In the Boekelheide farm shop, a mission statement hangs on the wall above semitrucks and combines.
Alex Boekelheide checks his oat stand in a field on his family's Northville, S.D., farm. With land stewardship in mind, the Boekelheide family developed a field management plan that involved no-till/minimal tillage and adding oats followed by cover crops to a percentage of the farm’s corn and soybean rotation.
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A before aerial photo showing saline patches in a corn and soybean field on the Boekelheide Northville, S.D., farm.
An after photo, showing the positive impact adding oats (golden portion of image) and a perennial mix of saline tolerant grasses (green portion of image) had on crop acers. This field on the Boekelheide Northville, S.D., farm used to be plagued by saline patches.





