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Michael Lemon

@MikeLemon64

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Loyal husband, father of two. “Fires will be kindled to testify that two and two make four. Swords will be drawn to prove that leaves are green in summer”.

Brandt/Waverly
Joined April 2012
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Michael Lemon
4 years
Best damn song ever written about $5 corn - let the good times roll 🌽
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Michael Lemon
2 years
“Phantom Yield Loss”. Corn harvested on 9/16 @ 25.3% yielded 309.3 dry bu. Same corn harvested 10/3 @ 18.1% yielded 287.5 bu. At 1.4% shrink and $.03 cent per point drying charge, early harvested corn netted an extra $31.70 per acre.
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Michael Lemon
4 years
Tensions rising in downstate Illinois. Small businesses fighting an uphill battle right now.
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Michael Lemon
5 years
HARVEST 19 - I am looking for the 19 best pictures from this fall to put in a picture book. Send me your picture with a short caption and if it makes the book I will send you a copy. Give me some love and retweet -
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Michael Lemon
7 months
Corn going in the ground near Auburn. Hope it does as well as the henbit has.
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Michael Lemon
1 year
BRANDT Waverly yield guess is 220 bu/A. Several “seed experts” expecting yields to be flat to 20 bu below lasts years corn average. Range of 165 bu on the low side to 282 bu on the high end.
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Michael Lemon
3 years
Beautiful day - first day of autumn - so glad I live and work in the heartland.
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Michael Lemon
2 years
“Harvest 22”. I NEED YOUR HELP - please send me your best harvest pictures and give me a retweet. I will send a book to 3 random contributors if you make the top 22. Fall colors and harvest are in full bloom here in Illinois, it’s my favorite time of the year!
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Michael Lemon
1 year
Steady stream of new crop corn at Scoular Shuttle. Low moisture so far 17.5% averaging 25%. Stalk strength very poor this fall.
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Michael Lemon
2 years
NH3 season is like a sadistic relationship. It’s dangerous and I get yelled at a lot. It sure is exciting and sometimes fun.
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Michael Lemon
3 years
After 17 years I “walked the tracks” to get back home to CHS Lowder. Lots of good memories there. Thanks to all those who have helped with my success. Hope I didn’t disappoint. Here is to NEW BEGINNINGS.
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Michael Lemon
2 years
Closing the rows in central Illinois.
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Michael Lemon
3 years
@Trump07 Next big problem - war in Ukraine, Chinese invasion of Taiwan, financial crash, natural disaster….
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Michael Lemon
2 years
For the third straight year - the flag is going up and not coming down until the ILLINI win it all or lose! BEAT THEM PIGS!
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Michael Lemon
3 years
4:00 am - Loading our first Soybean train at Lowder. 7000 acres of central Illinois beans headed to California.
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Michael Lemon
3 years
@drich82 No supply shortage in 2008. No 5.6 trillion money printing 2008. Smart money says buy early.
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Michael Lemon
3 years
Almost at 1,000 grain trains loaded at the Waverly shuttle, I remember #1 in April of 2004.
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Michael Lemon
1 year
75,000 ton of NH3 moved through the Waverly location. 20 years ago it was nothing more than a bean field. Be safe out there!!
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Michael Lemon
6 years
R.I.P. Malfunction Junction. 1972 -2018. Several fond memories of the place.
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Michael Lemon
4 years
Best corn plot I’ve seen is Shane Gray’s on Rt 104. Farmer’s powered through bad weather, poor prices, and the Covid this spring to “get er done”!!
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Michael Lemon
2 years
@MikeDonio being hijacked for political gain.
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Michael Lemon
3 years
April 11th - Working dirt south of shuttle.
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Michael Lemon
4 years
Flying high with the ILLINI - flag isn’t coming down until we lose. Pound the ball to Kofi!!
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Michael Lemon
4 years
Love the fall landscapes. Not many of us can appreciate Florence lime stacked perfectly in a field.
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Michael Lemon
2 years
April 12th planted corn looks fantastic. Just north of the shuttle.
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Michael Lemon
6 years
Water color by Kate Worman-Becker. Easy to see who has the talent in the Chris Becker family. Bill Lemon 80th birthday!
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Michael Lemon
4 years
Making my garden great again. Ready for summer fun!
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Michael Lemon
6 years
227.03 bu/acre. Brandt Waverly yield “guess” contest. 16 area fields, 4 random ears, 33,295 harvest population, 80,000 kernels/bu. Low guess yield of 166 near Palmyra - High guess yield of 272 near Thayer.
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Michael Lemon
4 years
Don’t know the cardinals record - have no idea who is left in the NBA playoffs - heard maybe the blues got eliminated? No interest in a crowdless NFL. Feels like a divorce but I’m getting through it one day at a time.
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Michael Lemon
8 years
RED - my new success color! "All in" with central Illinois's premier retailer. Family owned since 1953 - GO BRANDT
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Michael Lemon
8 years
Corn being planted March 24th west of the shuttle.
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Michael Lemon
6 years
Juice is loose at Waverly. 4 NH3 custom bars running hard
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Michael Lemon
1 year
20 round and 40 long. Corn crop gonna be big around Modesto.
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Michael Lemon
5 years
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Michael Lemon
2 years
@CBKimbrell Central IL - Sangamon Co. one of our better crops
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Michael Lemon
2 years
Turning 210 bu corn into 230 bu corn in under 20 minutes. It’s like “magic”!
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Michael Lemon
1 year
Fun afternoon at Holzwarth Flying Service, completed with a flyover. Holzwarth has 11 planes and coops with another 19 enabling them to apply 90,000 acres a day. Ed Corrigan and Wade Meteer we’re on hand to answer questions.
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Michael Lemon
4 years
Last pass of the last field right ahead of the rain. Treg Caruthers - Waverly
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Michael Lemon
3 years
Who is old enough to remember these two relics from the past?
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Michael Lemon
3 years
When the Maple tree seeds (samara) are loaded - means big corn yields. My Maples are looking like 250 bu corn!
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Michael Lemon
3 years
Takes a special kind of crazy to actually enjoy NH3 season.
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Michael Lemon
3 years
@tonyplacido1 @AnnCoulter I remember going to Cahokia Mounds on a field trip. A huge mound of dirt built 2000 years ago. And at the same time the Romans were completing the coliseum. Let’s give the Italians this one day for all the progress they brought to the Americas.
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Michael Lemon
8 years
Last of the NH3 rail cars. 9000 custom acres completed. Bring on Thanksgiving
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Michael Lemon
2 years
Farmers receive 14 cents for every dollar spent at the grocery store. The US spends less than any other country in the world - 6.4% of household income.
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Michael Lemon
3 years
The simple joy when results exceed expectations - now that is a kick ass mortar launcher. Fireworks junkie!
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Michael Lemon
4 months
Looking good in Central Illinois!
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Michael Lemon
5 years
Progress on the prairie - wet corn coming in, NH3 moving out.
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Michael Lemon
6 years
Happy Halloween from the Lemons
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Michael Lemon
4 years
Flag for sale - barely used - make offer
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Michael Lemon
5 years
Finally!! They put the stop sign on the right road - morgan macoupin sangamon intersection. Been waiting 24 years.
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Michael Lemon
2 years
Another BRANDT Community Trial in the books. 264 bu. average with DKC59-82RIB taking top honors at 287 bu. Marginal soils “🌙 dust”
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Michael Lemon
1 year
1 day later NW Auburn - throw in some hail damage for extra fun.
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Michael Lemon
4 years
@DonnaDlm71 I’ve got mine, but yes - otherwise healthy people are waiting to see which vaccines are most effective and\or most harmful. I respect that.
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Michael Lemon
4 years
This will never get any coverage - tragic.
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Jurie B
4 years
Farm murders in South Africa. Farmers are taking to the streets. Every cross represent 10 farmers murdered in the last few years.
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Michael Lemon
4 years
It’s far from perfect and it hasn’t been easy - but this corn is starting to get “the look”. Whose ready for a biscuits and gravey at Verda Maes
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Michael Lemon
8 years
Over 2 billion dollars of productivity lost to March Madness- humm
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Michael Lemon
2 years
300 bu. Corn!! 10 random plants @ .523# ears x 32,122 harvest population. 16.4 round x 35.2 long calculates to 231.7 bu estimate. Seeing some late season ear disease.
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Michael Lemon
3 years
WOW - $10,000 to buy this load of NH3. I remember when I sold it for under $100/ton.
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Michael Lemon
8 years
GREEN LIGHT.
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Michael Lemon
5 years
Group of dedicated young men helping me clean up my last field of waterhemp - bring on 2020!!
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Michael Lemon
8 years
Birthplace of snowmobiles
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Michael Lemon
4 years
@enough4329 @North2North @AmyJacobson @LoriLightfoot Have zero interest in ever returning to Chicago. My vacation dollars headed south.
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Michael Lemon
3 years
@DDFalpha 1968 IH 656. My grandpas first and only new tractor.
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Michael Lemon
5 months
90% planted SW Sangamon Co. 70% of that is good to excellent.
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Michael Lemon
7 years
Happy Halloween from the Lemons
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Michael Lemon
3 years
Torrential rains at the Sangamon Co Fair - what’s the chances of that?
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Michael Lemon
4 years
Can’t remember a more pleasant November - fall NH3 🌽💪 🌽
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Michael Lemon
7 years
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Michael Lemon
3 years
4,400 hp per engine. 500 trailer loads of corn per train. BNSF one of America’s great railroads. 🤠👍🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Michael Lemon
3 years
CHS yield guess contest at Sheedy Shores.
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Michael Lemon
2 years
GREEN LIGHT 🟢 Crops starting to come out of the field in central Illinois. Very good but not great yields so far 🌽
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Michael Lemon
6 years
3 beautiful chicks - 2 young stallions - 1 Silver Fox. Good times at the Lemon Family Reunion
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Michael Lemon
4 years
Sunrise on the beach. Goodbye world - talk to you again next Saturday!
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Michael Lemon
1 year
There is never a “bad year” to put on Potash, but some years are better than others. Yields are good, K is fairly priced, soybean prices are still relatively strong. Seeing some tremendous top end bean yields on “A” soils when potassium levels are high.
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Michael Lemon
3 years
I’ve seen a few wine trees in town. My whiskey tree out in the timber beats em all. (Makers Mark species)
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Michael Lemon
3 years
Rail delivered NH3 👍👍 Its like having city water 💪
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Michael Lemon
5 years
Just had a random drug test. Of the eight people tested so far today, 87.5% has failed for marijuana. 🤔
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Michael Lemon
3 years
Waverly Shuttle area crops: 1/3 good 1/3 average 1/3 poor. Gonna need a strong second half.
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Michael Lemon
3 years
Illini still flying!! Survived a poor game - let’s make a run!!
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Michael Lemon
4 years
Pandemic is almost over when there is only one car in the Auburn DQ at 11:40 am
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Michael Lemon
2 years
Off to a great start in southwest Sangamon Co - 60% planted into ideal conditions. Turn up the heat!!
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Michael Lemon
1 year
Great looking crop, great looking forecast, I need these grain buyers to stop screwing around and help me out!!! $5 corn 😬👎
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Michael Lemon
3 years
@AlchemistBreuu @PeterSchiff Isn’t there like 9,400 crypto currencies out there? New ones coming everyday? Gold is old and slow but sometimes Tortoise wins the race
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Michael Lemon
3 years
$8.00 corn, $45.00 plywood, $8.50 value meal at McDonalds, $3.19 gas, hammer down with 6 trillion in new spending - what could go wrong?
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Michael Lemon
8 years
Potash trading at 12 year lows. Good year to build some K
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Michael Lemon
1 year
“Man vs Machine”. Appreciate Stephen Roswarski accepting my sampling challenge. Very impressed with their Robotic Soil Sampling.
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Michael Lemon
4 years
@GoddessofGrain Bourbon distillery/golf course. “Drink & drive”
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Michael Lemon
3 years
@drich82 Potash prepaid?, picked up at terminal?, blended?, bundled with other products?, VRT spread?, different quality grades?, billing spits with landlords?, fill tons vs prepaid tons vs in-season tons?, and that’s just simple old Potash. Got to make a margin to stay in business.
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Michael Lemon
1 year
My relaxing Sunday afternoon crop walk has given me indigestion. At $4.72 I need this corn to make 240 - it ain’t gonna happen. Late tar spot infestation around field edges as a kicker.
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Michael Lemon
11 months
Best 4? - Georgia, Alabama, Michigan, Texas. Who will get in? Michigan, Washington, Florida State, Alabama. Welcome to semi-pro football 👎
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Michael Lemon
3 years
Nothing more American than a small town parade!!
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Michael Lemon
3 years
.4” Waverly shuttle. Bubbles in the puddles means more rain coming.
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Michael Lemon
4 years
@ottoscholl And all these new dollars are backed by what? Full faith of the federal government? What could go wrong?
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Michael Lemon
3 years
1.5 years into this pandemic and I am completely confused. I see stadiums at full capacity, a few covid related deaths, kids way behind scholastically, Israel is having trouble - India is getting better? I don’t want to get covid, worse than that I’m losing faith in leadership!
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Michael Lemon
2 years
250.45 bu/acre - BRANDT/Waverly WAG (wild ass guess) corn estimate.
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Michael Lemon
5 years
Hmmm
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Michael Lemon
4 years
@BRANDT_co Pure class - a role model for all of us in the industry. R.I.P.
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Michael Lemon
7 years
Pussy willow starting to bloom - time to plant corn
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Michael Lemon
7 years
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Michael Lemon
2 years
@KMMcCammack We are mortgaging our kids and grandkids future - we all know it but no one will say it…. Shame on us
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