Producer Profile: A South Dakota Farm Built on Stewardship
A mission statement hangs on the wall of the Boekelheide farm shop in Northville, South Dakota: leave everything in a better way than we found it. For fifth-generation farmer Alex Boekelheide, holding to that has meant adding oats and cover crops to a corn and soybean rotation to reverse spreading saline patches, without losing sight of the margin. AgSpire's Covering America program helps make the change pencil out.