The Topflight baseball team had lots of fun this summer!
Photo courtesy of Jill Applebee.
CROP TOUR -
Tuesday, August 17 at the Bement Country Opry
Dinner will be served at 5:00, meeting to follow
Learn the results of the crop tour scouts and a market outlook
New!!
Voice blast/audio alert tab on our website. If you missed your voice blast message, or want to hear it replayed, click on the new tab (end of the second row) at the top of the page. If you would like to have the voice blast messages sent to your phone, call Amy @ 217-678-2261.
Rain totals text - if you would to have the rain totals texted to your phone, call Amy @ 217-678-2261.
We welcome Brad Dehart to the Topflight staff!!
He will be working with the operations staff at Atwood.
Would you like to volunteer to help on the Habitat Home in Bement this month?
The balance of July, they are painting, and installing cabinets. Call Larry McClure @ 369-9485, if you can help. All help is appreciated!!!
Get ready for harvest -----
CDL course - air brakes, combination vehicles, tankers, hazmat, and more ----
August 7 at 7:30 am
Champaign County Farm Bureau Auditorium
Registration is required - call 352-5235 for details
Topflight Grain along with Piatt County Young Ag Leaders will be sponsoring a Traffic Pattern week at all of our full time locations, during the week of August 16th-20th. It will be a chance for farmers and their hired help to stop by any of our locations and figure out traffic patterns and harvest procedures before harvest actually gets here. If you have any questions or suggestions, please call Adam at 762-2163.
Transportation Seminar
August 26, 8 am at the Piatt County Farm Bureau
Topics will include weight limits, US DOT, UCR, and new safety regulations
hosted by Piatt County Farm Bureau & Topflight Grain
New Cell Phone Policy – In an effort to ensure the safety of drivers, customers, and employees, as well as, more efficiency in loading/unloading activities, Topflight Grain is implementing the following new Cell Phone/Electronic Device Policy for Non-Employees:
ANY use of a personal cell phone or electronic device (makes or receives phone calls, leaves messages, sends text messages, etc.), including Blue Tooth’s, will be strictly prohibited while:
1. On the scales being weighed inbound or outbound.
2.Entering a loading/unloading site (i.e. the grain pits, side draw areas, or flat/pile/bunkers, etc.)
3.Exiting a loading/unloading site (i.e. the grain pits, side draw areas, or flat/pile/bunkers, etc.)
Therefore, while on Topflight Grain property, you may only use your cell phone/electronic device if you are parked in a safe manner on the property parking lot, in line to weigh/load/dump, or in the grain offices.
Free DP - Corn - free if delivered beginning March 22, to August 31;
Beans - free if delivered after March 1, to August 31
All on a space available basis. Be sure to confirm space at your elevator.
Historic prices - Click on the Historic prices link above to see Topflight grain prices since 2001. This includes corn & beans, cash and fall. You can open the information as a spreadsheet, or a simple sheet. Using the spreadsheet, you can average the prices for any time period you choose, or perform other mathmatical functions. We had this request for the variable cash rent leases, but you may find other uses for the information, too.
Test your Trivia skills, with the Topflight weekly Trivia question --- Your correct answer will make you eligible for that world-famous Topflight Grain T-shirt!
You can see the amounts of the latest rainfall on the
Rain Map page. Amounts are listed for the most recent 24 hour period ending at 7:00 am, plus the monthly total and the yearly total.
Receive cash bids & CBOT quotes via text message on your cell phone!!
It's free!!! Cash bids are free to Topflight Grain customers; a small fee is charged to receive the CBOT quotes.
Call your local Topflight office to subscribe to the free service.
If you would like to receive the morning and evening comments via email (which may be easier to read than the website on your mobile phone), please call your local Topflight office.
Voice Blast
If you prefer a phone call about market reports, elevator harvest changes, etc, you can sign up for the voice blast service. Calls can be made to your home phone or your cell phone when important news occurs. No fee for this service!!! Call Amy in the Bement office @ 217-678-2261, for more information or to sign up.
Spring and summer is time for fun, community events, summer festivals --- don't miss the fun!!!
July 31 & August 1
KC BBQ in Ivesdale
Lots of fun & good food, all weekend
See Russel in the Atwood office for raffle tickets!
August 20 & 21
Apple Dumpling Festival in Atwood
Parade at 2:00 on Saturday
Music, games, and much more!!
Macon County Ag Extension information - for you!!
Grain Marketing Group - meets the 2nd Thursday of each month
Meetings begin at 7:30 pm in the Illini Room of the Extension Conference Center.
Piatt County Ag Extension information - for you!!
Grain Marketing Group - meets the 3rd Thursday of each month
Meetings begin at 7:30 pm at the Extension office - 210 S Market, Monticello
Let us know what's going on in your community -
The iView program, previously Producer Reports, has been re-started. We are working to re-register everyone. You will receive an email from Topflight Grain when your account has been setup. We thank everyone for their patience!!!
