A former Illinois Farm Bureau Young Leader chair and the winner of IFB’s 2022 Excellence in Agriculture Award will take on a national agriculture role next year. Kaylee Heap of Grundy County was appointed to American Farm Bureau Federation’s Young Farmers & Ranchers Committee. “She puts forth an outstanding effort to educate both the farming and non-farming community through her and her family’s agritourism business,” wrote IFB President Richard Guebert Jr. in his nomination letter. READ MORE