Friday, October 31, 2025

On this last day of October, the two Brandons delivered 4 loads of corn to GPC at Washington, then they turned their attention to washing.  The newer JD S780 combine was finished off with a scrubbing with a soapy brush (using Andyclean Soap).  The older JD S780 got its air-cleaning, and the JD 9520R tractor got the soapy brush treatment.  Good progress on the cleaning today.  The weather is a bit nicer this afternoon, bright sunshine and 59ºF (15C).

Brandon D scrubs the combine with an #Andyclean soapy brush.  

Parked away in the new building, this JD S780 shines the way we prefer!

Brandon also worked on the JD 9520R tractor.

I spent some office time refining the numbers for the crop budget for 2026, getting better estimates of the cost of the wheat crop’s nitrogen, and for next year’s anhydrous ammonia.  It is a bit encouraging, hopefully not as financially lean as 2025, and we also hope for yields that are similar or better to help too.  Knowing our per-bushel cost to produce our crops makes us better and more confident marketers.

I think we’ll have a couple trick-or-treaters tonight.

Have a good weekend.  We will flip the calendar over tomorrow.

November already?  Wow!