Welcome to the Fulton County Farm Bureau website.  Here we will deliver important information to our members about the agriculture issues that face Fulton farmers and their families.  Please let us know what you think of it.  We also would be interested in obtaining e-mail addresses from our members, so that in the future we can deliver news in that way!

On the right side of the page should be news items from the Illinois Farm Bureau updated daily. And I KNOW we need a new Board Picture!  As soon as I can get the entire group in the Board Room at the same time, that will be taken care of.  :)

Fulton County Farm Bureau News

Representative Unes to Visit today

March 4, 2011
Representative Mike Unes will be holding office hours at the Fulton County Farm Bureau from 3pm to 4:30pm today (March 5rh). This would be a good opportunity for members to discuss a very importatn piece of legislation. House Amendment #1 to SB 4 which is in the House Revenue Committee. The amendment also proposes to sunset all sales tax exemptions, not just agricultural production exemptions, and most state income tax exemptions, credits, and deductions.

Website address has changed!

January 19, 2011
Please make a note that our new website is fultoncfb.org!

Quote of the Week

January 3, 2011
"There will always be those who feel more comfortable not venturing from the warmth of the hearth, but there are those who prefer to look out the window and wonder what is beyond the horizon."
— Jimmy Buffett (A Salty Piece of Land)

Leader Page

January 3, 2011
LEADER PAGE                      12/9/2010 1:34 PM
ETHANOL CREDIT - Final language for an extension of the U.S. ethanol tax credit "could emerge today," a trade group said on Thursday, with the 45-cent credit now set to expire on Dec. 31. Senator Saxby Chambliss, the senior Republican on the Senate Agriculture Committee, told Reuters that a 45-cent credit was the most likely outcome at the moment.

RESISTANCE IS FUTILE - House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Thursday

Talk to A Neighbor About Joining

January 3, 2011

2009 Accomplishments

 

Stopped Anti-Farm-Animal Legislation – Kept bills banning tail docking and gestation pens from ever reaching the debate floor of the Illinois General Assembly.

 

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