Lauren and her husband, Bryan, grow corn and soybeans on their farm in Lake Wilson, Minnesota. She and her husband have three children.
Thinking Ahead to Harvest
The days are getting shorter, the nights a bit cooler as every day passes here in Minnesota. When the days get shorter, the beans start…
Sustainable Spraying
It has been a pretty uneventful summer for our soybeans. We had a late start planting with cool, wet weather, but got heat and sunshine…
Biegler Farms, Lake Wilson, Minnesota
Last post, we had just finished planting soybeans. After planting, we love to see a little moisture and some heat to help with emergence and…
Multiple Planting Options to Meet Our Sustainability Goal
June 16, 2017 May continued to provide weather challenges for planting. It was so wet and cold at points, we had to halt planting for…
The Crops I Plant but Don’t Harvest … and how they protect the land and water
They say a picture’s worth a thousand words, so I think the photo you see above explains why I plant cover crops better than I…
GROUND WORK – Snow Puts Planting on Hold
It may look like a holiday card – but this is a view of our backyard on May 1. Elsewhere in the U.S., farmers have…
GROUND WORK – Preplanting
Weather in southwest Minnesota has been less than ideal so far. Mother Nature has kept us out of the field, and we are waiting for…