On April 3rd, four (4) Clinton County FFA chapters participated in a “FFA Quiz Bowl” sponsored by the Clinton County Farm Bureau’s Young Leader Committee. helkldfjklalkjdfCentral High School in Breese hosted the event, which also included teams from Carlyle, Mater Dei, and Wesclin High School. Students...
St. Louis District Dairy Council, in partnership with Southwest Dairy Museum, Inc., is again using their traveling milking parlor to give students and consumers a unique dairy farm experience, right in the parking lot. The Clinton CFB donated another $5,000 through the St. Louis District...
Tori Richter and Quinton Huelsmann graduated from Illinois Farm Bureau’s Agricultural Leaders of Tomorrow (ALOT) program, a comprehensive leadership development course, on March 20. Richter and Huelsmann, members of Clinton County Farm Bureau, joined 17 other graduates in 2024. Now in its 45th year, ALOT has...
What started as an idea from State Representative Charlie Meier last December, recently came to fruition on February 23rd with Farm Bureau members from across his district touring ADM’s Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) facility in Decatur.Representative Meier attended the IFB’s Annual Meeting in Chicago...
The Clinton County Farm Bureau (CFB) has again committed up to $5,000 to fund community improvement projects for 2024 through an online application process with an April 30th deadline. Our Community Impact Grant program seeks to identify various projects that will improve our communities and...
September Ag in the Classroom for fourth grade was all about the grains we grow and how they are used to make the things we use in our daily lives. This is always our first lesson of the year because it sets the tone for...
Six (6) Young Leader Committee members from Clinton County recently attended the Illinois Farm Bureau’s (IFB) Young Leader Conference. Nearly 500 Young Leaders in agriculture from across the state met in Springfield for the annual conference on February 2nd-3rd.During the conference, attendees could choose from...
Members of the Clinton County Farm Bureau (CFB) Young Leader Committee recently delivered the final donation from their 2023 Farm Safety Grant program with a $1,500 donation to Breese EMS. A total of $2,700 was awarded to 2 county EMS providers, in cooperation with a...
The Clinton County Farm Bureau held its 106th Annual Meeting on January 30th at Bretz Wildlife Lodge and Winery in Carlyle with approximately 350 members and guests in attendance. Highlights from the meeting included reports from the organization’s officers, staff, committees, and a couple special...
First-grade students across Clinton County are provided with one 30-minute lesson each month by the Farm Bureau’s Ag in the Classroom (AITC) program. First graders from Wesclin recently learned how to grow pumpkins for their AITC lesson. Students read a book called “Pumpkin Jack”. Afterward, students...