- Wheat Growers announced the 2013 Board of Directors and Delegate election results at their annual meeting.
- Illinois Farm Bureau President Philip Nelson was presented the Outstanding Service to Agriculture Award by the Illinois Society of Professional Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers.
- In March the Unity College campus will begin an initiative to raise free range chickens as part of an ongoing hunger relief effort.
- The American Soybean Association expressed its strong opposition to a plan it understands will be proposed as part of the White House’s 2014 budget that will eliminate the Food for Peace and Food for Progress programs.
