Looking for corn farmer(s) to read ~2k words for authenticity

Hey, I saw no one had jumped on this, and I thought I'd suggest you reach out to your local cooperative extension? We have them in NC, but I think they're called Agricultural Extension Service in Colorado (thanks, google). I used to call mine when I was a reporter for a wide variety of reasons. Always nice helpful folks.

I didn’t initially respond because I was never a farmer, but I spent my teen years on my parents’ small (180-acre) Iowa farm, circa 1972-1978. We had maybe 100 acres in corn most years, but I wasn’t fond of farming, was eager to go away to college and not return, and did my level best to remain as disengaged from it as allowed.

With those caveats, I can try to help, if you get no better offers? The business of US farming was already in transition in the 1970s, from its smaller-scale, family-oriented roots into multi-thousand-plus-acre agri-businesses that rent the land rather than own it, so I’m not entirely sure my memories (such as they are) are relevant. Our equipment was also mostly small, old (circa 1940s-60s), and constantly patched-together by my dad, as compared to the behemoths that began to appear to plant & harvest large-scale operations in the 80s.

Coloradocorn.com.

Jeff