From Chicago we headed south towards Bloomington where Bruce spent the morning meeting with Terry & the guys from Advance Trading. After lunch with Bryan & Taylor (Advanced Trading) we headed out to Delavan to visit a local co-op and their grain handling system.
On Friday we left Bloomington and stopped in at Illinois Family Farms at Carlinville on our way to St Louis. We had a great time with Rick and his wife, Amy, who showed us through their grain handling/storage system as well as some of their ideas on business management and marketing decisions. Rick (Illinois Family Farms) is currently farming 24,000 acres of corn and aim to reach 450,000 by 2040 so this is by no means a small operation!! His grain storage system alone would be a similar size if not larger than the Parkes Graincorp site.
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