Staff
Casey Hoins - Coordinator
casey@nesoilhealth.org
Casey Hoins brings extensive experience in program and grant management across agriculture, water, and sustainability sectors. As a senior program manager she has led conservation-focused projects for nonprofits, municipalities, and agricultural clients across Nebraska and managed large USDA agriculture programs globally.
A member of a fifth-generation farm in central Nebraska, Hoins is deeply committed to supporting producers and rural communities. “I am passionate about providing a network of support to empower Nebraska producers on their soil health journey,” she says. “Building healthy soil has a positive impact on our communities and state as a whole.”
Hoins holds a Master of Science in Land Resources and Environmental Science from Montana State University, where she researched the effects of regenerative agriculture on soil and water health, and a Bachelor of Science in Biological Systems Engineering from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
Casey resides in Omaha with her husband, Zach, and three children
Brian Brhel
brian@nesoilhealth.org
Brian Brhel comes from a diverse family farm near Denton, NE where “out of the box” thinking was the norm. He has built his farming operation over the last 22 years with many “discoveries” through personal observation and learning from those who were willing to share. Drawing from his experience in AG retail and then wholesale ag distribution and now full-time farmer, he finds all roads still point to the design of nature as our best teacher. His farm consists of beef cattle as the cornerstone enterprise with other interests in cover crops seed production such as rye, oats, forage peas, buckwheat and hairy vetch. This also supplies seed for the grazing and cropping rotations. His focus is to use roots of living plants and cattle to improve the health of the soil that drives the farm economically while protecting the resource.