RFD Illinois
Your daily rundown of the issues affecting Illinois farmers. RFD Radio hosts Rita Frazer, DeLoss Jahnke and Jim Taylor are your boots on the ground, keeping you up to date on the news stories, market trends and weather outlooks that could affect your farm. This is the daily early morning broadcast repurposed as a podcast.
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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 22 minutes
- Episodes
- 1064
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
RFD Illinois August 31, 2023
More from the Farm Progress Show: AFBF President Zippy Duvall,Renewable Fuels Assn. CEO Geoff Cooper, USDA RMA Administrator Marcia Bunger and DTN/Progressive Farmer market analyst Todd Hultman
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Thu 31 Aug 2023
RFD Illinois August 30, 2023
Coverage from the 2023 Farm Progress Show with comments from Ron Kindred, Chair, Illinois Soybean Assn. Illinois Director of Agriculture, Jerry Costello, Case IH, Doug Yoder, COUNTRY Financial and Ma…
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Wed 30 Aug 2023
RFD Illinois August 28, 2023
RFD Washington Correspondent reports on the ethanol industry's concerns over the EPA’s Science Advisory Board downplaying the climate benefits of corn ethanol in a recent report. Kurt Aumann, Aumann…
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Mon 28 Aug 2023
RFD Illinois August 25, 2023
Matt Kaye reports on legislative logistics holding up Farm Bill progress. IFB President Rich Guebert talks with Rita Frazer about presence at the upcoming Farm Progress Show. PWE with Dan Basse Ag Re…
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Fri 25 Aug 2023
RFD Illinois August 24, 2023
House Ag Chairman GT Thompson from Congressman Bost’s listening session in Effingham County. Heat talk and cancelations as a result, including the DuQuoin State Fair parade. Rhett Raythe with the 3 H…
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Thu 24 Aug 2023
RFD Illinois August 23, 2023
A fall farm bill looks less certain than expected, as House GOP leaders try to head off rebellion from the hard right flank. RFD Washington correspondent Matt Kaye reports. Jeff Galle, Coordinator of…
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Wed 23 Aug 2023
RFD Illinois August 22, 2023
Matt Kaye reports on trade woes in multiple markets. KJ Johnson previews the MAGIE Show this week. The IHSA/IPPA Pork & Pigskin’s challenge kicks off with the start of HS Football season. Recap of NA…
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Tue 22 Aug 2023
RFD Illinois August 21, 2023
AFBF’s Dave Solmonson on China Tariffs and WTO Compliance. State Ag Pest Survey Coordinator Kelly Estes on the final stretch of Insect Pressure. Trent Ford, state climatologist on this week’s heat. M…
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Mon 21 Aug 2023
RFD Illinois August 18, 2023
A key senator from the nation’s top pork producing state vows to fight in the farm bill, California Proposition 12 that bans sale of pork in the state from pigs housed in cages or crowded pens where …
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Fri 18 Aug 2023
RFD Illinois August 17, 2023
Brian Sager, Junior Livestock Superintendent recaps the Governor’s Sale of Champions. Josh Challand, Roach Ag Marketing, on low corn prices Scott Jensen, COUNTRY Financial, on mortgage rates.
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Thu 17 Aug 2023
RFD Illinois August 16, 2023
The recent downgrade of US debt by Fitch rating service risks a bigger spending fight over USDA and other spending bills in September. Matt Kaye reports.
DTN ag meteorologist John Baranick discusses…
DTN ag meteorologist John Baranick discusses…
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Wed 16 Aug 2023
RFD Illinois August 15, 2023
While Washington politicians are mired in farm bill politics, producers are focused on their everyday needs, RFD Washington correspondent Matt Kaye reports. Sounds and results from the Illinois State…
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Tue 15 Aug 2023
RFD Illinois August 10, 2023
Jim Jacobs, CEO COUNTRY Financial, talks about 2023 being the largest storm losses in the company history and the COUNTRY Team stepping up to the challenge and serving customers. Illinois Director of…
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Thu 10 Aug 2023
RFD Illinois August 9, 2023
Josh St. Peters, Executive VP of the Illinois Beef Association from the Illinois State Fair as cattle makes its way to the grounds. Curt Woolfolk, Mosaic, from their Advanced Crop Nutrition Forum in…
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Wed 09 Aug 2023
RFD Illinois August 8, 2023
Matt Kaye reports on disagreement over the Nutrition Title in the Farm Bill. KJ Johnson, Illinois Fertilizer and Chemical Association talks about the MAGIE show later this month. Megan Dieken, Illino…
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Tue 08 Aug 2023
RFD Illinois August 7, 2023
News from Washington DC and Michael Kovach Bayer Head of North American Hybrid Product Development talks what’s coming down the pipeline for DEKALB+Preceon Smart Corn System. Joe Camp, CommStock Inve…
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Mon 07 Aug 2023
RFD Illinois August 4, 2023
Russia has stepped up its attacks on Ukrainian grain export stocks, striking a main inland port across the Danube River from Romania, sending global food prices higher, RFD Correspondent Matt Kaye re…
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Fri 04 Aug 2023
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