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 June 8
Rita Frazer visits with Illinois Beef Association’s Executive Director Josh St. Peters from the IBA Summer Conference. Matt Kaye reports on the Global Food Crisis and Fertilizer/Fuel supply and deman…
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Wed 08 Jun 2022
RFD Illinois June 7
Rita talks with Ukrainian farmer Gordie Siebring who was near Kyiv yesterday to pick up fungicide for his wheat crop and reports on the latest Russian attacks on agricultural elevators and fertilizer…
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Tue 07 Jun 2022
RFD Illinois June 6
Rita Frazer shares a report from Matt Kaye on the USDA announcement of CARES Act pandemic aid for the biofuels industry…while the EPA finalized even longer-delayed ethanol blending volumes. USDA fir…
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Mon 06 Jun 2022
RFD Illinois June 3
Mark Gebhards, Illinois Farm Bureau Executive Director Governmental Affairs & Commodities provides Rita Frazer with a weekly update. Profit Watch Energy: DeLoss Jahnke visit with Ryan Gentle, Wyffels…
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Fri 03 Jun 2022
RFD Illinois June 2
Correspondent Matt Kaye reports on the New Food System Transformation Framework announced by USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack. Dave Lidy Dairy and Beef Specialist Total Livestock Services South Central FS …
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Thu 02 Jun 2022
RFD Illinois June 1
Matt Kaye provides a report including commentary from Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley as he blasts the EPA for not consulting USDA in the Glyphosate Case. Jim Taylor's Farm Week Crop Watcher Report from …
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Wed 01 Jun 2022
RFD Illinois May 31
Matt Kaye reports on USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack’s confidence that Mexico will continue to allow imports of US biotech corn under USMCA trade rules, despite Mexico’s plans to ban the corn by 2024.
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Tue 31 May 2022
RFD Illinois May 30
Highlight of County Fair Season that kicks off this week. Greene County Fair Association President Jerry Joyce talks about his involvement in the county fair. Macon County Fair kicks off this week a…
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Tue 31 May 2022
RFD Illinois May 27
Supply Chain challenges with Ryan Frieders, DeKalb County Farmer and Farm Week Crop Watcher and Randy Graham, Illinois Specialty Growers Association President, and owner of Curtis Orchard. Clint Chaf…
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Fri 27 May 2022
RFD Illinois May 26
Mike Doherty, Illinois Farm Bureau/Illinois Wheat Association covers the Illinois Wheat Tour with Rita Frazer. FarmWeek's Dan Grant talks to Mark Krausz, Illinois Wheat Association President, on whea…
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Thu 26 May 2022
RFD Illinois May 25
Matt Kaye talks with Senator Chuck Grassley as he sees the Biden Indo Pacific Economic Framework as a poor substitute for the US reentering TPP. Planting report from Ted Ufkes Professional Swine Mana…
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Wed 25 May 2022
RFD Illinois May 23
Washington correspondent Matt Kaye reports on issues impacting the Ukraine export crisis. We hear from Illinois Pork Producers Association President Thomas Titus. Merrill Crowley with Ag Trader Talk …
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Mon 23 May 2022
RFD Illinois May 20
Friday's show features a conversation with Illinois Farm Bureau President Rich Guebert. Michael Bierman of South Central FS is featured in the Profit Watch Energy Report and Illinois Farm Bureau's Ta…
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Fri 20 May 2022
RFD Illinois May 19
Matt Kaye reports on key bills making their way through Congress. Grant Hammer, Executive Director of AISWCD, talks with Rita about the state Envirothon. FarmWeek’s Dan Grant shares a view from the …
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Thu 19 May 2022
RFD Illinois May 18
Matt Kaye reports on USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack’s concern about getting grain out of Ukraine longer-term, even while exporting short-term to a hungry world will be a big challenge. Don Hartman is a N…
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Wed 18 May 2022
RFD Illinois on Demand May 17
Matt Kaye reports on US and European policymakers trying to find ways to deal with a brewing global food crisis stemming from Russia’s war on Ukraine. Rita Frazer visits with Travis Meteer U of I Bee…
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Tue 17 May 2022
RFD Illinois On Demand May 16
Illinois Farm Bureau’s Mark Gebhards talks with Rita Frazer about the positive takeaways from President Biden’s visit to Illinois last week. India bans wheat exports and DeLoss Jahnke talks with Bria…
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Mon 16 May 2022
RFD Illinois On Demand May 13
Matt Kaye reports on reducing trade tariffs, with commentary from AFBF Senior Director of Congressional Relations with Dave Solmonson. Illinois Director of Agriculture Jerry Costello talks about May,…
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Fri 13 May 2022
RFD Illinois May 12
Team coverage of President Biden's visit to Illinois with reactions from FarmWeek's Tim Eggert, Kankakee County Farm Bureau President Greg St. Aubin and Illinois Farm Bureau President Richard Guebert…
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Thu 12 May 2022
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