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- Shurley On Cotton: “A Chip Shot Away From 80 Cents”
- Farmers Make Their Voices Heard in Farm Bill Debate
- Fire Comes Sweeping Down the Plain Lives, Livestock, Homes Lost to Oklahoma Wildfires
- Farmers Brace for Whirlwind Planting Season as Trade Concerns Loom
- Traders Remain Nervous About U.S. Planting Activity
- Planting 2018 versus Planting 2017
- Wildfire Livestock Losses May Qualify for Financial Assistance Program
- Large Increase for Cattle on Feed, Highest April Report Since 2006
- U.S. Grain Ships Change Direction Mid-Voyage After China Tariffs
- Washington Week Ahead: Trade, RFS Get Focus as Perdue, Pruitt Testify
- Trump Still Not Ready to Join TPP
- List of Insprirational Women in Agriculture
- Perdue Announces New Senior Leaders at USDA
- U.S. Sorghum Growers Concerned With Tariffs
- Farmers Brace for Whirlwind Planting Season as Trade Concerns Loom
- Support to Curb Farm Suicides Proposed: Senators Introduce Bill to Provide States With More Resources to Help Farmers Cope With Stress
- Basis Outlook–Here’s Who’s Buying Your Crops Right Now
- Trump’s Looming Trade War Gives Democrats an Opening in Farm Country
- Trump Still Not Ready to Join TPP
- Federal Reserve: Observations on the Ag Economy- April ’18
- Wildfire Aid Amendment Added to Farm Bill Proposal
- Wheat Market: Competing for Acres – 2018/19 Global Production to Fall
- Suspicious Organic Grain Intercepted at U.S. Port
- How Many Days Does It Take to Plant the U.S. Corn Crop?
- Kim Anderson Say Upward Movement in the Basis Good News for the Wheat Markets and Farmers
Martin Barbre, RMA Administrator
Martin Barbre owns and operates Chestin Farms and grows 6,000 acres of corn, soybeans, wheat, grain sorghum, and alfalfa, as well as specialty crops. He is a past president of the National Corn Growers Association Corn Board and a member of the Illinois Corn Growers Association (ICGA), having served on the board of directors from 1995 to 2006. Barbre served as vice president of the ICGA in 2003 and president in 2004. He graduated from Southeastern Illinois College in 1974 with a degree in Ag Business.
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