Brett Margraf

Most farmers are addicted to tillage, the Margraf’s are addicted to growing healthy soils.  Before the phrase healthy soils was coined, Bret and his father Gene, were adopting practices like cover crops and nutrient management while adding diversity to their farms.  Recognizing the value of manure and cover crops together, they continued adding to the rotation at a time when most other Northwest Ohio farmers were reducing to a corn/soybean rotation.  The results of being different are paying off, most noticeably, organic matter levels that have doubled in a decade and increasing yields on marginal soils.   The latest effort in the chase for healthy soils has been the addition of rotational grazing, although small in scale its outcome will be huge.   

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