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Getting Ready For The New Crop Year

Trent Brandenburg was starting to think about planting during the recent warm days, but the big blizzard on Wednesday, February 24, helped him decide to keep the planters and tractors in the shed a while longer. Trent has completed delivery of last year's grain from his on-farm storage. He is now getting his seed delivered and completing the winter maintenance on his machinery. This is the time of year when the input expenses all come at once: seed, fertilizer, crop protection chemicals, and diesel fuel. Hopefully, and farmers have to be hopeful, the yield will cover the crop expenses and land costs...

2022-04-28T15:04:07-05:00February 29, 2016|

Looking Back At 2015, Ahead To 2016

Trent Brandenburg is happy to recall the excellent spring and harvest weather and work progress during 2015. Yields were "very good", Trent observed, just not quite up to 2014 levels. Market prices, on the other hand, weren't good. The unusually dry fall helped corn dry in the field, thus saving drying expenses at the grain elevator. Looking ahead to 2016 after several days of record-breaking rainfall and record flood levels in Central Illinois, Trent recalls that warm, wet winters are often followed by hot, dry summers. Trent wryly speculated that a hot, dry summer might reduce yields so much that crop insurance would provide more revenue than the grain market...

2022-04-28T15:04:40-05:00December 30, 2015|
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