Illinois Farm Groups Request Funding to Safeguard Illinois’ Livestock

Last week, leadership from four Illinois commodity groups and Illinois Farm Bureau worked to increase the Illinois State budget request by $750,000 from the General Assembly’s FY23 budget toward the IL Dept of Agriculture (IDOA). These funds would be used to provide additional field veterinarians and proactive foreign animal disease prevention measures necessary to protect Illinois agriculture in the event of looming foreign animal disease outbreaks.

For most in the agriculture industry, you know that what you’re doing is providing food and items that consumers use daily and could not live without. For the average non-farmer who is disconnected from America’s farmers and ranchers, they may take everything in their lives for granted. How do you get to work? Corn. What’s in that makeup you’re using? Corn. The point is, agriculture deserves recognition more than for just a week but every year in March there is a dedicated week. 

IL Corn took this week as an opportunity to remind people of the key role agriculture plays in maintaining our world by offering a contest to nominate individuals who deserve recognition. Here are the winners in no order: