Timothy Eggert

Jul 29, 2024 | farmweeknow.com | Timothy Eggert

I still remember my first lesson in conservation. It was shared one fall — I was around 5 years old — while I helped my grandpa pile rotten and worm-holed apples in a heap in the far corner of his vegetable garden. Mixed with other organic material like food scraps, grass clippings and tree leaves, the rotting apples would break down over the winter. In early spring, grandpa would spread the mix as compost to add nutrients back into the garden soil.

Jun 3, 2024 | farmweeknow.com | Timothy Eggert

Legislation establishing state regulations around carbon capture and sequestration projects, including a moratorium on pipeline construction, is set to become Illinois law. Senate Bill 1289, or the “Safety and Aid for the Environment in Carbon Capture and Sequestration Act,” (CCS) passed the Illinois House on a 78-29 vote and the Illinois Senate on a 43-12 vote during the final days of the Illinois General Assembly’s spring legislative session. Gov.

Feb 2, 2024 | farmweeknow.com | Timothy Eggert

Extended contraction in the U.S. cattle market is likely to result in record beef prices through this year and part of 2025, according to a top livestock economist. American Farm Bureau Federation Economist Bernt Nelson made his forecast during a workshop at the AFBF Convention in Salt Lake City, held before the Jan. 31 release of USDA’s cattle inventory report.

Dec 17, 2023 | farmweeknow.com | Timothy Eggert

The Biden administration Friday issued a long-awaited framework for awarding tax incentives around sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), one that will incorporate an emissions model backed by the agriculture, biofuels and aviation industries. But updates required for agricultural commodities to qualify as SAF feedstocks under that model, known as the Greenhouse Gasses, Regulated Emissions and Energy Use in Transportation (GREET) model, won’t be released until March 1, the administration said.

Dec 11, 2023 | ilfb.org | Timothy Eggert

BY TIMOTHY EGGERT Ogle County livestock and grain farmer Brian Duncan has been elected the 16th president of Illinois Farm Bureau. Duncan’s ascension to president came Dec. 4, after a majority of the 327 delegates gathered in Chicago for IFB’s 109th Annual Meeting selected him for the position. Delegates also elected Evan Hultine, a sixth-generation farmer from Bureau County, as vice president.