All members, you should have received in the past week, your invitation to the Membership Appreciation Breakfast. The breakfast is set for Friday, July 15th. We will be serving from 6:30 a.m. until 10: 30 a.m. There will be pancakes, eggs, whole hog sausage, and hashbrowns. There will be a number of door prizes along with packs for the kids. So mark your calendar and come join us! Also remember to bring your postcard to register for the many door prizes.
This Saturday, the Young Leaders are hosting their Annual Harvest for All. This will be the seventh year for the Harvest for All. In the past six years, the Young Leaders have donated over $75,430 to the four food pantries that serve Carroll County. The only reason they were able to do this was the generosity of the farmers in Carroll County. If you would like to donate to the Harvest for All, you may give our office a call at 244-3001.
It turns out there is such thing as a free lunch after all, thanks to Illinois Farm Families. In fact, they are offering Illinois residents the chance to win a free breakfast, lunch and dinner – by way of free groceries for an entire year.
From July 5 through Oct. 2, 2011, Illinois residents can register for two grand prizes of “Free Groceries for a Year!”* at www.FarmersFeedUS.org. Two additional sweepstakes prizes also are being offered, including an Illinois Fall Get-Away package to a bed and breakfast and a Family Harvest Day package out on an Illinois farm.
Upon visiting www.FarmersFeedUs.org, consumers can register to win by “meeting one of five Illinois family farmers” through a short video showing how each produces safe, healthy food. Visitors can register up to five times every day by watching all five featured farmer videos.
The Farmers Feed US website features beef, corn, dairy, hog, and soybean farmers from across the state, sharing information about their farms and their families. In addition to guiding visitors through the sweepstakes registration, each farmer also offers a brief online farm tour.
Featured Illinois Farm Families include:
Deb and Ron Moore, soybean farmers from Roseville
Brent and Kathy Scholl, pork farmers from Polo
Dale and Linda Drendel, dairy farmers from Hampshire
Mike and Lynn Martz, beef farmers from Maple Park
Steve and Elizabeth Ruh, corn farmers from Sugar Grove
“As Illinois farmers, we’re thrilled to offer free groceries for a year to the consumers of our great state,” says Deb Moore, one of the featured farmers on FarmersFeedUS.org. “This is an opportunity for Illinois Farm Families to show Illinois consumers how we grow their food, and to let them know we share their values - taking care of our families, taking care of our animals and land and giving back to our communities.”
Over the course of the 90-day sweepstakes, consumers throughout the state will also see and hear from these Illinois Farm Families as they are featured in television and radio advertising, and on Facebook () and Twitter ().
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.
MISSING: Missing in Shannon area since Monday, June 27. Female black lab mix w/gray & white face. 15-1/2 years old, has Ogle County tags. or take to Eastland Feed & Grain.
FS: Solid oak dining room table, with 6 captain chairs. Table extends 91in long, 41in wide- 4 table leafs that store in table. In good condition $350 OBO or
FS: 2004 Ford Explorer 135K miles, $6,995.
FS: Pool table with all the accessories, 72in long- 40in wide-31in high $125 OBO 14in wire wheel covers $100
FS: 2003 100th Anniversary 883 Sportster. Gun metal blue. Lowered Screaming Eagle. Many extras. Only 500 actual miles. Also for sale heavy duty 5 ft x 10 ft tube rail Doolittle trailer. Please call .
FS: Registered Holstein Bulls. Dams records over 30,000 pounds of milk. or
FS: Happy Hens Healthy Eggs- Multi Colored will deliver
FS: Echo extra long reach power pruner $150
FS: Exercising bike $10
FS: Kenmore Window AC unit 12,000 BCU $75
FS: 3 sleeping bags, hardly used
FS: Large lawn roller $25
FS: New small microwave $25
FS: 5ft front dozer blade off of Allis Chalmers 720 Tractor $325
FS: 6in x 16ft arguer on transport w/motor $325 FS: Antique oak sewing rocker $40
FS: Craftsman industrial 5HP chipper/shredder with bagger. $135
FS: New Holland 273 twine baler. Field ready $2,200
FS: Hampton 16ft hydraulic hog cart. In Excellent condition
FS: New Holland 268 baler, make offer. IH 490 Disk in excellent condition.
FS: Country blue couch & matching chair $150-Red prom dress with lace up back, very pretty $175- Smokercraft boat, 16ft deep haul $800-4ft across computer desk w/matching 3 shelf storage unit, black & sliver in color $75- 24in Huffy purple bike & 20 in Mongoose bike $40/each-Big trampoline- 2 Pioneer speakers 2ft high CS-A31 never been used $75/each or $150 for set- Black entertainment center 4ft across 3 1/2ft tall $60 in good condition
FS: 1996 DR 200 Suzuki enduro motorcycle. 976 org. miles in good condition.