The McLean County Farm Bureau Foundation is pleased to announce the 2025 scholarship recipients. A total of $13,500 has been awarded to eight outstanding students pursuing careers in agriculture-focused fields.
Four students were selected to [Read More...]
McLean County Farm Bureau awarded $7,950 in FFA Matching Grants for 2025 to 8 FFA Chapters. The FFA Matching Grant awards each chapter up to $1,000 for ag education purposes. Grants are matched with student volunteer hours at $10 per hour.
LeRoy [Read More...]
Lauren Mohr of Carlock and Autumn Schlipf of Gridley were each selected to receive scholarships from the IAA Foundation for the 2025-26 academic year.
Lauren Mohr will receive the $1,000 Vincent O. Greene Memorial Scholarship, awarded to a student [Read More...]
Illinois is in the top four states for highest reported confined ag space cases, according to a recent summary of last year’s frequency and causes [Read More...]
It's only September, but Tom Eickman of Eickman’s Meat Processing has had Christmas on his mind since April. As the third-generation operator of the [Read More...]
Dan Meinhart, a FarmWeek CropWatcher from Jasper County, began corn harvest last week. "The yield is good," he said. Bean harvest began over the [Read More...]
Illinois Farm Bureau's Adopt-A-Legislator program helps to educate urban legislators about agriculture and rural life. More than 20 adopted [Read More...]
Mathew Heberling might as well have been getting into a time machine when he stepped into the combine. He recently harvested corn trials at one of [Read More...]