RFD Illinois June 19, 2023

A suddenly changed political environment for budgeting on Capitol Hill is posing new challenges for farm bill writers, already facing a daunting October 1st deadline to complete work on a new bill. RFD Washington correspondent Matt Kaye reports. Mark Gebhards Executive Director Gov’t Affairs and Commodities Illinois Farm Bureau highlights the AFBF fly-in last week and conversations surrounding Immigration & Workforce Development Dan Grant shares a conversation with Matt Shipton, seed industry representative from Delavan and descendant of James Reid, discusses the development of Reid's Yellow Dent Corn on a farm on the northeast edge of Delavan in Tazewell County in the late 1800s.