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South central Minnesota farmer increasing soybean acres

A south-central Minnesota farmer plans to increase soybean acres this year.

Lawrence Sukalski farms in Martin County near the Iowa border.

“We are planting more soybeans because we sold some awhile ago and it was a pretty good price.  Something that we certainly didn’t expect.”

He says the additional soybeans will be grown on continuous corn acres.

“We bought ourselves a no-till drill, so some of these fields that maybe need some no-till (is where) we’ll start doing some no-till soybeans in corn.  Trying to be more friendly to the soils.

Sukalski tells Brownfield corn is still king in Martin County, which boasts two ethanol plants and more than 20 percent of Minnesota’s annual hog production.