Ed Hegland farms in western Minnesota at Appleton. In the Talking Conservation podcast on YouTube, Hegland highlights his conservation evolution, including strip-till, no-till and cover crops. “The easiest thing to start for me was I started no-tilling soybeans,” said Hegland. “That would have been in the mid-1990s when I bought an air seeder and that was just a gateway into it. It’s pretty simple to do and I saved so much horsepower, fuel and labor.” Hegland is also part of the Farmers for Soil Health program. Talking Conservation is a collaboration of the Conservation Technology Information Center, the Minnesota Soybean Growers Association and the Red River Farm Network. For more information, visit https://farmersforsoilhealth.com/.
