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
Rain At Last!!
Trent Brandenburg is very happy today. March is predicted to come in like a lion, with rain every day for the first week. Central Illinois has been in extreme drought conditions for months. The northern half of Piatt County and the central part of the west half of Champaign County have had less than 25% of normal precipitation for 60 days. All the rest of Piatt and surrounding counties have has less than half of normal precipitation for 60 days. This was the 22nd driest January since 1895. The week of rainfall will not replenish the deep soil moisture at the 12-inch and 24-inch depths, where it is needed to sustain the crop for the dry months of summer, but at least, with some April showers that don’t delay planting too much, there will be moisture enough for germination.
Trent does not plan any changes in his rotations or crop protection plans for the new growing season. He scouts his fields carefully and will use crop protections he finds need for. With the corn and soybean market prices so low, careful management of input costs is mandatory.
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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
