WEATHER, TRADE WAR CREATE CHALLENGING TIMES 'Frustrating, challenging': Illinois, Iowa farmers say 2019 is a difficult year

https://qconline.com/news/local/frustrating-challenging-illinois-iowa-farmers-say-is-a-difficult-year/article_c5541558-8f82-56be-a459-b73d341d644e.html

In a recent article published in the Dispatch - Rock Island Argus, Robert Connelly, writes about his interview with several West-Central IL county farm bureau Presidents.  Mercer County Farm Bureau President, Michael Zecher, is one of the featured farmers giving their account of this challenging 2019 year.  Click on the link above to read the article.