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
Summertime Mowing And Spraying
Trent Brandenburg has been busy mowing his lawn and his roadsides due to the sunshine and frequent rains making his grass grow as well as his corn and soybeans. He has been hiring aerial spraying of fungicides to suppress disease in his corn and soybeans. Trent invests in the spraying in order to improve his crop test weights at harvest and thus get a higher price at the elevator.
Trent has noticed a new trend in aerial spraying this year: the use of drones. These are big drones, in order to carry the tank and nozzles. They are more maneuverable near towns and better able to avoid power lines. The airplane needs more climbing distance to clear the power lines or other obstructions near its flight path. The drones can deliver a more accurate spray pattern near the obstructions by being more maneuverable. Trent notes that technology is wonderful but more expensive.
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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
