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Livestock pricing, renewable fuels and pandemic top discussion at Illinois Farm Bureau Annual Meeting

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.

“The soybean association along with the corn growers have certainly put a huge priority, as they should, on this renewable fuels area and our voting delegates were able to emphasize the fact that we would be supportive of that as well.”

Illinois Farm Bureau also passed policy to protect essential small businesses in the ag industry from unwarranted liability claims due to the pandemic.  

“This is trying to make sure that if it is an essential business, those workers are there conducting whatever it is they are charged with doing in their business responsibilities, and that they are protected.”

Gebhards says IFB will be bringing up all three issues during the American Farm Bureau Annual Meeting in January. He says virtual policy discussions went smoothly with most submittals receiving nearly a 95% approval rate from the 336 voting delegates.   

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