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Recent News

• 2025 Event Partnership Guide - Join in the fun! Become a 2025 Event Sponsor!   Showcase your company’s support for the CCFB Foundation and our programs! View all available opportunities for the 2025 event season here, or contact Shanna Hortin or Kirk Builta today! 2025 Events & Opps Booklet
• 2025 Golf Cart Raffle - Grand Prize 2025 Evolution D5 Maverick Golf Cart   Sponsored by Illini FS Street Legal with premium front seats, Bluetooth speaker and LED ground lights! Additional Prizes Include: THE ULTIMATE BLACKSTONE GRIDDLE PACKAGE Sponsored by the Champaign County Farm Bureau’s Board of Directors OONI PIZZA OVEN PACKAGE Sponsored by Hastings CCI Equipment   $250 CASH […]
• 40 Years of Planting a Legacy -   Farm Bureau Foundation Celebrates 40 Years   Incorporated February 22nd, 1985, the Champaign County Farm Bureau Foundation celebrates opportunity in agriculture. Our founding fathers, a group of forward-thinking Farm Bureau members, envisioned a community of support for the future of the agricultural industry. From that vision, the Foundation’s Scholarship program was born with the […]
• Golf FORE Agriculture in 2025! - Golf FORE Agriculture! Thursday, August 7, 2025 The University of Illinois Orange & Blue   Our Golf Outing is back in 2025 and EARLY BIRD registration is OPEN NOW!! It’s Champaign County’s biggest party on the fairway and its BIGGER than ever. ATTENTION LADIES!!! This year’s event includes a first ever LADIES COURSE! That’s right, we’re calling […]
• Creating Impact: One Seed at a Time - Beverly Herman smiled as she looked at photos of the Champaign County Farm Bureau Foundation’s 41 scholarship recipients. The headline: Planting A Legacy. “That’s what Ray did every day,” she thought. Ray Herman, who passed away in June, spent his life thinking about the future. A lifelong conservationist, Ray spent his career as a soil […]
• 2023-2024 CCFB Foundation Scholarship Recipients
• Soil Your Undies for Ag in the Classroom - We are excited to invite you to participate in a unique and educational soil health experiment called “Soil Your Undies”! This activity is designed to help us better understand the health of Illinois soil, and we need your enthusiasm and participation to make it a success.
• Grounded In Agriculture - A campaign to Support Ag in the Classroom Imagine a world where every elementary school classroom in Champaign County comes alive with the vibrant spirit of agriculture. That’s our vision, and it’s not just a dream—with your help it can be our reality. Through our Ag in the Classroom program, the Champaign County Farm Bureau […]
• 27th Annual The Andersons Golf Benefit For Kids -   Please Join Us: Lincolnshire Fields Country Club Monday, July 15th, 2024 Range Balls @ 7:30 AM; Tee Time @ 8:30 AM   We greatly appreciate your continued support of this event! Last year, we raised over $30,000 to benefit Crisis Nursery & the CCFB Foundation. *Special Note: Given the tremendous growth of this event […]
• FUELing Impact – Remembering Ross Booker -   A new program offered by the Champaign County Farm Bureau Foundation has gained support in a very special way. The Farm Bureau Foundation’s FUEL Grant program encourages the expansion of essential agricultural career pathways. Career-driven students pursing associates degrees, certificates, or accreditations in various technical or “agricultural trade” programs are eligible for FUEL Grants. […]