 
          October 27, 2015
        
        
          
            2015 Logan County Farm Outlook Magazine
          
        
        
          LINCOLN DAILY NEWS.COM    Page 35
        
        
          Since global supplies are very plentiful, export partners can be more stringent about what
        
        
          they will accept.
        
        
          Top Flight takes the majority of their grain to market to ADM in Decatur and Tate & Lyle
        
        
          in Peoria.  Many of their elevators outside Logan County have rail access direct to these
        
        
          locations.
        
        
          Bramer finished with this forecast: We need moisture here for next year’s crop.  Ground
        
        
          water levels are low.  If we don’t get adequate rain and snow during the winter to increase
        
        
          ground water, we will be starting out at a deficit for the next planting season and that will
        
        
          affect next year’s crop.
        
        
          [Topflight operates 19 facilities in Piatt, Macon, Moultrie, Dewitt, Douglas,
        
        
          Champaign, & Logan counties with a permanent storage capacity of 37 million
        
        
          bushels of grain.  Topflight acquired East Lincoln Farmer’s Grain with elevators at
        
        
          Atlanta, Lawndale, Krueger, Johnson Siding and Beason in Logan County in 2014.
        
        
          The Logan County operations are managed by Todd Steinberg, located at the
        
        
          Kruger elevator.]
        
        
          Story by Jim Youngquist