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The Crop Year Is Above Average…

November 9, 2020

A Good Crop …but not outstanding, Trent Brandenburg sums it up. The excellent harvest weather enabled smooth field work. The dry days helped field drydown which lowers post-harvest cost for drying. Trent is happy with his yields. The nice fall weather enabled fall tillage to proceed rapidly. Trent is done with his fall field work. […]

Please Give Us Just a Handful of Rain

July 20, 2012 The Field Report
Please Give Us Just a Handful of Rain

With the extensive drought from California to Ohio and corn prices soaring to over $8 a bushel, Trent is one of thousands of farmers who very seriously want rain. Trent tries to look for positive things to offset the pervasive gloom he hears from older farm operators. He says, ” The fields that are getting […]

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We Need A Rain!!

June 21, 2012 The Field Report
We Need A Rain!!

Trent Brandenburg notes some corn damage already from the extended dry period. According to the National Weather Service in Lincoln, “Much of central Illinois (except for Springfield) is running 7-17 inches behind 2011 precipitation totals for the first half of the year, with Paris and Lawrenceville nearly 20 inches below last year” Trent estimates that […]

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Soybean Planting Half-Done; Corn Looks Good

May 11, 2012 The Field Report
Soybean Planting Half-Done; Corn Looks Good

Trent is about half-done with his soybean planting today, May 11, and expects to finish Monday, May 14, if there is no rain.  The planting is going well, although from one field to the next the soil condition ranges from dusty-dry in this field, to wetter than you should plant in the next. The corn […]

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Longer Days, Getting Closer To Planting

March 9, 2012 The Field Report
Longer Days, Getting Closer To Planting

As the days get longer marking the arrival of spring, the farming focus is on planning the year ahead, beginning with planting beginning in April. Trent’s immediate decisions concern crop insurance. Big changes in the crop insurance landscape this year require careful study of the various programs and options ahead of the March 15 signup […]

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Next Year Won’t Be the Same as This Year

December 29, 2011 The Field Report
Next Year Won’t Be the Same as This Year

Trent Brandenburg makes a safe prediction for 2012 as he reflects on 2011. Trent is finishing his year-end bookkeeping and tax work, and hauling grain for January delivery as muddy conditions permit. Trent is happy for the rain, because the ground is not yet frozen, so the rain will soak into the soil and not […]

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A Decent Year But Not A Home Run

October 21, 2011 The Field Report
A Decent Year But Not A Home Run

As the first frost of fall appears in the Brandenburg fields, Trent looks back on a season which dealt some adversity, but ended with about average yields overall. Trent has completed his own fall harvest and tillage, but is still doing some custom work for other operators. The fall tillage has been made easier by […]

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Trent Is Harvesting The Downed Corn First

September 19, 2011 The Field Report
Trent Is Harvesting The Downed Corn First

This picture of wind-blown corn in mid-season illustrates the problem with getting a combine and its corn head through a field of corn downed by wind damage. Trent Brandenburg has several of areas of fields like this from a windstorm this summer. Because it’s slow going, Trent is harvesting these first, while waiting for the […]

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Every Different Color of Tractor

September 2, 2011 The Field Report

Every different color of tractor and every kind of farm implement you can imagine, were on display at the Farm Progress Show this week in Decatur. Seed and chemical suppliers had elaborate displays to explain their latest developments. Trent went. “It’s great that they have it,” he said. Trent sees the show as more to […]

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Corn Tassels, But Not All At Once

July 19, 2011 The Field Report
Corn Tassels, But Not All At Once

Trent Brandenburg is happy to see all the corn tassels but he would prefer that all of his plantings were tasseling at the same time. Due to the “water stunting” of plants which were in wet ground during the the protracted wet weather in May and June, the crop maturity progress is uneven. Trent foresees […]

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Corn and Soybean Planting Completed – Almost

June 14, 2011 The Field Report
Corn and Soybean Planting Completed – Almost

Trent Brandenburg has completed his corn and soybean planting, except for about 5% of the acreage he farms, which is either ponded or too wet for good crop growth. Unfortunately, a big part of that 5% might be found in half a 40-acre field that doesn’t drain very well. In order to get maximum returns […]

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