2025 MWCG Schedule

Kyle Nilsestuen farms with his wife, Leni, and two sons near Arcadia, Wisconsin, growing corn, soy, forages and wheat and tending their Red Angus cow-calf herd. In addition to working on his own farm, Kyle is an ag chemical inspector for the Minnesota Department of Agriculture, an LG seed dealer and does private agronomy consulting and custom baling. He also serves as president of the Trempealeau County Farm Bureau and a member of Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation’s Sustainability Committee.

Barry Bubolz is a field coordinator with the Wisconsin USDA-NRCS Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Demonstration Farm Network. He works extensively with dairy and row crop farmers in northeast Wisconsin to adopt innovative cropping system, cover crop and manure management practices that improve water quality, as well as overall farm resiliency and profitability. Barry earned his soil science degree from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. 

Jamie Patton is the Wisconsin soil health coordinator with USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service. She provides outreach and technical support about soil health-promoting practices to farmers, agency staff and community members across Wisconsin. Jamie earned her soil science degrees from Iowa State University and Oklahoma State University. 

Michael Dolan is the seventh generation of his family farming in southwest Wisconsin. He runs Seven Seeds Organic Farm alongside his brother, Frank Stroncek, wife Chloe, and parents Lea and Greg. Together, they keep chickens, turkeys, pigs and 100% grass-fed beef cattle that are rotationally raised. They also grow corn, soybeans, wheat, rye and alfalfa. Seven Seeds Organic Farm sells its small grains to Meadowlark Farm and Mill with livestock feed as a back-up option. 

Rochelle and Evan Schnadt operate Heartland Craft Grains, a farmstead mill in Lodi, Wisconsin. Passionate about producing delicious grains raised through regenerative practices, the Schnadts grow a wide range of varieties chosen for their flavor and nutrition, including blue and polenta corn, ancient grains like spelt and einkorn and modern varieties of oats and wheat. By milling and marketing their own grains, Evan and Rochelle offer high-quality, locally grown flours and grain berries to people across Wisconsin.

Daniel Olson is a seventh-generation dairy farmer from Lena, Wisconsin. He is also the owner of Forage Innovations, a forage consulting business that works with over 800,000 cows in 26 states. He is a busy speaker and writer who enjoys developing innovative solutions to challenges in agriculture. 

Josh Hiemstra operates Hiemstra Dairy Farm with his wife, children and father near Brandon, Wisconsin. The Hiemstras farm 790 acres, growing corn, soybeans, wheat, alfalfa and other forage mixes. In addition to milking 135 Holsteins, they also finish 150 head of Angus cross-bred beef cattle. 

Kyle Nilsestuen farms with his wife, Leni, and two sons near Arcadia, Wisconsin, growing corn, soy, forages and wheat and tending their Red Angus cow-calf herd. In addition to working on his own farm, Kyle is an ag chemical inspector for the Minnesota Department of Agriculture, an LG seed dealer and does private agronomy consulting and custom baling. He also serves as president of the Trempealeau County Farm Bureau and a member of Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation’s Sustainability Committee.

Scott Schulz and his family farm on 200 acres near Watertown, Wisconsin. Their practices include rotating corn, soybeans and wheat with diverse cover crop mixes – including rye, oats, vetch and red clover – between each cash crop. Scott raises 30 beef cows in his cow-calf operation that he grazes on cover crops. He also bales covers, like his clover, for feed.