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“Lotta Desk Work” – Trent Brandenburg
December 2014 Farm Report Trent Brandenburg is now into a "lotta desk work." He has completed putting up his equipment after an end to the 2014 harvest. Now he has to plan the buying of all his crop inputs for the 2015 crop year: corn [...]
Done For A Week Or So
November 2014 Farm Report Trent Brandenburg is happy to have completed his 2014 corn and soybean harvest. "I've never known of elevators shutting down because they were full of beans," Trent observed. Trent is 75% done with his ground work, which has been slowed due [...]
Now Picking Corn, Starting Soybeans In Two Weeks
September 2014 Farm Report Trent Brandenburg waited for more in-field corn drying before starting his main corn harvest. Early sampling runs came in at 25 per cent and more, but now some is as low as 17 per cent, so Trent is rolling. Trent estimates [...]
“We’ve come a long way in a week.”
August 2014 Farm Report Trent Brandenburg, along with most central Illinois farmers, has watched the slow development of "bin-busting" corn and soybean crops in this unusually cool summer. Fortunately the past week has provided the 90-degree temperatures more typical of August. The corn crop has [...]