Otto Farms, Inc.

Otto Farms is located in the Center of Redwood County MN. Lance and Leon "Ridge Till" farm 1075 acres of corn and soybeans between the towns of Redwood Falls, Wabasso, Wanda and Morgan. They also have a few holstein steers they sell locally for beef.

We pride ourselves in being good stewards of the land. Our farming practices conserve both soil and water. Ridge Till farming allows us to farm efficiently with less horsepower and without the fall push to get the final tillage done.

Ridging also lends itself to precision farming with controlled traffic and deep placed fertilizer. Fields are grid sampled every 4 years by a local independent crop consultant. Fertilizer is applied with a Flexicoil 1720 air cart that is controlled by GPS for precise placement of fertilizer where it is needed.

In 2005 we made the jump to a John Deere Autotrac system on our 8310T track tractor. We are working our ridges down and starting over with the automatic steering so the controlled traffic pattern is now precisely space and perfectly straight. This process should have been done in 2 years but it turned into 3 because the Deere system was not precise enough in 2005.