[email protected] Vance has been using No-Till/Reduced-Till since 2010 and has been using with cover crops and green manures since 2015. He’s used nurse crops in sugarbeets since the early 2000’s and began planting soybeans green about 2019. Since that time, his operations have gone to Minimum-Till/No-Till and cover across 75% of the farm. Vance started with reduced/No-till because he had Read more...

[email protected] John Strohfus is the Founder and CEO of Minnesota Hemp Farms, Inc. (dba Field Theory Foods) based in Hastings, MN. He is a farmer and marketer of food ingredient products in bulk wholesale channels as well as the retail brand Field Theory™. John was a graduate of St. Cloud State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing Read more...

[email protected] Richard Rohrer is a Conservation Specialist with the Minnesota Soil Health Coalition 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 Read more...

Craig is the Owner/Operator of Craig LaPlante Farms, Crookston, MN, a 700-acre mixed crop farm, integrating full-season cover crops, and no-till farming practices, since 2004.  He has started to bring multi-species livestock and rotational grazing practices back to the farm.  He also works full-time as a sales Agronomist off the farm for Hawkins Inc, covering the United States and Canadian Read more...

[email protected] 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, and diversified crops, and is looking to introduce animals to graze his cover crops. Mark started to look into soil Read more...

[email protected] 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...

[email protected] 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...

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...

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...