RFD Illinois

Farm Bill news from RFD Correspondent Matt Kaye and we meet new IFB Young Leader Chair Jenna Severs. Also learn about Kay Tanks. Company based in Iowa talks about their storage products.

News from DC and IDOA Director Costello talks about the importance of talking about mental health in agriculture and the Illinois Farm Family Resource Initiative. Rachel Brown, mental health professional, talks about the Illinois Farm Family Resource Initiative and the virtual support group meetings planned for 2024. Market commentary from Darren Frye, Water Street Consulting. Ed Mullins, retired...

Coverage of the Illinois Farm Bureau Annual Meeting. Kevin Semlow, Executive Director Governmental Affairs & Commodities, recaps the delegate session and we meet with the newly elected President of Illinois Farm Bureau, Brian Duncan.

Kevin Semlow, Executive Director Gov’t Affairs and Commodities Illinois Farm Bureau talks about issues and policy to be discussed at the Illinois Farm Bureau Annual Meeting in Chicago this weekend. IL Pork Power making an important donation to the Midwest Food Bank today.- John Klemm, District 7 Director Illinois Corn Marketing Board, talks about the IL Corn’s investment in the Illinois Pork Power...

Weather news and RFD Correspondent Matt Kaye reports on further concern over the USMCA. We hear from Illinois Farm Bureau President Rich Guebert as he prepares his retiring address and reflects on his years of service.

Aaron Robinson Benson Hill from Trade Talk 2023 shares information about opportunities for growers in parts of Illinois. Tasha Bunting Executive Director Illinois Milk Producers talk about IMPA Annual Meeting this week in Bloomington. Recap of weekend snowfall totals and Nick Frederking, Agrigold, recaps the 2023 corn growing season and lessons we learned for 2024.

Hosted by an all star group of farm broadcasters, we hear news from DC, an update on American Farmland Trust's Fall Covers for Spring signup. A weather outlook for December plus market conversations from Naomi Blohm, Total Farm Marketing by Stewart Peterson and Bill Tierney, Ag Resources.

RFD Washington correspondent Matt Kaye reports on the January 19th deadline to pass a first batch of annual spending bills, including for USDA. The Madison County Farm Bureau developing a great rural/urban partnership with the City of Alton. Commstock Investments Joe Camp chats short market week. Illinois Farm Bureau's Kevin Semlow talks about the continuing resolution.

RFD Correspondent Matt Kaye reports on a warning to House Republicans as they work avoid two new shutdown threats early next year in the just enacted stopgap funding and farm bill extension. Gene Noem National Pork Board talks about promoting pork around the world. Jonathan Coppess, U of I, on conservation spending questions

Matt Kaye reports on the Senate passage of a stop-gap funding bill and extension of the 2018 Farm Bill through September 2024. Illinois Soybean Association Director Scott Gaffner talks about his family involvement with the organization and the “Bushels of Broadband” program expanding internet access to rural areas. Kreg Ruhl, GROWMARK VP of Crop Nutrients, talks about fall application and the dema...

From the National Assn. of Farm Broadcasting convention,Drew Lerner, World Weather talks about water level and an update on river transporation from Mike Steehoek, Soy Transportation Coalition.

Retail food and feeding advocates joined the American Farm Bureau recently to press for improvements in any new farm bill. RFD Washington corr. Matt Kaye reports. Raghela Scavuzzo , Associate Director of Food Systems Development, Illinois Farm Bureau, talks about the National Ag Marketing Summit in Washington D.C. this week. Jason Webster, Lead Commercial Agronomist Precision Planting, talks about...

A national and state legislative update with Kevin Semlow, Executive Director Government Affairs & Commodities Illinois Farm Bureau. Report day recap with market commentary from Brian Splitt, Ag Market.net. Steve Bridge shares coverage of President Biden’s visit to the Stellantis plant in Belvidere, IL.

Illinois Farm Bureau Vice President and Chair of the Resolutions Committee, Brian Duncan, on the November resolutions committee meeting. From the Kent Quality Beef Cow Calf Forum: a farmer panel wrapped up the program yesterday to talk about what is working in the country: Derek Dean- Dean Bacon & Beef-LeRoy, Thad Tharp -Land O’Lakes Financial-Monmouth, & Jake Fidler-Fairview Sale Barn.

The government is again about to run out of money with a shutdown cliff next week and a farm bill extension hanging in the balance. RFD Washington correspondent Matt Kaye reports. Farm Week’s Tammie Sloup talks with Ed Elfmann, senior vice president of agriculture and rural banking policy with the American Bankers Association, during the Agricultural Bankers Conference in Oklahoma City. Lana Shovl...

An October weather recap and news from the National FFA Convention held last week.