cover crops and Matt has enjoyed the success of that for many years. He’s in his 3rd year of strip tilling after soybeans and Read more...

jackermann@mnsoilhealth.org Jerry Ackermann has been farming with his wife Nancy for the past 39 years near Lakefield, in southwestern Minnesota. They are extremely active in on-the-farm research and test plots. They farm approximately 1200 acres with 1/3 corn, 1/3 soybeans and 1/3 alfalfa as a cash crop. Along with the Heron Lake Watershed and Extended Ag Services, they have participated Read more...

rmaurer@mnsoilhealth.org My name is Rick Maurer, my wife Kim and I farm near Morgan in Redwood County. We own a wean to finish hog operation and work with the Pipestone System. We no-till 100% of our soybeans in ten inch rows. We are also experimenting with cover crops seeded into our corn. Read more...

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...

jolene@mnsoilhealth.org Jolene brings a wealth of experience including eight years as a nutritionist, military Commander, master gardener, four terms as Secretary and President on the Nature Center Board, a member of leadership council for School Yard Garden Coalition and a Crow River SFA Board Member. Jolene spent 20 years as a science educator and has a Masters in Ed in Natural 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...