"I think the thing we talk about that kind of overarches everything right now is farm income. We’re very concerned as we continue to read the economic reports coming out of the University of Illinois." Brian Duncan, Illinois Farm Bureau president, said

Agricultural students at Belvidere North High School learn a variety of skills, including how to raise and care for quail and chickens.

The Illinois Department of Agriculture issued a 30-day suspension, effective immediately, on the exhibition or sale of poultry at swap meets, exhibitions, flea markets and auction markets in response to the ongoing threat of H5N1 avian flu