R.F.D. NEWS & VIEWS
— August 2, 2017This week: renewable fuel proponents just won a court victory, of sorts, and we have perspective on the decision from Illinois Corn leadership to pass along. Also, farmer-members have…
Tag: Agriculture
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R.F.D. NEWS & VIEWS
— July 19, 2017In this week’s farm news roundup, we highlight recent crop condition reports and examine how the latest WASDE report could affect the value of soybeans. Also: Illinois farmers’…
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R.F.D. NEWS & VIEWS
— July 5, 2017While Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue celebrated the arrival of U.S. beef in China after a 14-year embargo, the building of new livestock barns in Illinois continued at a fevered pace. Other…
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R.F.D. NEWS & VIEWS
— June 21, 2017In this week’s rural and farm news roundup, we have details of the biggest purchase in John Deere and Company’s 180-year history, and how that deal puts them in position to take…
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Trump budget cuts would shut down Peoria ag lab
— June 12, 2017Seventy-five years ago, chemists and engineers at the Northern Regional Research Lab in Peoria discovered a means to mass produce penicillin and, by June 1944, just in time for the…
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R.F.D. NEWS & VIEWS
— July 12, 2017A busy week for farm and rural news is topped by the Illinois legislature’s passing of the state’s first full budget in over two years. How does it affect ag programs? Also, there…
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R.F.D. NEWS & VIEWS
— June 28, 2017It was a particularly “beefy” news week for farmers and rural dwellers, with trade deals announced with China and suspended with Brazil, beef was prominent on ag talk shows and…
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R.F.D. NEWS & VIEWS
— June 14, 2017The nation’s eyes turned briefly on the needs of agriculture — as it relates to trade — when the president stumped for inland waterways infrastructure repairs funding as part…
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