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.
The Field Report
The latest news from Brandenburg Farms
Wild And Windy Winter Weekend
Trent Brandenburg and family endured a near miss yesterday as a tornado touched down a few miles from their home place. Tornadoes are a rare occurrence in December, but a “bomb cyclone” ripped through central Illinois yesterday. Houses were unroofed in Long Creek, a village a few miles southwest of Trent’s. The temperature plunged from a record-high 69 at 2 p.m. yesterday (28 December 2025) to 12 above this morning, with 45 m.p.h. wind gusts providing a “feels like” 18 below.
Trent is happy to have been spared the wind damage, but like most central Illinois farm operators, he is not happy about corn and soybean market prices. He hopes Santa got his letter, but being the pragmatic farmer he is, Trent is being careful about planning his inputs for next year. The Brandenburg family wishes you and yours a happy and prosperous New Year. If you are a landowner wanting to be more prosperous, make a New Year’s resolution to talk with Trent.
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Using the latest computer-aided decision-making and current best-practice farming techniques, Brandenburg Farms can help you earn the best operating return on your farmland investment now, while respecting and protecting your investment to maintain quality and yield performance in the future. As a Brandenburg Farms landowner, you receive comprehensive annual reporting to track improvements, input costs, yields, operating return, and investment appreciation.
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- Cash Rent
- Risk Sharing – Flexible Cash Lease
- Leased land from 1031 Exchanges
- Custom Farming
- Corn / Soy Beans / Seed Beans
