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VERMILION COUNTY FARM BUREAU

DANVILLE, ILLINOIS

IN THIS ISSUE ...YL Achievement Award .........page 2County Annual Meeting ... pages 4-5Scholarships Available ........page 11

Food Pantry Donation ...........page 3Teacher of the Year ...............page 6IAA Annual Meeting ..... pages 12-13

Illini Farm Toy Show / Market Outlook.......................................Back Cover

DECEMBER 2010 - JANUARY 2011

Season’s Greetings

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Local Young Leaders are Achievement Award Finalists

Steve and Dawn Huls, shown with their daughter Morgan, were one of state finalists in the IFB Young Lead-ers Achievement Award program held in conjunction with the IAA An-nual Meeting.

The Young Leaders Achieve-ment Award pro-gram recognizes young leaders who have made significant strides in establishing a successful farm-ing operation. It also takes into account involvement in other as-pects of agriculture, Farm Bureau and the community.

Steve farms with his father in the Fithian/Armstrong area. Dawn teaches 5th grade at St. Joseph Middle School.

Congrats to Steve and Dawn for this statewide recognition.

FROM THE BACK PORCH

by David Sadler, PresidentVermilion County Farm Bureau

... continued on page 11

Once again we have a young leader making news at the state level. This time it’s our Young Leader Committee Chairman Steve Huls and his wife, Dawn, who are finalists for the Illinois Farm Bureau Young Leaders Achievement Award. They fol-low in the footsteps of Alan and Leesa Chesnut who were finalists just two years ago. The award will be handed out at the IFB annual meeting in St. Louis with the winner going on to AFBF in January down in At-lanta.

As many of you know, Steve is my tenant so I’m very excited about this news. As a supple-ment to the vetting process the couple is interviewed on film. The original “shooting of the movie” was set during early har-

vest but a rain delay caused it to be rescheduled for Columbus Day.

Rescheduling the shoot created two problems 1) kids weren’t in school which meant Dawn, a fifth grade teacher, couldn’t be filmed before a live audience and 2) harvest was al-most complete. Filming of the harvest would be an important part of the finished product so the only solution was to slow things down, quit early, take Sunday off, save that last acre-age for the camera. That’s not Standard Operating Procedure but it was necessary.

As the big day approached, I was asked to run the grain cart. I know you’re thinking “hasn’t he bragged about being the grain-cart driver extraordinaire” for

several years now? Quite so, EXCEPT this year we were in the process of creating a new grain system from scratch and I was the electrician-in-residence. Save for one short stint running the combine, I was relegated to virtual isolation at the bin site as I wired up the breakers, starters and motors. It was a mad dash to the completion line between the bin construction crew, the power company crew and me. Luckily we all finished at the same time.

Anyway, there I was driving the grain cart for the first time this year, following the com-bine. Finally the family arrived from shooting interior scenes at her school, in her classroom with no students. Steve relieved his dad driving the combine and off we went, camera rolling.

We were filmed from a tripod as I chased the combine up and down the field, loading on the go and dumping in the truck at the end. Then it was hand-held work as the cameraman rode in the cab interviewing Steve. Finally it was decided I was to fill the semi while being filmed from

the rear of the trailer. Mind you, this was my first time doing that job since last year and the first time filling the grain trailer.

The cameraman climbed the back of the trailer, got in posi-tion and signaled me to start my approach. I started filling the back compartment, no prob-lem. Then I pulled up to begin the final fill. Only trouble was I didn’t slow the flow down quick enough. I always try to empty the auger before shut-down even if I have to spread the last bushels out front or aft and this time was no exception. Result? Rear compartment was slightly overloaded as splattered corn engulfed the photographer. I’d be surprised if that part made the final cut.

After the camera lens was cleaned, everyone gathered round the camera to chat. While we talked about harvest and yields, most of the time was spent interacting with eighteen month old daughter, Morgan, who wasn’t overly talkative that day but was perfectly content waving bye-bye to everyone.

By Lynne Finnerty

Health officials are sound-ing alarms about our obesity epidemic. Since 1980, obesity has doubled among adults and tripled among children, accord-ing to the Centers for Disease Control.

Meanwhile, food purists pro-claim foods commonly available from the supermarket at an af-fordable price to be inferior to foods grown without the use of modern techniques. They say that “authentic” foods produced the way they might have been decades ago taste better and are more nutritious than what’s on the shelf at the A&P.

There’s just one problem. Assuming that people don’t eat

food that doesn’t taste good, does the food purists’ assertion run into a wall of blubber?

We have a national obsession with food. There are magazines, newspaper columns and blogs devoted to how to cook it, the best places to eat it and the fan-ciest tools for making and serv-ing it.

It’s a multibillion dollar busi-ness. High-end kitchen products retailer Williams-Sonoma earns more than $3 billion a year and has just announced robust prof-its for the most recent quarter, despite the recession. The Food Network is among the most pop-ular cable channels. Profession-al appliances from Aga, Wolf and Blue Star cost several times the price of more run-of-the-mill ranges, and they’re all the rage.

Is Our Food Too Good?

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BOOSTERPublished Bi-monthly by the

VERMILION COUNTY FARM BUREAUKerry Wienke, Editor

1905-C U.S. Route 150Danville, Illinois 61832Phone (217) 442-8713

OFFICE HOURSMonday–Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

OFFICERSPresident .............................David SadlerVice-President ......................Mark WillardSecretary ................................Bruce DarrTreasurer ............................. Dennis Smith

STAFFExecutive Director ..............Kerry WienkeDirector of Information ............ Tom FrickeOffice Secretary ............... Nancy DuncanAg Literacy Coordinator .......Staci Walker

DIRECTORS

District 1Garrett Douglass Jon FourezDavid Heckerson Rick JamesMark Willard

District 2Doug Cunningham Kevin KemnaGreg Cunningham Steve LaneJarrod Dice

District 3Alan Chesnut Bruce DarrBryan Darr Stewart SheetsDennis Smith

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Calendar of EventsDecember 24-27 .........OFFICE CLOSED – Merry ChristmasDecember 31 ...............OFFICE CLOSED – Happy New YearJanuary 5-7 .........................IL Specialty Growers ConferenceJanuary 7-9 .............................................Illini Farm Toy ShowJanuary 9-12 ........................................AFBF Annual MeetingJanuary 10 ......................................Young Leaders CommitteeJanuary 17 .........................................Market Outlook SeminarJanuary 20 ...................................................Board of DirectorsJanuary 26-27 .......................... Midwest Ag Expo, GordyvilleJanuary 28 ...................Private Applicators Training & TestingJanuary 28-30 ........................ IFB Young Leaders ConferenceJanuary 30 ............................................DACC Farm Toy ShowFebruary 5 ..................................... Pheasants Forever BanquetFebruary 14 ....................................Young Leaders CommitteeFebruary 16-19 .........Nat’l Farm Machinery Show, LouisvilleFebruary 17 .................................................Board of DirectorsFebruary 20-26 .......................................Food Checkout WeekFebruary 23-24 .........................IFB Gov’t Affairs Conference

For further information on any of these activities, contact the Vermilion County Farm Bureau office at (217) 442-8713 or visit us on the web at www.vcfb.info.

One in eight Americans doesn’t know where his or her next meal will come from. Illi-nois Farm Bureau Young Lead-ers want to create a movement to end hunger here in Illinois with a program we call Harvest for All.

Harvest for All is a joint ef-fort between Young Leaders and Feeding Illinois, in which farm-ers and ag professionals help ensure that everyone can enjoy the bounty produced on Illinois’ farms.

Last year, Illinois Farm Bureau took top honors in the American Farm Bureau for raising the most funds, raising $92,112.

Young Leaders Donate to Local Food Pantry Over $14,000 of that amount

was generated through the sale of a collectible semi-trailer truck toy. Proceeds from the truck sale were distributed to counties with active Young Leaders / Young Farmers Committees.

Vermilion County Farm Bu-reau recently donated their $275 portion to the St. James United Methodist Church Food Pantry.

Carol Olson, the food pan-try coordinator, said the pantry serves more than 300 families during their once-a-month dis-tribution. The pantry served a record 325 families at their No-vember distribution so the dona-tion came at just the right time.

Illinois Farm Bureau is sell-ing anther toy truck again this year – an anhydrous tank truck model. To order now, download

an order form by visiting the Vermilion County Farm Bureau website at www.vcfb.info and click on the tank truck.

The Vermilion County Farm Bureau Young Leaders Committee member Kelli Lyons (right) presents a $275 check to the coordinator of St. James Food Pantry, Carol Olson.

Water Quality Coalition to Host Natural Resources Workshop

The Lake Vermilion Water Quality Coalition is sponsor-ing a Natural Resources Work-shop for landowners, farmers, and farm managers that will take place Tuesday, January 11, 2011.

The free workshop will cover several practices and USDA pro-grams that benefit the soil and water on farms.

Topics include Wet Area Man-agement, Nutrient Management Plans, Conservation, and Tillage Creation of Wildlife Habitat.

Speakers include fellow pro-ducers and staff from NRCS, University of Illinois and Pheas-ants Forever.

The workshop will be at the Rossville Fire Department from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., and a free lunch is included.

Reservations are required by January 7th. For information, contact Cindy Johnston at 217-442-8511, ext. 3.

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FROM THE MANAGER’s DESK

by Kerry Wienke, Executive DirectorVermilion County Farm Bureau

Foundation Raises Over $1,600 in Silent Auction

The 5th annual Vermilion County Farm Bureau Foundation’s Silent Auction was again a great success. The auction has become a regular feature of the Annual Meeting.

Members placed bids on 25 items, from a $100 savings bond to a watercolor print, a movie night basket to driveway rock and much more.

In addition, a raffle for a $100 gift card, donated by Illini FS, was part of the evening, with Jill Cunningham winning the prize for a second year.

We would like to thank our Silent Auction donors and purchasers who made our event a great success!

Auction DonorsCountry Financial – Rick Rotramel WDAN – D-102Danville Dans – Jeanie Cooke Beef HouseBrian & Norma Andrews Birkey’sPrairie Farms Dairy Cox MemorialsD & C Blasting & Coating Brian NevilleUnited Community Bank Staci WalkerSleepy Creek VineyardsKerry & Tara Wienke Country Financial – Alan PuzeyTom & Mary Ellen Fricke

Auction BuyersNancy Boesdorfer Alan ChesnutBob Finley & Dolores Green Bob GernandChris & Evonne Hausman David BrownJim & Sharon McMahon June ClemonsKammie Richter Kerry WienkeMatt & Amy Hoose Lois ChesnutSteve & Dawn Huls Margaret DoranKris Suchaczewski Tony Augustine

Bob Finley and Dolores Green pose with their auction purchase, a horse collar clock made and donated by Brian Andrews.

Every year I try to condense 12 months of Farm Bureau activities into a single report. It is a formidable challenge given the number and wide variety of programs.

Involvement with local issues, providing members’ input on state and national policies, delivery of educational programs, hosting community events, and offering discount services are general types of Farm Bureau activities.

Specific functions included coal mine informational meetings, de-fensive driving and healthcare programs, Food Checkout Day activities, estate tax action requests, Illinois Fair Map petition drive, candidate fo-rums, Leaders to DC trips, Young Leader and FFA activities, Commodity Challenge and Market Outlook programs, state budget and school funding meetings, member appreciation night, and adopted legislator visits. Other events of the year to note include: Bunge ceasing soybean processing lo-cally; the retirement of State Rep. Bill Black after 25 years of tireless ser-vice; and a historic federal midterm election.

Farm Bureau programming is a result of people getting involved. I ap-plaud the board of directors, committee members, volunteers and staff. It is the combined effort of everyone that makes this a thriving organization.

Several individuals were recognized this year for outstanding service. Dave Sadler received the Vermilion Advantage Ag Leader Award; Steve and Dawn Huls are finalists for the IFB Young Leaders Achievement Award; Richard Layden was selected as a Farmer Idea Exchange Contest winner; Staci Walker received the IL Leadership Council for Ag Education’s Perry Schneider Award; and Dr. Kammie Richter was named as the 2010-2011 IL Ag in the Classroom Teacher of the Year.

Statewide recognitions of Vermilion County’s Ag in the Classroom program are well-deserved. This year we reached 68% of the county stu-dents with free educational presentations and materials. Your support of the Vermilion County Farm Bureau Foundation, which funds ag literacy programs, is vital to this endeavor.

Membership stands at 5,793 families – consisting of 1,304 farming and 4,489 associates. This marks 5 consecutive years of farming member gains and 7 out of 9 years of total membership growth. Vermilion County was one of only 21 counties in the state to attain farm, total and retention goals.

Financially, income and expense numbers were much better than bud-geted projections. Revenue was up 3.3% from last year, while expenses were 4.3% lower. This reflects a positive net income, a welcome change after two years of losses.

This year marks my 20th anniversary with Vermilion County Farm Bureau. I consider myself blessed to work for a great organization and fortunate to be associated with so many wonderful people. Thank you for your involvement and support.

As we look forward to next year, there will not be a shortage of is-sues to address or work to be done. Injecting common sense in cap and trade discussions, stopping regulatory overreach through the Clean Water Act, preserving the livestock industry and dealing with animal activism, and presenting farmers’ thoughts on the upcoming Farm Bill are a few ex-amples. I encourage you to get involved. Otherwise, someone else with a different agenda will be speaking for you.

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Vermilion County Farm Bureau Annual MeetingHighlights

With the largest crowd since 1999, over 150 were in attendance at the 2010 Vermilion County Farm Bureau Annual Meeting. The event was held at the Beef House Banquet Center in Covington, IN.

During the business meeting, President David Sadler recognized Roger Read, retiring general manager with Illini FS. Roger has been in the agriculture ser-vice area for 43 years, including the last four years at

Illini FS.

The guest speaker for the evening was State Representative Bill Black. Rep. Black has represented Vermilion County in the Illinois General Assembly since his appointment in February of 1996. He talked about his thoughts on the importance of being a good representative, and shared many stories – both humorous and touching – over the past twenty-five years. A scholarship fund in honor of State Representative Black has been established at Danville Area Community College, and Vermilion County Farm Bu-reau made a $250 contribution to that scholarship fund.

congrAtulAtions to the following directors that were re-elected to the board for three year terms:

Greg Cunningham - BismarckBruce Darr - Fairmount

Jon Fourez - RankinDave Heckerson - Potomac

Kevin Kemna - Danville

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Leadership Tomorrow Has Agriculture Day – The Leadership Tomorrow program through Vermilion Advantage is a nine-session training program designed to develop quality leaders while exposing them to current issues and information affecting Vermilion County. One session every year is Agriculture Day, with sessions on production agriculture, conservation practices, and Ag in the Classroom. Shown above, Marsha Mohr describes her farm operation and some of the challenges facing agriculture today.

Dr. Kammie Richter, an Oakwood Junior High School eighth grade teacher, has been named the 2011 Illinois Agriculture in the Classroom Teacher of the Year. The award is presented by the Illinois Agriculture in the Classroom program.

The announcement was made in a school assembly at Oakwood Jr. High on Mon-day, November 22. Dr. Richter will receive a trip to the 2011 National Agriculture in the Classroom Conference in Ft. Lauder-dale, Florida. She will also be the Illinois nominee for the National Excellence in Teaching Agriculture Award.

In addition to the state-wide recognition, she receives a $100 gift cer-tificate to Shick School and Office Supplies. This certificate is sponsored by Vermilion County Farm Bureau and Shick School and Office Supplies and will allow Richter to pur-chase more school supplies for her class-room.

Dr. Richter has been an enthusiastic sup-porter of Ag in the Classroom. She has uti-lized the program through classroom materi-als and presentations given by Ag Literacy Coordinator Staci Walker. In addition, she has attended two Summer Ag Institutes – a week-long training program providing teachers farming resources for their class-rooms. During her second session she wrote two feature articles for the Commercial-

Oakwood Teacher Named Illinois Ag Teacher of the Year

The class also took a tour of Doug and Vickie Miller’s farm museum on their farm. In the above photo, Cliff Jolley (2nd from left) led the group through the museum, explaining what some of the equipment was – like this check-planter – and how things have changed in farming over the years.

News describing the Summer Ag Institute Program.

Dr. Richter and Walker have also col-laborated on lesson plans and presentations at the last two National Ag in the Classroom Conferences.

Dr. Richter and her husband own a small family farm, and she is able to incorporate agriculture lessons into her existing cur-riculum on a regular basis in both Social Studies and Art. Her unique methods of incorporating agriculture include units on

economics, careers, food and culture. Richter pro-vides opportunities for her students to experience agriculture, food produc-tion and food science in innovative ways including her Assembly Line Antics program, where students produce a snack mix, each representing a different part of the food delivery chain, or her example of

grocery store employment opportunities. Local history and agriculture are also fea-tured in relation to both Lincoln and Deere and the important contributions they both made to agriculture that still exist today.

Dr. Richter strives to teach her students the importance of American agriculture on a daily basis. Her commitment to her stu-dents and her dedication to Agriculture in the Classroom is to be commended, thereby making Dr. Kammie Richter this year’s lead-er for Illinois.

Agriculture in the Classroom FinalistsRunner Up for Teacher of the Year is

Bobbi Callmer, second grade teacher at Lis-bon Grade School, Newark, Kendall County, Illinois. Other finalists for the Teacher of the Year Award include: Laura Rapach, Davis Elementary School, St. Charles, Kane Coun-ty; Ellen Steenrod, Pearl City School, Pearl City, Stephenson County; Deborah Daehler, River Bend Middle School, Fulton, White-side County.

Ag career flashcards hang from the ceiling of Dr. Richter’s room at Oakwood Jr. High School.

Dr. Kammie Richter is shown with her prize a photo of an apple blossom after being named Illinois’ Agriculture Teacher of the Year at a school assembly at Oakwood Junior High. She is also a nominee for the National Excellence in Teaching Agriculture Award.

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KESLER, GARMAN, BROUGHER & TOWNSLEY, P.C.LAW OFFICES

220 N. Vermilion, Danville, IL – 446-0880

James L. Brougher Scott E. Perkins

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IAA FoundationApplications for IAA Foun-

dation scholarships are being accepted now through February 1, 2011. Over $62,000 in ag-ricultural scholarships will be awarded to 42 college students, helping assure that a well quali-fied and professional agricultur-al workforce will be available to agriculture in Illinois.

The scholarships are award-ed on the basis of exceptional scholastic ability and/or finan-cial need. Applicants may have been recipients of a previous IAA Foundation scholarship.

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More than $64,000 in Scholarships Available for Ag Students, Farm Kids

Is Our Food Too Good?

Maybe the issue isn’t the food itself, but our preoccupa-tion with it.

It wasn’t so long ago that we didn’t have television networks devoted to food, most of us cooked on stoves from Sears, we had fewer restaurant choices and cooking with fresh herbs was the height of foodie-ism.

We also didn’t have quite so many varieties of food. There were two types of potato chips – plain or rippled. Now, there are dozens. All of this choice is not a bad thing, but it can make it more difficult to “eat just one.”

Roasting a chicken used to be a simple affair – salt, pep-per and a few other seasonings. Now, thanks to our insatiable ap-petite for new, gourmet ways of cooking and a media that feeds it, we’re more likely to slip fresh sage leaves and herb butter un-der the roaster’s skin, the pep-per is freshly ground, the salt is from the sea, the cavity is filled with lemons and garlic and we might add some white wine to the roasting pan. With all due respect to mom, who put a solid

meal on the table more regularly than most of us do nowadays, a 21st century gourmet roasted chicken (including that “super-market bird”) is amazing.

Food is just as good today as it’s ever been, if not better. And, thanks to modern agricul-ture, there’s plenty of it to go around.

With so many delicious foods and our national fixation on all things food-related, maybe it’s just up to us (as it’s always been) to decide how much is enough. As much as it’s tempting to blame someone else when your jeans feel too tight, there are no mystery ingredients or produc-tion methods that have shifted the paradigm or changed the ba-sic rule – calories in should not exceed calories out.

It’s the job of farmers and ranchers to grow the food. It’s our job to determine how much of it we should eat. Farmers and ranchers are doing their jobs. Are we doing ours?

Lynne Finnerty is the editor of FBNews, the newspaper of the American Farm Bureau Federation.

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Foundation Scholarships, call (309) 557-2230.

Balloon Association of Greater Illinois

The Balloon Association of Greater Illinois (BAGI) annu-ally awards a scholarship to a Farm Bureau member student majoring in agriculture or an ag-related program. This year, BAGI will again be awarding up to four $500 scholarships.

BAGI is a non-profit asso-ciation organized to promote the sport of hot air ballooning by bringing together pilots and potential crew. The club has approximately 90 members rep-resenting more than 45 balloon teams.

The scholarship will be awarded on the basis of scholas-

tic ability, community involve-ment, and/or financial need. A packet outlining the eligibility requirements and an applica-tion are available on the as-sociation’s website at www.bagiballoon.org.

The applications need to be received in the Vermilion County Farm Bureau office by March 31, 2011.

For more information about the BAGI scholarship program, contact Larry Owen at (217) 304-0827 or larry@owenfinancial.com.

Freese Memorial Scholarship

Immanuel Lutheran Church of Flatville is offer-ing four $500 scholarships to sons and daughters of farmers in memory of Ed and Helen Freese.

This scholarship is avail-able to residents of Vermilion, Ford, or Champaign Counties, and is available to new and current college students. Com-pleted forms need to be deliv-ered to the Champaign County Farm Bureau by February 11, 2011.

Andrews/Brumett Scholarship

The Vermilion County Farm Bureau Foundation is pleased to once again administer the An-drews/Brumett Memorial Schol-arship for the 2011 school year.

The Andrews/Brumett Me-morial Scholarship honors the late Clark & Katharyn Andrews and Joe & Agnes Brumett, Sr. Even though these men never achieved higher education or even finished high school, they used their formal education, along with common sense and hard work to succeed in life.

A $500 scholarship will be awarded to a graduating high school student living in Ver-milion County and planning to attend DACC. Criteria used for selection will be scholastic achievements, community ser-vice and financial need. Priority will be given to Farm Bureau members and dependents.

Application forms will be distributed to Vermilion County high schools, and are also avail-able at the Farm Bureau office and online at www.vcfb.info. Applications need to be received in the Vermilion County Farm Bureau office by April 8, 2010.

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Delegates at the Illinois Farm Bureau Annual Meeting approved resolutions dealing with the upcoming 2012 Farm Bill and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency at the orga-nization’s 96th annual meeting December 4-7 in St. Louis.

In a resolution related to the 2012 Farm Bill, delegates creat-ed a top tier of favored programs that includes direct payments and enhancements to both the Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) program and crop insur-ance in advance of the American Farm Bureau Federation annual meeting in Atlanta in January. The resolution indicates the del-egations’ support for a bill that is consistent with U.S. obligations under the World Trade Organi-zation and maintains funding levels in the 2008 Farm Bill.

“Today’s action gives our leaders the flexibility to partici-pate fully in the upcoming de-bate in Atlanta and over the next year,” said Mark Gebhards, IFB Executive Director of Govern-mental Affairs & Commodities.

Delegates approved new policy language supporting a requirement for the U.S. EPA to collaborate with the United

IFB Delegates Set Policy on Farm Bill, Discuss EPA

States Department of Agricul-ture (USDA) in the development of conservation and clean air and water regulations impacting agriculture.

Delegates also approved a Sense of the Delegate Body Res-olution urging Congress to hold a series of oversight hearings on U.S. EPA’s regulatory over-reach, to pass legislation to strip the agency of its authority to regulate greenhouse gases, and to cut the agency’s budget as an effort to restore common sense to environmental regulation.

“We believe EPA has greatly overstepped its authority and has burdened the nation’s farm-ers over the past two years with a seemingly never-ending and overwhelming onslaught of new and proposed regulations,” said Philip Nelson, IFB President.

“These new and proposed regulations ignore our contri-butions to the environment and affect virtually every aspect of a farming operation. They threat-en to take valuable tools out of the hands of American farmers, drive up production costs, and, in many cases, defy logic,” Nel-son added.

Delegates also discussed

Grain Inspection, Packers & Stockyards Administration (GIPSA), and in particular how it functions in terms of contracts.

“So much of what we do in grain and livestock is in the contract arena, and there was a call that we try to surface more potential board members for GIPSA’s Grain Inspection Ad-visory Committee to increase the farmer representation on that committee,” Gebhards said. He noted that the committee is cur-rently made up of a lot of grain merchandisers and elevator per-sonnel, and this was to get more farmer representation involved in that committee.

Other topics discussed in-cluded infrastructure and trans-portation, and the state budget and ways to help bring it in bal-ance.

The delegate voting was the culmination of the IFB’s reso-lutions process which began over the summer, during which county Farm Bureaus and their individual members can offer resolutions for consideration first by a resolutions committee and, ultimately, by the IFB vot-ing delegates.

Three new members were elected to the IFB Board. Begin-ning two-year terms are Brad Temple of Serena in LaSalle County, District 4; Randy J. Poskin of Ashkum in Iroquois County, District 6; and David L. Severn of St. Augustine in Knox County, District 8.

Mark Willard (2nd from left) discusses one of the policy issues with IFB District 12 Board member, Chris Hausman (right), as Vermilion County delegates (left to right) Mike Marron, Bryan Darr and Dennis Smith listen in.

IFB Vice President Rich Guebert (left) talks with Vermilion County’s Alan Chesnut and David Sadler prior to the start of the IFB’s delegate session. Guebert chairs the IFB Resolutions Committee on which Sadler and Chesnut both vice-chaired sub-committees and presented resolutions to the delegate body for consideration.

Steve Lane puts a donation in the Harvest for All bucket that was passed around the District 12 Caucus as Doug Cunningham has a donation ready. Harvest for All is a fundraising program coordinated by the IFB Young Leaders Committee to help fight hunger in Illinois.

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“The agriculture industry is at a ‘crossroads’ as many people outside of ag, such as activists and regulators, are trying to in-fluence how farmers conduct their business,” Philip Nelson, President of the Illinois Farm Bureau, said during his keynote address at the IFB annual meet-ing in St. Louis.

Nelson, therefore, urged IFB members to tell their side of the story to consumers, lawmakers, and others in a grass-roots ef-fort to educate the general pub-lic about food production and improve the image of America’s farmers.

“Consumers really do ap-preciate the food they eat,” Nel-son said. “But they don’t know much about agriculture” based on research done with the Farm-er Image Campaign conducted by Illinois Farm Bureau and the state’s major commodity organi-zations.

Some of the recent research found there’s a growing percep-tion that most of the food in the U.S. is produced by corporately-owned, industrial scale agricul-ture.

“This is one of the miscon-ceptions we need to address,” Nelson said. “We know fam-ily farmers are not going by the wayside. In fact, 94 percent of farms in Illinois are family-run.”

IFB and the American Farm Bureau Federation in response joined the U.S. Farm and Ranch Alliance, which has a goal of raising $20 million to $30 mil-lion that will be used to educate consumers about food produc-tion. Nelson also encouraged IFB members, which this year total a record-high 426,043, to get involved in consumer events, use social media, and train school children to help close the information gap and improve the image of farmers. He noted the

IFB President Nelson Urges Members to Protect, Enhance Farmer Image

Ag in the Classroom program already has touched the lives of more than 400,000 children in Illinois.

Another challenge to pro-duction agriculture is the threat of increased regulations. Nelson fears the possibility of every-thing from dust permits to the elimination of the popular herbi-cide atrazine could hinder farm-ers’ ability to produce food.

“I believe a tsunami (in the form of regulatory challenges) is headed toward agriculture like we’ve never seen before,” he said.

Nelson also called on Con-gress to either repeal the death tax or increase the exemption levels. If left unchanged, the death tax on Jan. 1 would revert back to an exemption level of $1 million per person and a 55 per-cent tax rate.

“It’s time for Congress to ad-dress this to protect farms and small businesses in this coun-try,” the IFB Pr esident said. He also called on Congress to move forward with a trade agenda to reach President Obama’s goal of doubling U.S. exports in the next five years.

At the state level Nelson believes it is crucial to address the fiscal challenge of a $12.5 billion deficit and improve a business climate that has lost 500,000 manufacturing jobs in the past decade.

“With the challenges we see opportunities. I believe we have a bright future,” Nelson con-cluded. “But we need all of you (IFB members) working togeth-er to accomplish that.”

Farmers Exchanging Ideas – Richard Layden, of Hoopeston (right) visits with another member at the IAA Annual Meeting while displaying his AFBF Farmer Idea Exchange entry. This year’s entry is a Drip Free Pour Spout. Richard will be attending the American Farm Bureau Federation Annual Meeting in Atlanta the first part of January to compete in the national contest, which he has done several times before. He urges other members to enter the contest with their inventions or ideas to make life easier on the farm.

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