2025 Winter Conference
Reconnect with Nature using Regenerative AG
Join us for ProfitProAG’s 2025 Winter Conference
This year’s conference aims to empower attendees with ideas, strategies, and tools to drive positive change on the land and ultimately on our heath. Farming has gone the direction of higher yields at the expense of soil and human health. It is time to reconnect with nature and focus on soil health, prioritizing nutrient-rich crops.
“The AG world is always changing,” said Kent Friedrichsen of Perry, Iowa, who has been working with ProfitProAG for more than 30 years. “Jim Ladlie and his team at ProfitProAG have their finger on the pulse of ag and where it’s headed, and they bring in some of the best speakers I’ve ever heard.” Friedrichsen commented after attending last year’s winter conference.
Be patient as we build our program for this year’s winter conference. The links will be updated as soon as the schedule and brochure are finalized.
Speakers
We will be featuring knowledgeable speakers who will bring you the understanding you need on soil health implementation, how it affects human health, and how regenerative agriculture effects you, your farming operation, and ultimately, your profitability.
Tom Cotter
Cotter Farms
Tom is a fourth-generation farmer from Austin, Minnesota, who has embraced cover crops and many other regenerative ag practices in the past 25 years. His practical message of how to farm smarter (and more profitably) was a huge hit at last year’s ProfitProAG Winter Conference.
He started doing soil health practices in 1998. Since then, he has reduced tillage, diversified cash crops and cover crops, switched from grain finished beef to grass finished and converted 40% of his acres to Organic.
“Set goals, follow soil health principles, minimize soil disturbance, focus on biodiversity, support continuous living roots in the soil as long as possible each year, grade your crop’s success and keep learning,” Tom says.
Jolene Carlson
Sustainable Farmer, Minnesota National Guard Member, Minnesota Soil Health Coalition Board Member
What if nutrient-dense foods could heal people and the environment? It’s not only possible but a reality when you focus on soil health and farm nature’s way.
Jolene is passionate about educating people about the importance of nutrient-dense foods and embracing regenerative ag practices that create an environment for healthy soils, crops, livestock and people.
Jolene, who spent 20 years as a high school science teacher, has a master’s degree in education in environmental and natural sciences, as well as a master’s degree in human nutrition and functional medicine. “The more we can understand what the land is trying to tell us, especially signs and symptoms of use and abuse, the more we can address the root cause of how to best support the land and adapt to what it needs,” says Jolene.
Ray Archuleta
Certified Professional Soil Scientist
Ray teaches and guides, focusing on the care of the earth from a deeply personal perspective. With a mission to teach Regenerative Agriculture, Ray focuses on a framework of ecological and spiritual renewal.
At its core, “regeneration” is Restoring God’s Kingdom on Earth.
Ray mixes the study of the environment and the study of God going back to when these two issues were never separated.
Mark Gutierrez
MN Soil Health Coalition Executive Director
Rainfall simulator
Mark is an experienced leader with a demonstrated history of working in Agriculture. He will be demonstrating the rainfall simulator to show the effects that different grazing practices have on water retention and erosion.
Dr. Jim Ladlie
Owner – ProfitProAG
Cell – (507) 383-1325
Office – (507) 373-2550
jladlie@profitproag.com
Jim has spent a lifetime helping growers increase sustainability and profitability by adapting a regenerative approach to farming. With a PhD in Crop Science from Michigan State University and over 40 years in the agriculture industry. Dr. Ladlie’s foresight, research, knowledge and creative solutions have led to a proven crop management system that produces healthy crops/animals and manages risks while maximizing profits.
There will be more speaker information coming soon.
