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Great Planting Weather Gets Seed In Ground
Trent Brandenburg enjoyed a marvelous week of perfect planting weather this month. He has completed planting 80 per cent of his corn acreage and 20 per cent of his soybeans. There's still a third of April remaining!! The nights have been too cool the past [...]
Trent’s Backhoe Finds Dry Subsoil
For the first time in many months, the Illinois Drought Monitor map is completely white, with no yellow abnormally dry or light orange moderate drought areas. "That's because it's all snow," Trent said with a laugh. Trent just got home from his mid-winter vacation. He [...]
Trent Has A Farmer’s Perennial New Year Hope
Trent Brandenburg is happy with the 2022 results of his farming operation. He looks forward to 2023 "if the prices stay up." "With the cost of inputs going up, there can be a real squeeze. Farmland prices are high and slightly increasing, which means land [...]
It Was A Good Year
Trent Brandenburg has completed his harvest. His 2022 corn and soybean crops are "in the bin". Asked how he would rate the crop year, Trent thought a bit and said, "It was a good year." Trent has concerns during the long drought in May and [...]