BREAKING NEWS…..Illinois Farm Bureau and Dodge are partnering for a SPECIAL 3 ½ week promotion for our members.  Beginning Monday, March 8, 2010, Illinois Farm Bureau members will be able to show their membership card at Dodge Dealerships and receive a $500 discount on their purchase from the following list of eligible vehicles.  They

Please take the time and submit comments through our Action Alert program located on the website - www.ilfb.org

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Rancher Troy Hadrick found out about Yellow Tail wine's $ 100,000 donation to Humane Society of United States and decided to to this. Click here to view his video from the feedlot

The Farm Progress Show companies have set the 2010 dates. Click here

The Rock Island County Farm Bureau is once again your last stop for great last minute Christmas gifts and stocking stuffers. Up until Wednesday December 23rd at 4:30 you can purchase Great Escape and Cinema 53 movie tickets at the Farm Bureau office. The cost for Great Escape is $ 7.00 and Cinema 53 is $ 7.75 and they do not expire. The Farm Bureau will not be open on Thursday December 24 and December 25th so - shop early!

 

 

We just received word that GM will NOT offer a 2010 private offer to our Farm Bureau members. Our current program will end with GM on January 4, 2010. Please discontinue, as soon as possible, all promotions of our GM partnership. Please inform all of your office staff and affiliate company employees of this member discount change. As a reminder, below is how to assist a member in obtaining an authorization number over the next 21 days.

 

How to help a member obtain an authorization number:

Two websites offer more information to consumers on questions they have about livestock production as well as farming in the United States. Click here to learn more about livestock production. For more food facts and experts who can address your questions - click here

Congress will soon debate whether to keep the estate tax exemption at $3.5 million a person and the top rate at 45 percent. Farm Bureau needs your signature to demonstrate to Congress that estate taxes need to be eliminated.Click here to learn more and sign the petition

Click on this link to be directed to the National Weather Service's North Central River Forecast in the midwest. For Illinois Iowa precipitation totals - click on this link.