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...

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...

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...

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...

tfick@mnsoilhealth.org My name is Tom Fick and I live on and operate the family farm I grew up on near Luverne. I raise corn, soybeans, oats & rye in a rotation on my farm. I also raise alfalfa and grass, which I bale into small square bales for the horse & hobby farmer market. I started incorporating cover crops into Read more...

bdwire@mnsoilhealth.org We farm in both Lincoln and Lyon counties, near Arco, MN.  My wife Kristi is a pharmacist, and I farm full time.  Kristi and I are both graduates of South Dakota State University.  We have two daughters, Sara and Madison, who are both in elementary school. We farm about 650 acres of cropland, and 150 acres of hay and Read more...

cschmidt@mnsoilhealth.org I farm in Murray county, near Garvin, MN.  I am a graduate of Pine Technical College.  I have four children: Brad, Jordan, Taylor and Lane, of which three are grown, pursuing or working in the agricultural field and the medical field with one of high school age. After 18 yrs of being in the construction industry and the “Green” Read more...