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 July 6
Matt Kaye reports from Washington on potential impacts of mid-term Elections on the next farm bill. Rita Frazer visits with Tasha Bunting Associate Director Livestock & Dairy Programs Illinois Farm …
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Wed 06 Jul 2022
RFD Illinois July 5
Rita Frazer catches up with Gordie Siebring in the Ukraine for an update on wheat harvest and other conditions. Tim Gross, National Weather Service in the Quad Cities on heat and high overnight temps…
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Tue 05 Jul 2022
RFD Illinois July 4
An update from Gordie Siebring, a former Iowa resident, now farming in the Ukraine. He updates us on wheat harvest and other current events in the war-ravaged country. July 4 weather observations fr…
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Tue 05 Jul 2022
RFD Illinois July 1
Rita Frazer visits with Mark Gebhards Illinois Farm Bureau. He offers post-primary election comments and highlights news from the Global Food Forum held in Chicago this week. Profit Watch Energy: S…
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Fri 01 Jul 2022
RFD Illinois June 30
Rita Frazer reports from Illinois Soybean Association’s Media Tour with a conversation with ISA Board Member Ron Kindred, Logan County. Ahead of report day, DeLoss Jahnke shares market commentary fro…
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Thu 30 Jun 2022
RFD Illinois June 29
Matt Kaye reports on movement of the Senate Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act.
Tim Maiers, Executive Director Upper Mississippi Illinois Missouri River Association that focuses on river tran…
Tim Maiers, Executive Director Upper Mississippi Illinois Missouri River Association that focuses on river tran…
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Wed 29 Jun 2022
RFD Illinois June 28
Tuesday's show kicks off with a report of a USDA Trade Mission to the UK. Rita Frazer then speaks with Lizzie Schafer and Waylon Paulek with the Taylorville FFA Livestock Judging Team in Scotland at…
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Tue 28 Jun 2022
RFD Illinois June 27
Rita Frazer gets an update from Illinois Farm Bureau's Mark Gebhards. Jim Taylor talks with IFB's Senior Economist Mike Doherty and WCIA Meteorologist Jacob Dickey. Wrap up with information on a ru…
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Mon 27 Jun 2022
RFD Illinois June 24
Matt Kaye shares USTR Katherine Tai’s response to questions on lowering the prices of fertilizer and other inputs that are imported from out of the country. Kaye also provides news on the USDA submi…
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Fri 24 Jun 2022
RFD Illinois June 23
Matt Kaye reports on the Senate Ag Committee passage of the Meat & Poultry Special Investigator act and Cattle Price Discovery & Transparency acts. Congressman Darin LaHood talks about Caterpillar’s …
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Thu 23 Jun 2022
RFD Illinois June 22
Matt Kaye reports on movement of the cattle price transparency and discovery act and Rita Frazer gets a wheat harvest update from Kyle Braase in Madison County. Weekly crop planting and conditions r…
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Wed 22 Jun 2022
RFD Illinois June 21
Rita Frazer shares an update from Illinois Farm Bureau's Mark Gebhards. Jim Taylor talks heat wave with Dan Hix, Freese Notis weather and other factors impacting the markets with Joe Camp, CommStock…
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Tue 21 Jun 2022
RFD Illinois June 20
Todd Steinacher Corn & Soybean Product Manager Nutrien, talks late week rain and wind Illinois, plus offers overall crop condition thoughts for late June. We talk heat with Chuck Collins, WEEK metero…
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Mon 20 Jun 2022
RFD Illinois June 17
Friday's show features coverage from the Illinois FFA Convention in Springfield. We also hear the latest Profit Watch Energy report, which includes a conversation with Garrett Lindell from Lindell Ae…
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Fri 17 Jun 2022
RFD Illinois June 16
Jim Taylor provides coverage from the Illinois FFA Convention in Springfield. DeLoss Jahnke speaks with Scott Jensen, Country Financial, on inflation and lack of investor confidence. Plus overnight m…
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Thu 16 Jun 2022
RFD Illinois June 15
Wednesday's show includes reminders from Illinois Farm Bureau's Lauren Lurkins about dicamba application. We also highlight FarmWeekNow coverage about power outages and we hear from Steve Johnson fro…
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Wed 15 Jun 2022
RFD Illinois June 14
Matt Kaye reports on President Biden's position on ethanol and specifically E15 waiver this summer. We also take a deep dive into the latest crop conditions. Plus a check of overnight markets and a b…
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Tue 14 Jun 2022
RFD Illinois June 13
Monday's show features a conversation with Illinois Farm Bureau Executive Director of Governmental Affairs and Commodities Mark Gebhards. He discusses the Renewable Fuel Standard and the Water Resour…
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Mon 13 Jun 2022
RFD Illinois June 10
Friday's show includes more coverage from Rita Frazer at the Illinois Beef Association and IFGC Forage Expo held this week in Macomb. Friday's show also features DeLoss Jahnke's Profit Watch Energy R…
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Fri 10 Jun 2022
RFD Illinois June 9
Rita Frazer shares Part 2 of a June update with Gordie Siebring in the Ukraine as he reports on "farming during a war" and offers updates on the factors that impact the world from food supplies to ga…
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Thu 09 Jun 2022
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