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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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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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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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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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I have a passion for farming and have been involved in it my whole life. I also have a background in farm business management. I love to learn and do all I can to invest into the business, while helping others around me achieve success. Most of our farm is corn and soybeans with a few acres of alfalfa and 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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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...
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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...
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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...
