Carroll County Farm Bureau

By Chastity Welch, Farm Bureau Manager

As Spring planting kicks off, focus is once again on roadway safety and slow moving vehicles, as farm equipment travels rural roads throughout the state. Most of this equipment is properly marked with slow moving vehicle identifiers and therefore legal, and not subject to fines. However, every now and then a SMV emblem crops up on a fencepost or driveway. This is considered illegal us-age in Illinois, subject to fines. Current legislation is pending to significantly raise fines (from $25 to $75) for improper use of SMV emblems. The Senate legislation has until the 15th to get out of the Senate. So if you or someone you know has improperly displayed a SMV, please be sure to remove it from its current location and display it properly!

Life here at the office certainly follows a cycle and lately the cycle has been the question if we do FOID card pictures. Yes, we certainly do and there is no charge for them. So if you are in that “cycle” that needs to renew yours, you can stop out at our office during normal business hours of Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. to get your picture taken.

The 2011 Antique Tractor Drive will be taking place on Friday, June 10. I am trying to avoid the mid-summer storms. Now if we get a ton of rain this year, I think I am done trying to plan a tractor drive! Okay, not really but it does go to show my luck. Registration forms are out on our website at www.carrollcfb.org or you can call our office and we will send you one. We are going back in time to the route we first took which has us leaving Milledgeville, heading to Lanark, here at the office for lunch, back to Milledgeville through Chadwick. I have also decided this year I am not posting directional signage but instead will spray paint arrows on the road. There is no sense in wasting time trying to track down the wet, blown away signs!

If you have not signed up for our Progressive Ag Safety Day and Farm Family Safety Day, you still have time! We will take reservations up until April 25.

We will be holding the Progressive Ag Safety Day for children ages 6-13. We will focus on the following topics for them: ATV Safety, Animal Safety, Equipment Safety, Grain Safety, First Aid, and Chemical Safety. For the adults (anyone over 14), we will have Grain Safety, Tractor/PTO Safety, First Responder Techniques, Chemical Safety, and Law/ Requirements for Operators. Adult sessions will be presented by Stateline Farm Rescue, Carroll Service Company, and Kevin Rund with the Illinois Farm Bureau.

Cost is $5 per person or $20 a family. Parents, you do not have to stay if you don’t want too. We are strongly encouraging it, but it is not a requirement. If the day goes as planned, we hope to have Lifeline coming around noon. You may print off a registration form off our website or contact our office for us to mail you one. So send in your form by April 25.

This Friday we will be closing the office at 11:30 in observance of Good Friday. We hope everyone has a Happy Easter!

Farm Bureau Classifieds

Carroll County Farm Bureau members can place up to two (2) free classified ads per week, with a limit of 250 characters per ad (not including spaces). Ads are limited to personal or farm items for sale/wanted to buy, or farm labor or services available or wanted. No ads for the sale or rental of real estate, garage sales, or commercial businesses will be accepted. To place an ad, call the Farm Bureau office at (815) 244-3001 by noon Friday to get your ad in the following week's paper.

FS: 2008 Chevy Silverado LT 2500 HD 6.6 Duramax 6sp Allison. Extended Cab and 53,000 miles. In excellent condition

FS: Large Metal File Cabinet with 4 drawers, 52” high, 18 ½ wide, and 25 long $30

FS: Metal fence posts 4,5,6,8ft $3 a piece

FS: Woods Cadet 84-2 rotary mower

FOR RENT: 3 Acre pasture with livestock water and corn crib by Lanark

FS: Eden Pure Gen3 heater used 2 winters $150 OBO

FS: 2 Haier Window AC with remotes and timers. Only used 1 summer. 1- Bedroom unit $75 OBO. 1- 3 room unit$125 OBO

FS: Yard Machine Riding Lawn Mower 38” cut 13HP $500

FS: Yard Machine Push Mower 22 inch cut 5hp $95

FS: Craftsman Push Mower 22 inch cut 4.75 HP $100

FS: ProForm Elliptical, has speed, distance & pulse monitor $100 OBO

FS: Nearly New Small Microwave

WANTED: Outdoor bench and outdoor wicker furniture

FS: Whizzer Motorized Bicycle. Like new, only 51 miles, great MPG, saddlebags and many other extras. $1500 OBO.

FS: Full set of adult golf clubs with pitching wedge and Taylor Made Firesole driver and bag.  Used but not abused $125 OBO.  Nolan N37 full faced motorcycle/snowmobile helmet with vents.  Like new.  $35 OBO Lanark at .

FS: Small portable TV and VHS combo $5

FS: Gas stove $40 and refrigerator $70

WANTED: Woven wire, steal fence post and calf huts.

WANTED: Orphaned calves, can be any breed

FS: Pearl Guineas $10 each. Gas or electric refrigerator $50. Port a pot $150.

FS: Small square bales of hay

FS: Beautiful Magnavox radio/record player cabinet available for the hauling away. Electronics are shot, but a handy man could covert the cabinet into a nice piece of furniture.

FS: 6 cemetery lots, Chapel Hill in Freeport, willing to split into smaller units. Priced to sell

FS: 1st & 2nd cutting alf/grass round bales-some net wrapped. Local delivery available. 2002 Buick Century Ltd. 104K $4,500. Dbl barrel wood burner. 815- 858-4547

FS: Red prom dress with lace up back, very pretty $175. Big trampoline $110. Smokercraft boat, 16ft deep haul $800. 4ft across computer desk w/matching 3 shelf storage unit, black and silver in color $75. 24in huffy purple bike and 20in mongoose bike $40 each.

FS: Happy Hens Healthy Eggs- Multi Colored, will deliver

FS: 27in Color TV with stand

FS: 1953 Evinrude outboard motor with tank and stand $125

Will remove rocks from your yard with lawn mower broom,