Day Four of the Farm Trip
On Thursday, I got to spend the morning with John and Kurt Hohenberger near Leland, Illinois. I met them this January at TEPAP and looked forward to getting out to see them. They had just put in a new grain handling system at the home site and we were able to get out in the field and do a little combining.
They have a new John Deere with an 8 row head and John fairly quickly turned the machine over to me and I proceeded to give him some humor by missing a row for about a hundred feet. It was a little humiliating to have to back up the combine to get it fixed, but for the first time out, I was not too bad. There were some areas where the corn had blown over in the wind and I had to pick my row and guess on it most of the way. With John’s help I did not do too bad.
The corn in that field was averaging about 215 a bushels and we saw many areas pushing 250 bushels. It is always nice to cut high yield grain.
I had lunch with Todd Doehring of Centrec in Champaign, Illinois (actually Savoy which is a suburb). I had met Todd at the annual Farm Financial Standards Council and it was good to catch up with him.
I then proceeded to drive another 550 miles south to Batesville, Mississippi where I spent the night and I am now headed to Baton Rouge to finally get some sugar cane harvesting in.
Paul Neiffer is a certified public accountant and business advisor specializing in income taxation, accounting services, and succession planning for farmers and agribusiness processors. Paul is a principal with CliftonLarsonAllen in Walla Walla, Washington, as well as a regular speaker at national conferences and contributor at agweb.com. Raised on a farm in central Washington, he has been immersed in the ag industry his entire life, including the last 30 years professionally. Paul and his wife purchase an 180 acre ranch in 2016 and enjoy keeping it full of animals.
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