June is National Safety Month
National Safety Month is celebrated in June when people focus on how they can keep their environment safe and free from any danger. Be sure and take extra safety precautions and take your time to help keep everyone safe!
Macon County Farm Bureau Young Leaders Chair Lance Muirheid presents Northeast Community Fund Executive Director Angel Lawrence with a donation over $550. The Young Leaders earned this donation through the District Hunger Challenge at the 2022 Illinois Farm Bureau Annual Meeting. Way to go, Young Leaders!!!
Thank you to IBEW 146 and WAND News for selecting the Macon County Farm Bureau Foundation as the 3 Degree Guarantee April recipient! The $950 will help support the Foundation's scholarship and Ag in the Classroom programs. Many thanks!!!
Safety First
The MCFB received a safety grant for the purchase of silicon wedding bands for its Board of Directors to help prevent finger injuries on the farm. The grant was presented by the Illinois Farm Bureau and Country Financial. Thank you for your continued support of farm safety!
Photo: MCFB Board of Directors Vice President Toby Pleasant shows off his new band.
Concert Announcement!!!!!!
The Macon County Farm Bureau welcomes Josh Turner on Friday, September 8 at The Devon Lakeshore Amphitheater for a night of country hits. Tickets will range from $29-54 and will be on sale Thursday, May 4 at 10 a.m. at www.etix.com.
Featured Benefit of the Month for May -
Connie’s Country Greenhouse
Members receive 10% off!
325 2400th Avenue in Latham
Web: www.conniescountrygreenhouse.com
Phone: 217.412.8732
Funding provided through a grant from Memorial Medical Center Foundation awarded $10,000 to the Macon County Farm Bureau Foundation to help support both the Ag in the Classroom and scholarship programs. The funds received helped to support the two programs during the 2022-23 school year. Many thanks to the support of the Decatur Memorial Foundation for this opportunity to continue to bring the importance of agriculture to life to the students of Macon County.
Weather forecast from yr.no, delivered by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute and the NRK
We are close to being ready for harvest but the closer you get it seems like the more surprises pop up. The latest was a revamping of the corn head trailer to accommodate the Devastators we installed on our corn…
The cool weather continued into midweek last week but started warming into the 80s by Tuesday. Several guys were picking corn in Stark County with moisture from 20% up to 30%. No one is bragging about their yields, so that…
Another dry week. Corn harvest is ramping up with drier moisture and lower yields than expected. I haven’t got going yet, so l don’t have first-hand knowledge, but the dry finish and the highest disease pressure in years has taken…
We did not receive any rain last week. It has turned very dry and more warm weather is predicted for this week. We started harvesting corn last Thursday. The moisture was from 18% to 23%. Yields are good. Not sure…
Harvest is around the corner. We are working on our last cutting of hay for the season. Hay production has been very good this year. The weather has been dry for the past week and looks to remain dry for…
Warm and dry weather has crops maturing and moving harvest time closer. Choppers are finding corn drying fast. Final cuttings of hay are being completed. Pastures are not growing much. Looking back at my first harvest (1956) I used a…
