A farmer in southwest Minnesota credits soil health practices with helping his crop pull through this year’s drought.

Bryan Biegler of Lake Wilson is a strip-till corn and soybean grower who uses cover crops on all his acres.

“Our crops seemed to hold together pretty well through the year even considering how dry it actually was, so we’re hoping it ends up panning out into some extra yield at the end of (harvest).”

He tells Brownfield from planting through August his area received less than seven inches of rain, but more than 10 inches has accumulated in September.

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