Articles by Lauren
Cover Crops
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…
Cover Crops
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…
Cover Crops
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…
Our Farms
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…
Cover Crops
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…
Our Farms
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…