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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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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...
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We are primarily a corn/soybean row crop operation utilizing cover crop on all acres. We have a cow/calf herd that grazes crop stubble between crop seasons. We do not use any pre-emergence herbicides and have reduced post-emergence herbicide and fertilizer rates. We started the latest chapter in our journey by converting to strip-till and adding cover crop in 2017. We Read more...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
