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.