Tim Andriesen, CME Group, talks about the CME Pork Cutout Contract the group started to offer last year.

Grand Champion Bacon exhibited by Leiding's Meats and Catering in Danville.

Joan Meyer, Legacy Farms in Witt, IL talks about her family heritage of showing livestock at the Illinois State Fair.

Rita Frazer reports from the Parade of Champions at the Illinois State Fair, with interviews with Nalayney Guyer of Robinson in Crawford County, exhibitor of the Grand Champion Land of Lincoln Market lamb; Ashtin Guyer of Robinson in Crawford County, exhibitor of the Grand Champion Steer; Drake Fletcher, Menard County, exhibitor of the Grand Champion Barrow.

Rita Frazer talks with Melissa Rhode, Illinois Farm Bureau Marketing Director about Illinois Farm Bureau’s support of youth exhibitors at the Illinois State Fair.

Brian Sager Junior Livestock Superintendent talks about the great numbers of exhibitors at the Illinois State Fair.

Rita Frazer talks with Jeff Galle Agriculture Prof Emeritus with John Wood Community College and Dr. Rod Johnson University of Illinois Department Head of Animal Sciences from the ribbon cutting of the JWCC Ag Sciences Complex in Pike County.

Tasha Bunting Associate Director Commodities and Livestock Illinois Farm Bureau talks Guidance 263 and what it will mean to the livestock industry.

Countdown to the Illinois State Fair with State Fair Manager Rebecca Clark, Illinois Director of Agriculture Jerry Costello and Deputy Ag Director Kristi Jones.

From Clear View Farms in Macoupin County farm with Molly and Maddie Rosentreter as they talk about leadership, service, and family. Plus, a conversation from the chicken coop.