RFD Illinois

Rita Frazer visits with Illinois Farm Bureau's Mark Gebhards regarding issues and upcoming events. DeLoss Jahnke introduces us to Carter Hoge, Champion of the Master Showmanship Contest at the Illinois State Fair.

It's State Fair Time! Illinois Director of Agriculture Jerry Costello previews the Illinois State Fair.
Brian Sager, Junior Livestock Department Superintendent shares the events for the weekend.
Melissa Rhode, Illinois Farm Bureau Marketing Director about Illinois Farm Bureau’s sponsorship of the web broadcast of the livestock shows. Rod Weinzierl, Illinois Corn Growers executive director talks ethanol and green energy. Report day preview, early morning markets and weather.

Rita Frazer visits with Illinois Farm Bureau President Richard Guebert about the call to action regarding the Inflation Reduction Act. DeLoss was on the road yesterday and visits with Dennis Smith, Vermillion CFB president at the Georgetown Fair. Jim Taylor has the early morning markets and weather.

DeLoss Jahnke talks with Mike Wilson, Wabash Valley FS, on the results of a way too wet July. Matt Kaye reports on Climate Change Emission reduction legislation being discussed in Washington D.C. Rita Frazer provides coverage of the dedication and ribbon cutting at the John Wood Community College Ag Sciences Complex/Fred Bradshaw Learning Center at the Orr Research Center in Pike County. Jim Taylor has the early morning markets.

Rita Frazer talks with Congressman Darin LaHood at the Illinois Corn Growers 50th Anniversary celebration. She also shares a report with FarmWeek Crop Watcher Todd Easton, Coles County. DeLoss Jahnke has the USDA crop progress and conditions report and northern rainfall numbers. Kent Casson reports from SE Livingston/Northern McLean County.

Mark Gebhards provides an update on the Senate’s passage of the Inflation Reduction Act and next steps for the bill along with details of the Call to Action for Atrazine. Terry Swails, long-time TV meteorologist in the Quad Cities talks recent rain patterns that kept going to the same areas. Early morning markets and weather.

Matt Kaye reports on the Grassley bill that would target foreign ownership of US farmland.
Bill Bodine Illinois Farm Bureau Director of Business & Regulatory Affairs as IFB follows the potential impact of ICC filings last week by utility companies. We learn about Bio-Based fertilizer with Anuvia. Precision Planting’s Dale Cook on Radical Agronomy. Early morning markets and weather.

Matt Kaye reports on “Inflation Front and Center for Agriculture”, Illinois Soybean Association District 13 Director Ed Murphy talks with Rita Frazer about crop conditions and ISA activities from Carlinville in Macoupin County. DeLoss talks with GROWMARK CEO Mark Orr and board president John Reifsteck from their system summit.

Rita Frazer has a visit with the Illinois State Fair team, State Fair Manager Rebecca Clark, IDOA Director Jerry Costello, Deputy Director Kristi Jones and Public Information Officer Krista Lisser. DeLoss talks with Clayton Pope, Clayton Pope Commodities about market uncertainty and Jim Mintert, Purdue/CME Ag Barometer talks about how that uncertainty is reflected in this months index. Jim Taylor has the early morning markets and weather.

Jim Taylor speaks with Illinois Farm Bureau Vice President Brian Duncan about the July Resolutions Committee Meeting and the next steps. DeLoss Jahnke covers the crop progress and conditions report and shares a FarmWeek Crop watcher report from Josh Sullivan in Christian County and Farm Broadcaster Kent Cassan in Livingston County. Early morning markets and weather.