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Producer Dan Buerkle of Fallon County has long been a community leader in regenerative agriculture. Perhaps decades of his ancestors' land management practices provided his motivation. "Dad was an early adapter and not afraid of risk," states Dan. "But this was tired old land and farmed for a long, long time. I'm not bad-mouthing my ancestors, but we all know back when fertility and farming practices were less," states Dan. "People back then would not break the bank to buy fertilizer or pesticides, and weeds were just eating us up. ose were just the farming practices of the time." Dan returned to his family's land aer college graduation in the 1970s. He and his wife bought three additional sections to add to the hard-worked land he inherited. Today, Dan is president of the family corporation B&B Farms and an avid practitioner of soil health principles. "Dan was certainly a pioneer in the county working with no-till. We see across the landscape not near the erosion we would have seen," states former NRCS Supervisory District Conservationist Ann Fischer. "is year is one of the worst droughts in a lot of people's memory, in this county for sure," continues Fischer. "I would say if we were to have seen this land 20 years ago before the advent of no-till, it would have been horrifying." B&B Farms is a county leader in regenerative agriculture. NRCS Supervisory District Conservationist Ann Fischer and landowner Dan Buerkle check the root systems of growing plants in a field of corn planted as part of crop rotation system on B&B Farms. 41 farm406

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