Matt Jungmann, national events manager for Farm Progress, talks about this year’s Farm Progress Show. 2023 marks the event’s 10th time in Decatur, Illinois. He discusses the site’s crop conditions, the event’s largest varied industries tent and what’s new this year. The Farm Progress Show will take place Aug. 29-31. Listen here

Dave Mool, a FarmWeek CropWatcher from McLean County, received some crop-saving rains recently. “We look excellent now,” he said after receiving 3 inches of rain. He provides an update on his corn and soybean crop, pasture conditions and more with RFD’s Jim Taylor. Listen here

Guebert was in the nation’s captial for AFBF’s Council of Presidents and also met up with the IFB Leaders to Washington group. (Photo by Mark Gebhards)  

California’s Proposition 12 will likely lead to increased costs for farmers, higher pork prices for consumers and impact international trade and market access. Christina Weller, an attorney who practices agribusiness law in Stephenson County, and Illinois pork producers outlined their concerns in meetings with Illinois members of Congress. “One solution is having USDA be the regulator instead of the states,” Weller said.   Read more

From short corn to tight hay supplies, Illinois farmers met with members of Congress and shared how the drought is impacting their operations. They stressed the importance of maintaining crop insurance and the ag safety net in the 2023 farm bill. “No farmer is out there looking to make his living off of crop insurance payments or farm bill payments, but it is nice that when certain things happen that are uncontrollable there is a safety net in place that allows to help the industry,” said Gary Tretter, a corn and soybean farmer from Jackson County.   Read more

Jason Webster, lead commercial agronomist at Precision Planting and the Precision Technology Institute (PTI) Farm, discusses the current conditions of the 160 trials on the 400-acre farm. In this interview with RFD’s Rita Frazer, he also talks about recycling rainwater, cover crops, fungicide, nitrogen, input costs and international visitors on the PTI farm.   Listen