Brandenburg Farms
Cerro Gordo, Illinois
Brandenburg Farms is family-owned and family-operated grain farm. We work with landowners & farm managers with farm ground in Piatt County, Moultrie County & Macon County in central Illinois. Our philosophy is simple. We want to earn your trust to farm, protect, and improve your agricultural land investment. We want to farm your available farm ground.
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The latest news from Brandenburg Farms
In a Drought, but Corn is Too Wet to Harvest
The current Illinois drought map (11 September) shows severe drought in the northern 40% of Piatt County and moderate drought in the rest of Piatt and adjacent areas of neighboring counties.
Trent Brandenburg has barely started harvesting because his corn moisture ranges from 40% to 17% and he doesn’t want to pay the elevator to dry it. “Soybeans are not ready yet; they are still green,” he continued. So Trent has just “cut the corners,” harvesting the very corner of his cornfields at rural crossroads to provide better visibility (and safety) for motorists approaching the crossroad. Trent estimates he has harvested “about 4%” of his crops so far this year.
Trent got his best yields, thus far, from corn planted in early April. He is happy with the test weights he has seen. Rain is predicted for later this week (18-19 September), but not a significant amount. The Illinois State Climatologist reports the driest August on record in Mt Vernon (0.09 inches), Centralia (0.09 inches), and Charleston (0.03 inches), and the second driest in Springfield (0.16 inches) and Effingham (0.32 inches). Northern Illinois was much wetter.
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- Cash Rent
- Risk Sharing – Flexible Cash Lease
- Leased land from 1031 Exchanges
- Custom Farming
- Corn / Soy Beans / Seed Beans
