A Shot of AG
Farming Three Central Illinois Counties
Clip: Season 6 Episode 40 | 46sVideo has Closed Captions
Kent Kleinschmidt explains how different soils shape his farms across three counties.
Kent Kleinschmidt farms ground across Tazewell, Logan and McLean counties, giving him a mix of flat black soil, rolling ground and different slopes. He explains how that variety can actually help balance risk, with flatter ground performing well in dry years while rolling acres can have an advantage when excessive rain leaves wetter fields struggling.
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A Shot of AG
Farming Three Central Illinois Counties
Clip: Season 6 Episode 40 | 46sVideo has Closed Captions
Kent Kleinschmidt farms ground across Tazewell, Logan and McLean counties, giving him a mix of flat black soil, rolling ground and different slopes. He explains how that variety can actually help balance risk, with flatter ground performing well in dry years while rolling acres can have an advantage when excessive rain leaves wetter fields struggling.
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We actually live in, barely into Logan County.
Where I grew up was barely in the Taswell County.
And my wife's from McLean County, so we farm ground over in McLean County.
- So your farm ground is probably more level than this desk.
- Some of it is, and some of it's more like that.
- Must be rough (chuckles).
- We have combination of soils, soil types, and slopes.
So I always tell people, on a dry year, the flat black stuff does really good.
On a really wet year, the rolling stuff doesn't have water stand on it, so it'll out yield flat black stuff that water can't get off of quick enough, so it's kind of nice to have the combination.
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