Erik joined Trace in January, 2019 as the Agronomic Services Manager. He is responsible for helping customers interpret and understand Trace’s results and insights, so they can make impactful decisions.
Keith Berns combines over 20 years of no-till farming with 10 years of teaching Agriculture and Computers. Along with his brother Brian, they no-till and cover crop more than 2,000 acres of irrigated and dryland corn, soybeans, rye, triticale, peas, sunflowers, and buckwheat in South Central Nebraska, They also co-own and operates Green Cover Seed, one of the major cover crop seed providers and educators in the United States. Through Green Cover Seed, Keith has experimented with over 100 different cover crop types and hundreds of mixes planted into various situations and has learned a gre
Jason Mauck farms in Gaston, Indiana with his family. Jason is passionately curious when it comes to everything Ag. His company, Constant Canopy, is looking at agriculture through a different lens with the next generation in mind. He believes that the sharing economy will transform every industry, including agriculture in the next few years. He wants to create more regenerative solutions to produce and share food, energy and nutrients
Michael Phillips is renowned for helping people grow healthy fruit using herbal protocols. The community orchard movement that he helped found at GrowOrganicApples.com provides a full immersion into the holistic approach to orcharding. His Lost Nation Orchard is part of a medicinal herb farm in northern New Hampshire. Michael is the author of The Apple Grower and The Holistic Orchard which recently received Garden Book of the Year honors from the American Horticultural Society.
Ian and Di farm approximately 18,000 hectares of land in Western Australia’s central wheatbelt, around 250 kilometres north east of Perth. After years of conventional farming, the Haggerty’s realized that their system was vulnerable to dry seasons. Input costs were steadily increasing without corresponding increases in productivity. Soil tests showed adequate nutrient levels, but tissue tests revealed nutrients were not getting to plants in appropriate balance, despite a comprehensive mineral fertilizer program.
Loran Steinlage Owner/Operator of FLOLOfarms with wife Brenda Specializes in adapting practices and equipment to our unique area on the edge of the Driftless area.
The Steinlages are evolving to companion/relay no-till cropping system which is focused on cycling plants to keep a living plant in the soil at all times,to help aid in moisture management and weed suppression. Currently producing corn, soybeans, cereal rye, winter wheat, malt barley and buckwheat. And recently took on a role with DAWN Equipment/Underground Ag as an Infield Practical Field Engineer.
Doug Peterson has been an NRCS employee for over 30 years. He started his career as a Soil Scientist. He has been a District Conservationist in both a grassland based county in south Missouri and a large cropland county in north Missouri. He has also been a State Grassland Conservationist and a State Soil Health Specialist.
Lucinda Stuenkel was suddenly promoted to Farm Manager in 2010 when her husband and his brother/farm partner were killed in an accident. Shortly after her husband’s death, she used his ticket to attended a workshop by Josh Dukart at Arbor Day Farms that used the Allan Savory book and workbook. The biggest decision was to update the farm infrastructure so that women and children could operate the farm.
Worldwide interest in cover crops continues to grow at a healthy pace. The industry is maturing and seed availability has grown steadily along with demand. But there is still a scarcity of solid information on how to best utilize and profit from all the soil-building benefits that cover crops have to offer.
