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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

lpetersen@mnsoilhealth.org Lance started strip tilling in 2011 (spring coulter strip till with dry fertilizer), planter fertilizer as well as the majority of his acres being corn on corn with some in a corn/soybean rotation.  Lance has experience with coulter banding urea for corn sidedress utilizing an air cart, became Ag Water Quality Certified in 2017, and has been experimenting with 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...