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 February 16
Jim Taylor provides coverage from Illinois Farm Bureau’s Governmental Affairs Leadership Conference with a conversation with IFB President Rich Guebert. DeLoss Jahnke covers inflation news and talks…
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Wed 16 Feb 2022
RFD Illinois February 15
National Cattleman’s Beef Association’s head of international trade Kent Bacus says cattle export numbers, like total Ag exports, hit record levels last year, but trade relations need to be currently…
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Tue 15 Feb 2022
RFD Illinois February 14
Matt Kaye Reports on the Supreme Court's plans to try to clarify what the Clean Water Act means by “Waters of the US,” and whether the EPA and Army Corps have gone too far in regulating wetlands.
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Mon 14 Feb 2022
RFD Illinois February 11
Rita Frazer shares a conversations with Mark Gebhards, Illinois Farm Bureau. They discuss current state and federal legislative issues. DeLoss Jahnke talks with Phil Needham, Needham Ag Tech, about…
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Fri 11 Feb 2022
RFD Illinois February 10
WASDE update and commentary from Karl Setzer with AgriVisor. COUNTRY Connection features Ali Gibbs & Mike Huschen Illinois Valley Agency on efforts for Feeding Illinois and a Farm to Food Bank Fundr…
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Thu 10 Feb 2022
RFD Illinois February 9
Matt Kaye reports on criticism of the USDA’s spending in climate-smart commodity pilot projects.
Rita Frazer talks with IDOA Director Costello about Budget Proposals for agriculture projects and the d…
Rita Frazer talks with IDOA Director Costello about Budget Proposals for agriculture projects and the d…
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Wed 09 Feb 2022
RFD Illinois February 8
Gregg Doud, Chief ag negotiator in the Trump Administration, talks with DeLoss Jahnke about trade negotiations during his tenure. Doud will be a speaker at next week’s Governmental Affairs Leadership…
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Tue 08 Feb 2022
RFD Illinois February 7
Matt Kaye reports on a Midwest US lawmaker has issue with the New York Times over its editorial alleging the beef industry is destroying the planet. Mark Gebhards talks to Rita Frazer on the state b…
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Mon 07 Feb 2022
RFD Illinois February 4
Rita Frazer shares and update from Illinois Farm Bureau's Mark Gebhards. DeLoss cover energy supply, demand and prices in Profit Watch Energy. Steve Bridge covers the Governor Pritzker's State of th…
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Fri 04 Feb 2022
RFD Illinois February 3
Matt Kaye reports on the status of cattle market reform. Matt Witte, Bloomington meats, provides Rita Frazer an update for the small processor. AgriVisor's Karl Setzer talks markets with DeLoss Jah…
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Thu 03 Feb 2022
RFD Illinois February 2
Jim Taylor talks with DTN's John Baranick for the latest on winter storm Landon. DeLoss Jahnke talks
Groundhog Day weather and with Steve Pitstick, chair IL Soybean Association. Early morning marke…
Groundhog Day weather and with Steve Pitstick, chair IL Soybean Association. Early morning marke…
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Wed 02 Feb 2022
RFD Illinois February 1
Matt Kaye reports on a key window’s narrowing for cattle market reforms as part of an extension of Livestock Mandatory Reporting that expires with a stop-gap federal funding bill on the 18th.
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Tue 01 Feb 2022
RFD Illinois January 31
DeLoss Jahnke provides a market recap of the previous week and talks with Dan Hicks, Freese Notis weather, previewing big storm that’s coming mid-late this week. Rita Frazer shares highlights from t…
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Mon 31 Jan 2022
RFD Illinois January 28
Doug Yoder, COUNTRY Crop Agency Manager, starts the show with an update on RMA procedures and deadlines because of the COVID Environment. Matt Kaye reports on the feelings that the USDA and White Hou…
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Fri 28 Jan 2022
RFD Illinois January 27
Jim Taylor talks with Congresswoman Cheri Bustos about the importance of lock and dam funding for the upper Mississippi River system. DeLoss talks with Darren Frye, Water Street Solutions about the c…
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Thu 27 Jan 2022
RFD Illinois January 26
DeLoss Jahnke covers of a celebration of Lock and Dam Infrastructure funding in Peoria and Rita Frazer discusses the delay on Prop 12 enforcement by California Supreme Court and what that means for l…
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Wed 26 Jan 2022
RFD Illinois January 25
Matt Kaye reports on the latest on African Swine Fever with comments from Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack as he says the threat of the disease spreads close to the US. Also, Rita Frazer shares a conversati…
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Tue 25 Jan 2022
RFD Illinois January 24
IFB President Rich Guebert talks with Rita Frazer about Lock and Dam funding and livestock pricing. Steve Bridge reports with news from the Waterways Council. Gerry Beard, Beard Implement, talks wi…
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Mon 24 Jan 2022
RFD Illinois January 21
Rita Frazer talks with Rich Guebert, President Illinois Farm Bureau reacts to lock and dam funding that impacts agriculture and also covers high fertilizer prices and Prop 12 for the livestock indus…
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Fri 21 Jan 2022
RFD Illinois January 20
Jim Tarmann, Illinois Corn Growers, talks about the funding for Lock 25 on the upper Mississippi. Karl Setzer Agrivisor on market activity for the week. Nicole Bateman, Midwest Inland Port in Decatu…
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Thu 20 Jan 2022
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