1st Prize
Michael Kaeb, Goodwine Co-op, Goodwine, IL
$100 Visa gift card
This was taken early on Friday, Nov. 8. It was 14 degrees with a light breeze out of the north/northwest. The corn dryers hadn’t had a break since they were started on Nov. 4. The corn that week averaged 21.5% moisture. The dryers continued to run for several more days.
2nd Prize
Jim Larson, Red Wing Grain LLC, Red Wing, MN
$75 Visa gift card
Crews were loading a corn barge on the Mississippi River and drying corn in downtown Red Wing, MN, on a record-breaking cold day in November.
3rd Prize
Amy Engelhard, Engelhard Family Farms LLC, Unionville, MI
$50 Visa gift card
This is a photo of organic corn being loaded into a semi-truck while the temperature was below freezing and it was windier than anything.