Case Studies

It’s widely known among the industry that potatoes need high levels of Ca to achieve maximum yield and quality. However,…

Calcium (Ca) uptake and soil health represent two of the biggest challenges that the potato industry faces these days, and…

Needing more hay for his beef cattle, northwestern Illinois beef producer Randy Adolph was ready for a different approach. “I…

Phil Schwantz is a third-generation farmer who’s proud to be the steward of his grandfathers’ farmland. He lives on the…

Milk prices are low, but to improve dairy farm margins in challenging times, dairies should look “lower” to improve profitability…

Shullsburg, Wisconsin, farmer Chad Gleason is enthusiastic about everything he does — from managing his 400-head steer finishing operation, to…

Forty-year farmer and Marine veteran Gary Rademacher never stops improving. When he first started farming near Holdingford, Minnesota in the…

The Hunger Task Force works to end hunger in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, metro area. Their farm, located just southwest of…

A New Jersey native — with no farmers in his family tree — is now a successful beef breeder and…

Twenty-five years ago, when Gary Manternach first began working with Midwestern BioAg, few would have predicted that topics like sulfur,…

Todd Schroeder set a goal to win the World Dairy Expo’s Forage Analysis Superbowl contest in 10 years. With the…

Kristen Kordet was working as a restaurant server when she founded a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm in 2004. Since…

Forages play many important roles on the farm — as cash crops, livestock feeds, and pastures, and in healthy soil…