Saturday, May 27, 2023 Check inside to see all submitted photos!
Welcome to your Favorite Farm Photos!
Sauk Valley readers entered their favorite farm photos into our gallery. The readers voted and the photo that received the highest number of votes appears on our cover!
COVER PHOTO: SUBMITTED BY ANEDA EBERT IS THAT PIG SMILING?
Our Grandson, Marty, loves visiting the little pigs!
FAVORITE FARM
PHOTOS CONTEST
PHOTOS ARE IN! VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE FARM PHOTO!
All month Sauk Valley readers entered their favorite farm photos into our gallery. Now through May 5, voting will take place to determine the winning photo!
Sauk Valley Media will publish all the photos submitted in a pull-out section on May 26th & 27th. The photo that receives the highest number of votes will be featured on the cover of the section and will win a gift card. Don’t miss your chance to participate. Vote today!
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2 Sauk Valley Media/ shawlocal.com/sauk-valley • Saturday, May 27, 2023 FARM PHOTOS
SUBMITTED BY ALEESA JOHNS BRUNO AND MABEL - Our highland bull with one of his ladies.
SUBMITTED BY CHRISTINE DEWEY FOGGY FALL MORNING - Labor Day Morning 2018 we pulled over and snapped this photo along the road.
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3 FARM PHOTOS Sauk Valley Media/ shawlocal.com/sauk-valley • Saturday, May 27, 2023 We have protected area farm families for over 150 years and will continue to do so for many more. Find out how important local, hometown insurance can be. Call one of our friendly agents today! First Class Insurance Agency Milledgeville 815-225-7777 Dixon 815-284-7070 Hugh F. Miller Insurance Agency, Inc. Rock Falls 815-626-1300 Scholl Insurance Agency Polo 815-946-2324 Leffelman & Associates Inc. Amboy 815-857-2125 Sublette 815-849-5219 Sauk Valley Insurance Inc. Dixon IL 815-288-2541 SM-ST2077727
4 Sauk Valley Media/ shawlocal.com/sauk-valley • Saturday, May 27, 2023 FARM PHOTOS SM-ST2075344 Call our agents today at (815) 626-1300 801 1st Ave, Rock Falls, IL hughmillerinsurance.com TRUST US TO APPRECIATE YOUR DEDICATION Thanks to all the farmers out there. We’re proud to help protect your hard work. SUBMITTED BY JOYCE SCHAMBERGER GET’EN IT DONE! - Helping plant!
SUBMITTED BY NATHAN STEIN TRACTOR POWER
Our son looks out on his grandfather’s farm.
HUNTER ANDERSON
LEO’S MAY 2020 Leo may have been blind but at 5:30am on a May morning he sure gave me a picture to keep forever.
5 FARM PHOTOS Sauk Valley Media/ shawlocal.com/sauk-valley • Saturday, May 27, 2023 You help bring food to our tables, so let us help bring relief to your finances. Rooted in the Community 915 8th Ave. Erie, IL 61250 (309) 659-2245 FSBForrest.com SM-ST2078474
6 Sauk Valley Media/ shawlocal.com/sauk-valley • Saturday, May 27, 2023 FARM PHOTOS Local Agents Serving You for Generations & Will be for Generations to Come! • Auto • Home • Vacation Home • Farm • Crop • Business • Life • Health AMBOY 815-857-2125 SUBLETTE 815-849-5219 LAMOILLE 815-638-2171
Filling up the pickup bed for a freezer full of sweet corn all winter long!
Enjoying another amazing midwestern sunset after completing the second tillage pass on one of our smaller fields.
Day is done
SUBMITTED BY GUNNAR ORTGIESEN SWEEEET CORN
SUBMITTED BY MICHAEL HEALY GOD’S EVENING SKY
SUBMITTED BY CHERYL GALOR POLO FARM
Always love when the grandkids have Easter break. Weather has cooperated this year!
corn harvest.
7 FARM PHOTOS Sauk Valley Media/ shawlocal.com/sauk-valley • Saturday, May 27, 2023 Spring Cattle We are your Headquarters! Feed, supplements, fencing supplies, water tanks, feeders, panels, and more! SM-ST2077739 SUBMITTED BY JEN PHELPS JUST A GIRL WAITING ON HER GRANDPA Lunch packed. Patiently waiting for a ride in the tractor.
SUBMITTED BY THOMAS TURNER GRANDKIDS/ HOPEFULLY FUTURE LAND STEWARD’S
SUBMITTED BY NATALIE BLUM HARVEST Grain cart fills semi during
8 Sauk Valley Media/ shawlocal.com/sauk-valley • Saturday, May 27, 2023 FARM PHOTOS To Find an Agent NEAR YOU Log on to www.bradfordmutual.com or Call 815-456-2334 Member Owned and Operated Since 1869 “154 Years of Neighbors Helping Neighbors” SM-ST2075342 a truly local Hardware Store Owned & operated by your neighbors In Dixon. 900 N. Galena Ave., Dixon, IL 815-288-7841 www.acerentalplacedixon.com WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK ALL AREA FARMERS! SUBMITTED BY BRI FRIEDRICHS CAS + KAM - Snuggles SUBMITTED BY JARED FREY HI COWS!! My daughter Paisley loves to go to the farm and check on the cows with daddy. She always says hello and tells them they are cute! SUBMITTED BY TRACI SANDROCK DAUGHTER AND GRANDDAUGHTER AT OUR ANNUAL CATTLE SALE Granddaughters 1st Sandrock Cattle Sale!
9 FARM PHOTOS Sauk Valley Media/ shawlocal.com/sauk-valley • Saturday, May 27, 2023 PROUD TO LIVE IN AND SUPPORT DIXON Call for a bundle quote today! bmaltry@amfam.com (815) 288-4206 709 N Brinton Ave Dixon, IL 61021 Bob Maltry, Agent American Family Mutual Insurance Company S.I, & its Operating Companies, Life Insurance underwritten by American Family Life Insurance Company, 6000 American Parkway, Madison, WI 53783 ©2022 21178 – 8/22 – 18291464 HOME | AUTO | LIFE | BUSINESS | FARM & RANCH
SUBMITTED BY LORI MATHEWS SUNSET Sunset on the farm.
SUBMITTED BY MADISON DIXON SINK HOLLOW FARM Beautiful evening at Sink Hollow Farm.
SUBMITTED BY MICHELE GILLETTE SPRING BABY Mom welcoming her new baby. Morrison, IL
10 Sauk Valley Media/ shawlocal.com/sauk-valley • Saturday, May 27, 2023 FARM PHOTOS SM-ST2077708 Dixon 905 N. Galena Avenue 815-288-3257 THANK YOU FARMERS Since 1954 Whiteside County Airport 10924 Hoover Road, Rock Falls 815-622-9000 Make Your Farm, Home & Business Communication More Efficient, Profitable, and Enjoyable! Don’t Take A Chance, Call Radio Ranch! ~Business Telephone Systems~ Intercept those important phone calls ~Call Us Two Way Radio 451 N. Main Ave. Milledgeville, IL • 815-225-7171 www.milledgevillebank.com Agriculture Loans • Real Estate • Operating • Equipment • Lines of Credit Matt Scholl Agriculture Loan Officer SUBMITTED BY WALTER PARSONS CBD HEMP FLOWER Harmon Hemp Farm SUBMITTED BY CATHE HARVEY HAPPY GOATS These fainting goats are enjoying the moment together. SUBMITTED BY BRENDA HUMPHREY FALL SUNSET Sunset on the farm.
11 FARM PHOTOS Sauk Valley Media/ shawlocal.com/sauk-valley • Saturday, May 27, 2023 Spring Into Savings! Great Prices On Furniture and Mattresses! 1210 W Rock Falls Rd, Rock Falls, IL 61071 haroldsfurniture1.com • (815) 625-7177 SUBMITTED BY MOLLY BIGGS HEREFORDS IN THE DEEP GREEN GRASS A Polled Hereford cow, commonly known as Tilly, in a pasture in south Dixon. SUBMITTED BY NICOLE HABBEN HARVEST Habben Farm’s picking corn. SUBMITTED BY JOSIE HUSSEY JUNE WHEAT Sunset wheat crop close to harvest time!
Our old barn went down in one of the storms we had recently. Thankfully it was going to be tore down, so it was empty.
Maribel is our 2 year old Red
is a 1 year old yellow heifer.
12 Sauk Valley Media/ shawlocal.com/sauk-valley • Saturday, May 27, 2023 FARM PHOTOS
SUBMITTED BY BRENDA LINTON FAMILY FARM - Two generations of a five generation farm. Part of the 1%.
SUBMITTED BY ANDREA THIELEN BEAUTY AFTER A LOSS
SUBMITTED BY AMY ALLISON SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW - The beauty after the storm moves through.. stunning!
SUBMITTED BY CASSANDRA CHAPMAN FRESH CUT - “I see you”
SUBMITTED BY ALEESA JOHNS HIGHLANDS UNDER THE SUNSET
heifer and Journey
First day of the 2022 harvest season in Morrison IL! The sunset was beautiful and reflecting on the combine just right!
Beautiful blue polish rooster. He looks mad, but he really is a sweetheart!
2 OF 3 TRIPLETS - When you’re trying to save them you bring them in the house!
13 FARM PHOTOS Sauk Valley Media/ shawlocal.com/sauk-valley • Saturday, May 27, 2023
SUBMITTED BY PENNY ROOP
SUBMITTED BY KALLIE LAROCCO SUNSET ON THE FARM - Sunset state of mind.
SUBMITTED BY DALE BERTOLOZZI FALL - Fall colors on the farm.
SUBMITTED BY RANDY HARVEY ANGRY BIRD
SUBMITTED BY BREANNA WHITE SUNSET HARVEST
SUBMITTED BY RICHARD SWEENEY 4 KIDS IN A MANGER
I don’t know why the grown ups eat out of these, they are much better to sleep in.
SUBMITTED BY NANCY SEAVEY MULTI GENERATION FARMERS Is that Gold Grandpa?
Better Yours B
14 Sauk Valley Media/ shawlocal.com/sauk-valley • Saturday, May 27, 2023 FARM PHOTOS
SUBMITTED BY JENNIFER HEINTZELMAN TWINS! Twins born on the Humphrey Cattle farm in Dixon.
15 FARM PHOTOS Sauk Valley Media/ shawlocal.com/sauk-valley • Saturday, May 27, 2023 • Operating for Crops and Livestock • Equipment and Irrigation • Buildings, Livestock and Grain Facilities • Farm Land • Prompt and local decisions with access to as much as $10 million per farm customer Farmers National Bank Ag Lenders Serving Northwest Illinois Since 1902 www.FarmersNationalBank.bank EXPERIENCED • RESPONSIVE • TRUSTED For All Your Ag Banking Needs PROPHETSTOWN 114 West Third Street (815) 537-2348 GENESEO 700 US Highway 6 East (309) 944-0580 MORRISON 1100 East Lincolnway (815) 772-3700 TOP 100 Ag Bank in the U S SM-ST2078472 18390 Waller Road Fulton, IL 61252 (815) 589-4960 SM-ST2078473
SUBMITTED BY LAURIE BYVICK COWS - Animals
SUBMITTED BY LAFAUGHN ROSENOW SPRING PRAIRIE ON THE FARM Hedgepost fence facing our farm.
dry
SUBMITTED BY BILL ALBER THREE’S COMPANY... Curious, but staying
on a rainy day....
The irrigator was running as the sun was setting. The sun look strange that evening and the water from the irrigator made the picture even prettier.
16 Sauk Valley Media/ shawlocal.com/sauk-valley • Saturday, May 27, 2023 FARM PHOTOS SM-ST2075346 CELEBRATING OVER 26 YEARS OF SUCCESS 888-414-2220 815-948-2591 MAPLE PARK, IL HOOPPOLE, IL WWW.APGRAINSYSTEMS.COM THE DESIGN, THE BUILD, THE SERVICE... WE DO IT RIGHT! WWW.VERNSFARMSUPPLY.COM SYSTEM DESIGN & SERVICE • DRYERS • PNEUMATIC SYSTEMS DUMP PITS • BUCKET ELEVATORS • AUGERS • GRAIN BINS
SUBMITTED BY ABBY SWEENEY MINI LAMANCHA SUNSET Bella Bear, queen of all she surveys.
SUBMITTED BY JENNIFER HOWARD IRRIGATION
WIND ENERGY SUPPORTS OUR FARMERS
Wind farms and farming are compatible; generally, a wind turbine and its associated roads take up less than 1 acre of ground leaving the rest to crops and livestock.
From manufacturing to construction to long-term operations and management, Illinois is a growing hub for jobs in the clean power sector. Over 9,000 people in the state are employed by wind energy.
Wind energy produces about 11% of Illinois’ electricity. In 2021, the state ranked 5th in the nation for most installed wind energy capacity.
17 FARM PHOTOS Sauk Valley Media/ shawlocal.com/sauk-valley • Saturday, May 27, 2023
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LANDOWNERS
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During its lifetime, Gipper Wind Farm will provide millions
property taxes to
local community supporting schools, fire departments,
roads.
Keeping my combine in pristine condition, my faithful partner for 18 seasons. Thankful for the dedicated teams of people that have invested time & talent to keep it running smoothly year after year. What a blessing.
This old building still has purpose as a nesting site for
18 Sauk Valley Media/ shawlocal.com/sauk-valley • Saturday, May 27, 2023 FARM PHOTOS
SUBMITTED BY RACHAEL MILLER
BRUCE LEE - Glorious Bruce Lee standing proud and ready to karate kick anyone who passes!
COVER PHOTO: SUBMITTED BY ANEDA EBERT IS THAT PIG SMILING? Our Grandson, Marty, loves visiting the little pigs!
SUBMITTED BY JODI KELLY MILLIE - Smiley girl!
SUBMITTED BY RANDALL BOGOTT BEAN HARVEST COMPLETED
SUBMITTED BY TERESA CLARK THE GRANARY
Barn Swallows.
19 Sauk Valley Media/ shawlocal.com/sauk-valley • Saturday, May 27, 2023 FARM PHOTOS SM-ST2078295 “Here to cultivate lasting relationships from planting through harvest and beyond.” Grain Storage • Trucking • Grain Marketing LOCATIONS: 815-625-6119 230 Main Ave., Milledgeville, IL 1684 Nachusa Rd., Dixon, IL 13323 Galt Rd., Sterling, IL BIRD REALTY 1688 Brandywine Lane, Dixon, IL 61021 (815) 973-6768 Licensed in Illinois & Wisconsin birdrealtysells.com • buyilfarms.com ~REAL ESTATE SERVICES AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL~ SM-ST2077554 SUBMITTED BY MITCHELL DIXON
walk… SUBMITTED BY VENUS SCHILPP NIGHT FARMING What a beautiful sunset on the horizon. SUBMITTED BY ELIZABETH BONTZ WALT AND KAREN Walt and Karen going over the days fun.
ROYAL PALM AND HER BABY Taking a
20 FARM PHOTOS Sauk Valley Media/ shawlocal.com/sauk-valley • Saturday, May 27, 2023 SM-ST2075430 ROB YOUNG AUCTIONEERING Rob Young IL441000593 815-632-8000 CASHIER: Dianne Behrens CLERK: Cheri Lockhart
Do you think we’re still getting a happy meal after this??
new life.
Wait ,What I can jump off here?
21 Sauk Valley Media/ shawlocal.com/sauk-valley • Saturday, May 27, 2023 FARM PHOTOS
SUBMITTED BY ROBYN MORESI SHOWING STRENGTH ON THE FARM Thanksgiving 2017
SUBMITTED BY SHAWN SWEENEY MOMMA AND BABY
SUBMITTED BY ANN RUTHERFORD PARTNERS IN CRIME
SUBMITTED BY JEAN SPOHN LITTLE ONES Loving this
22 Sauk Valley Media/ shawlocal.com/sauk-valley • Saturday, May 27, 2023 FARM PHOTOS Agriculture Loans We focus on your finances, so you can focus on your farm. • Operating • Equipment • Livestock • Real Estate www.commstbk.com Morrison • 815-772-4011 Fulton • 815-589-9090 Sterling • 815-625-4300 Rock Falls • 815-625-1110 Dixon • 815-284-8500 Meet Our Ag Lenders: Don Beswick Dean Zuidema Kevin Schisler Brandon Belt Greg Nickrent SUBMITTED BY JORDYN SMITH LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT One of our fainting goats, Aspen, and her first doeling, Magnolia. SUBMITTED BY
STEPHANIE PAYNE BROKEN BARN A retired farm.
23 FARM PHOTOS Sauk Valley Media/ shawlocal.com/sauk-valley • Saturday, May 27, 2023 SM-ST2075347 WICKBUILDINGS.COM 800-356-9682 Commercial Residential Agricultural Retail Suburban Equestrian
24 Sauk Valley Media/ shawlocal.com/sauk-valley • Saturday, May 27, 2023 FARM PHOTOS “Community banking since 1934…We understand the importance of experience, growth, local decisions and longevity in your farming business.” The Fir s t Nat ional Bank in A mboy A mboy • Dixon • Franklin Grove • Monroe Center 220 East Main Stre et, A mboy, Illinois 61310 (815) 857-3625 | ww w.fnbamboy.com Chas Cross NMLS# 1846547 Monroe Center Sarah Wiersema NMLS# 2041883 Amboy Susan Gomez NMLS# 1027602 Amboy Todd Muur NMLS# 591637
David Lloyd NMLS# 1609858 Franklin Grove SM-ST2077721
Dixon
