A southern Minnesota farmer is planting his 50th crop.

Jerry Demmer of Clarks Grove characterizes the changes he’s seen in farming as “all for the better” and points to conservation tillage as a reason why.

“How the farmers have grasped that and taken ahold in trying to hold down the soil erosion. And the next one would be technology.”

He tells Brownfield autosteer and variable rate applications have been game changers.

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