Christian County

I will get some help from my ag broadcasting buddy, Rita Frazer, today.

She will be visiting with a couple of folks from Christian County, talking about something called Grain for the Cure.

That's first up on the program, uh, today.

Then some bonus content from the Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa.

So people were donating, you know, wagon loads of corn, splashes of corn.

Since then we've made it much easier.

We have accounts set up at all the local elevators around Christian County, so people can go to the elevator, they'll see our banners, they'll see our flyers, and they can say, "Hey, let's donate this amount of bushels for Grain for the Cure." So we've had a lot of great support from some local elevators, Sorrells, Assumption Co-op, Gateway FS, ADM, M&M Service, and then also Jenner Ag has been a really cool supporter of this program that we're doing.

So it does, it's made it very, very easy for people to donate.

And, and a lot of them were, uh, you know, the mine worker jobs and, and, uh, all kinds of other jobs.

It was called Christian, Christian County Mining, Christian Mining Company in Christian County, Taylorville.

And we didn't get to do it because, uh, we couldn't get the s- the State of Illinois to get off their butt to, to help us with it.

And so that, all that went away.

Harvest rolling on in the state.

In Christian County, I talked this week with Jamie Sample and her dad, Dale Himstead, working for Grain for the Cure, a program they started a few years ago to help with cancer research.

So my dad gets some supplies from Springfield Plastic, and they have always ran, for quite a while, Drain for the Cure.

Well, my dad's client base is farmers, and he's a farmer, so we decided to put a little spin on it, which they thought was fun, and they kinda helped us, and we decided to call it Grain for the Cure.

So people were donating, you know, wagon loads of corn, splashes of corn.

Since then, we've made it much easier.

We have accounts set up at all the local elevators around Christian County, so people can go to the elevator.

They'll see our banners, they'll see our flyers, and they can say, "Hey, let's donate this amount of bushels for Grain for the Cure." So we've had a lot of great support from some local elevators, Sorrells, Assumption Co-op, Gateway FS, ADM, M&M Service, and then also Jenner Ag has been a really cool supporter of this program that we're doing.

That's all the time we have for RFD Illinois.

Logan Sarginson, Christian County farmer.

Christian County.

How much hay you got down? If there's ever a week to put hay down, this is a week to put it down, right?

I, this is my first time mowing hay in October, and I have on the ground 23 and a half acres as we speak.

Well, I'm doing wonderful, Sam, and you're right.

The sun is shining, and it's a great day down in Christian County, and there's plenty of vehicles to choose from.

If you haven't been out on our website lately, I encourage you to do so, Sam.

Tell me about what's new, what is hot, F-150.