Your 2012IFB Policies may be found on the Illinois Farm Bureau® website at ilfb.org. Place your cursor on “Policy and Issues” at the top of the page. A drop down box will appear with “Policy for IFB and AFBF” as one of your choices. Click on “Policy for IFB and AFBF” and it will take you to the 2012 IFB Policies. You may then go and click on each individual policy that you would like to look at.

Hi Lord, its me. We are getting older and things are getting bad here. Gas prices are too high, no jobs, food and heating costs too high. I know some have taken you out of our schools, government and even Christmas, but Lord I'm asking you to come back and re-bless America . We really need you! There are more of us who want you than those who don't! Thank You Lord, I Love you.

"Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil - it has no point."

The Directors and Staff of Montgomery County Farm Bureau wishes everyone a Very Merry Christmas!


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Friday Dec. 23: 8 A.M. to Noon
Dec. 24-25-26 Office Closed
December 27-29: 8-4:30

Young Leaders Collect $6,320.02 for Their “Grain for Groceries” Program
The Montgomery County Farm Bureau Young Leaders distributed $6,320.02 from their “Grain For Groceries” program to nine different food Pantries around the county. The Grain for Groceries program was intended to allow local farmers to give to their communities in a simple way. This past harvest farmers in Montgomery County donated corn and soybeans to the program that was then sold on behalf of the Young Leaders “Grain For Groceries” program. At the end of the harvest season the donations were collected from the elevators and were distributed to the local food pantries in the form of cash donations.
Donations were distributed based upon several factors, one which included community support.
This was the first year for this exciting new program and we appreciated the support of our local farmers.

The 2012-2013 Montgomery County Farm Bureau Foundation Scholarship Application is now available.

The MCFB Young Leaders harvested their soybean plot on Friday October 7th. Be sure and check out the results below in the Plot Infomation Section.

Pictures can be seen in the Photo Gallery.

Check out the result of the Young Yeaders' Corn plot by clicking on the "Plot Information" box below and to the right side of our home page.

Pictures of the harvest can be seen in the Photo Gallery.

Friday Morning August 26th, 2011 several volunteers went out across Montgomery County to do the annual Corn Yield Check. Click on the link to find the results for 2011.

Crop-share tenant farmers will no longer be considered “for-hire” and implements of husbandry will not be regulated as trucks under the terms of the announcement issued this morning by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA.)



That decision wipes away mountains of uncertainty for farmers faced with serious decisions about motor carrier safety regulations (MCSR) and how their operations could function legally.



Illinois Farm Bureau will be hosting FMCSA administrator Anne Ferro and her staff over the next two days visiting farms and agribusinesses. We will use our time with the group to demonstrate and reinforce that they have made the correct decision. We will also turn our attention to working with the agency to address the non-compliance issues faced by 81 Illinois farmers who “failed” safety audits in February and early March before members called the problem to our attention and a moratorium was imposed on asking the crop-share question.



We consider the decisions on crop-share an implements of husbandry to in-line with what we had requested.



Thanks to county Farm Bureaus and individual farmers for submitting many of the more than 1700 comments on this issue. Watch FarmWeek for additional information.







Kevin Rund & Adam Nielsen