kruser1980@gmail.com Our family farm currently utilizes strip till, no-till, cover crops, reduced and prescription fertilizer and herbicide application. We rotational graze our cow/calf beef herd. Our confinement hog finishing manure is tested and injected using strip till unites mounted on our liquid manure tank. We have two creeks, a lake, an open drainage ditch, and over 220 acres of woodland, Read more...

bhilbertfarms@gmail.com My wife Jodie and I farm 600 acres in a corn-soybean rotation near Franklin MN. We tried our first cover crops in 2016 and transitioned acres to no-till with cover crops over the next 2 years. We are 100% converted now and working to improve diversity with early interseeded mixes in corn and a mix following soybeans. We plant Read more...

myronsyl@gmail.com Myron has over 25 years of no till experience, including set up of equipment and as well as which options are available. He also has 10 years of experience with cover crops including plane, frost seed, and drilling after harvest. In addition, Myron has more than 10 years of experience with nutrient reduction/efficiency, GPS application and analysis, participation with Read more...

mseifert@mnsoilhealth.org Michael currently operates a 100 acre conventional crop farm located just south of Jordan, MN.  He farms alongside his father and together comprise the 3rd and 4th generations of our family who have made a life on this little corner of the world. About 70 acres of the farm is in cropland, with the balance being pasture, wetland, and Read more...

bnere@mnsoilhealth.org Brad farms with his daughter and son-in-law on their farm, Horizon Farms, in Renville County.  They strip till all of their corn and apply nitrogen in the spring, going on with the planter and is side dressed.  Cover crops are planted at side dressing, if needed they Y drop at tassel as well.  Soybeans are all no-tilled and cover Read more...

mtabert@mnsoilhealth.org Benjamin & Mikayla raise corn, soybeans, wheat, peola (field peas and canola intercrop), sunflowers, tall fescue (turf seed), hay (mostly alfalfa), and rye for cover crop seed.  They work to integrate cover crops on almost every acre every year.   They interseed covers into corn and sunflowers and trying it on soybeans and plant diverse mixes as much as possible 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...

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...