Mark Gebhards and Richard Guebert address media during the 2020 virtual IFB Annual Meeting.
Members voted on policy focused on livestock pricing, renewable fuels, essential business protection and more during the virtual Illinois Farm Bureau Annual Meeting.
During Saturday’s business session members passed a recommendation to the IAA Board of directors to create a livestock working group. Mark Gebhards tells ag media this committee would…
“Look at pricing issues within the livestock industry, transparency of those issues and making sure ultimately, at the end of the day, that there is profitability in the livestock industry for our members.”
He says policy was also passed creating support of statewide biodiesel blending standards for B20 and higher.
