Illinois cattle farmer, Jake Perino of Whiteside County, talks about his year feeding cattle and living through a tornado that took down their barns.

Illinois Beef Association Commercial Producers of the Year--the Jakobs brothers from Whiteside county.

"Hard times hit the pig business” Mark Gebhards Executive Director Illinois Farm Bureau talks about the impact of the passage of California’s Prop 12 & the importance of the livestock industry to Illinois.

Part one of a focus on hard times hitting the pig business. Brian Duncan Ogle County pig farmer, Vice President Illinois Farm Bureau and Phil Borgic of Montgomery County, Past President Illinois & National Pork Producers Association.

Peter Vitaliano, National Milk Producers Federation on low milk prices.

Part two with Kim Hamilton, Director of Marketing Illinois Pork Producers. She talks about the marketing efforts for pork and the consumer connection to promote product.

Kim Hamilton, Director of Marketing for the Illinois Pork Producers talks about their work to promote pork around the state and the successful campaigns that are reaching consumers in the retail space.

Illinois pig farmer, Cheryl Walsh, President-Elect of the Illinois Pork Producers Association talks about extremely low pig prices at the farm gate and her decision to pull the trigger to donate pork to the Illinois Pork Power Program.

Steve Meyer, Partners for Production Agriculture talks about extremely low pig prices and the poor profitability projections for U.S. pig farmers.

Eric Mittenthal, President of National Hot Dog and Sausage Council talks the tradition of hot dogs at the ballpark.