Of these 24,000 farms, 95.6% of farms are owned by families and 4.4% of the farms are non-family or corporate-owned farms according to the USDA Census of Agriculture Typology Report 2024. Despite its ...
Last year, 96% of all farms across the U.S. were family-owned. Those businesses produced 83% of our country’s agricultural output. These numbers are according to a recent report by USDA’s Economic ...
Brian Duncan, President of Illinois Farm Bureau. Photo courtesy of Brian Duncan’s X account: @ILFBPres. Overall, Duvall still refers to Illinois Farm Bureau members as “family” and is optimistic that ...
The Illinois Farm Bureau and Country Financial headquarters in Bloomington. The American Farm Bureau Federation [AFBF] has backed off a deadline to eject the Illinois Farm Bureau [IFB] from the ...
Take A Sleigh Ride Through An Idyllic Christmas Tree Farm At Oney’s Tree Farm In Illinois Oney's Tree Farm in Woodstock, Illinois offers a magical holiday experience with U-cut Christmas trees, wagon ...
1. The law gives Illinois the country’s strongest protections for people caring for children, aging parents and other family members, including those with disabilities, according to advocates.
Because farming is so central to our nation’s identity—and its idea of itself—this future can feel fraught. In 2012, the USDA forecast that most (70 percent) family farms would transfer hands over the ...