Producer Features

Q. What is your background in the forage industry?

A. I grew up on a dairy farm in central Minnesota.

What is quality forage production?

“We like to have a nice, green end product that was cut at the right time and stored properly.

Nearly three years ago, when Travis Armitage, Lynn Sedelbauer and Aaron Kidd came together to form Trinity Farms, the idea was to combine forces to utilize everyone’s strengths.

Jim Howard of Nebraska is a full-time life insurance salesman and a minister for a small local church. But on the side he puts up prairie hay. “I look to cut hay in places where most people wouldn’t put it up. If I can drive my tractor there, I can put up hay there,” Howard says.

What is the most important part of alfalfa production?
“The harvest because that is when most things go wrong.

As long-time stewards of the environment, farmers have always worked to produce quality products while taking care to preserve the quality of their resources for the next year and next generation.