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 March 15, 2023
Matt Kaye reports on the challenges of writing a new farm bill. Grant Hammer Executive Director Association of Illinois Soil & Water Conservation Districts talk about Soil Health Day last week in Ill…
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Wed 15 Mar 2023
RFD Illinois March 14, 2023
RFD Washington Correspondent reports on the backlash of Brazil's delay in reporting cases of Mad Cow disease. Rita Frazer visits with Jennifer Tirey, Illinois Pork Producers from National Pork Forum…
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Tue 14 Mar 2023
RFD Illinois March 13, 2023
RFD Correspondent Matt Kaye reports on the US House vote to repeal, on a largely symbolic 227-198 vote, the EPA’s WOTUS rule. The Senate could follow suit as soon as this week. Josh St. Peters Illino…
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Mon 13 Mar 2023
RFD Illinois March 10, 2023
Scott Walker, Corn Product Marketing Manager with Pioneer/Corteva, shares his family’s long history with Pioneer Seed. Illinois Pork Producers President Chad Leman talks with Rita Frazer about pig he…
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Fri 10 Mar 2023
RFD Illinois March 8, 2023
A report on the future of the Biden EPA WOTUS Rule. Mark Gebhards, Illinois Farm Bureau, talks about IFB’s Leaders to Washington trip. Illinois Department of Agriculture Director Jerry Costello on th…
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Wed 08 Mar 2023
RFD Illinois March 7, 2023
Matt Kaye reports on Farm Bill funding needs for reference prices that trigger PLC and ARC County payments. Lauren Lurkins, Director of Environmental Policy,Illinois Farm Bureau reports on the Illino…
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Tue 07 Mar 2023
RFD Illinois March 6, 2023
A report on national security and farm interests. Sounds and conversations from the Illinois Food Products Expo in Springfield featuring Jacky Sambursky Bureau Chief of Marketing & Promotion Illinois…
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Mon 06 Mar 2023
RFD Illinois March 3
Illinois Farm Bureau's Executive Director of Governmental Affairs Mark Gebhards provides an update on legislative and regulatory issues. We learn about importance of lubricants ahead of planting from…
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Fri 03 Mar 2023
RFD Illinois March 2
Conservation spending was in sharp focus at a Senate Ag hearing as lawmakers start to deal with program shortcomings in the next farm bill. Geoff Cooper, Renewable Fuels Association CEO-President, ta…
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Thu 02 Mar 2023
RFD Illinois March 1
The farm bill funding squeeze is on as farmers face increasing financial and regulatory headwinds amid competing nutrition interests in the next 5-year Ag bill. Those challenges were on full display …
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Wed 01 Mar 2023
RFD Illinois February 28
A report from Washington on the USDA action to start a H-2A Guest Worker program. Rita Frazer visits with Kyle Johnson, Villa Rosa Dairy in Bond County, talks about storm damage last week on their f…
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Tue 28 Feb 2023
RFD Illinois February 27
The Black Sea Grain Initiative is set to expire next month, and USDA’s Chief Economist Seth Meyer told USDA’s annual Ag Outlook Forum, he’s concerned what happens next. Trevor Toland Macomb, and Chri…
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Mon 27 Feb 2023
RFD Illinois February 24
Matt Kaye reports from the USDA Ag Outlook Forum. Number and highlights from the Illinois Beef Expo & Illinois Performance Tested Bull Sale including comments from sale manager Travis Meteer and Curt…
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Fri 24 Feb 2023
RFD Illinois February 23
Rich Guebert President of the Illinois Farm Bureau talks the importance of the Farm Bill and upcoming AFBF meeting in Arizona. Travis Meteer, U of I Extension Beef Specialist, talks today’s Illinois …
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Thu 23 Feb 2023
RFD Illinois February 22
Matt Kaye reports on 2023 farm bill talks needing bipartisanship to reconcile spending for food stamps versus commodity, crop insurance and conservation programs. Friday marks one year since the Russ…
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Wed 22 Feb 2023
RFD Illinois February 20
Matt Kaye reports from Washington DC. Dr. Matt Montgomery Pioneer Field Agronomist talks spring planting tips and says there are diseases for the 2023 Watch List. From the National Farm Machinery Sho…
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Tue 21 Feb 2023
RFD Illinois February 21
Mark Gebhards Executive Director Govt Affairs & Commodities Illinois Farm Bureau recaps the success of GALC, bills IFB is monitoring in the General Assembly and the Governor’s Budget. Chad Whitehead,…
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Tue 21 Feb 2023
RFD Illinois February 17
Lauren Lurkins, Director of Environmental Policy Illinois Farm Bureau, talks about the EPA announcement yesterday that changes the label for the post-emergent use of Dicamba for Illinois, Indiana and…
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Fri 17 Feb 2023
RFD Illinois February 16
News from Washington as allocation of funds for the Farm Bill are discussed. Jim Taylor reports from Governmental Affairs Leadership Conference and Travis Meteer Illinois Performance Tested Bull Sale…
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Thu 16 Feb 2023
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