Farmer Resource Materials
Food and Farming Information for Meaningful Consumer Conversations
Illinois Farm Families is happy to provide resources and materials that support conversations and information sharing. If you have questions about how to use these resources, please submit your question and we’ll respond to you directly. When using the social media materials, please tag Illinois Farm Families and share the watchusgrow.org website link where possible.
Farm & Consumer Info
- ARTICLE: Few differences in milk and health of organic, regular cows (243.61 KB)
- BLOG POST: Should You Feed Your Infant Raw Milk? (2.57 MB)
- Dairy Nutrition Power Point (1.06 MB)
- Farm Terms: Beef Cattle (615.97 KB)
- Farm Terms: Cow-Calf (615.63 KB)
- Farm Terms: Crops (621.56 KB)
- Farm Terms: Dairy (64.34 KB)
- Farm Terms: Pigs (612.31 KB)
- Food and Labeling Terms (42.12 KB)
- Food and Nutrition Resources To Use (1.92 MB)
- How To Thaw Ground Beef PDF (561.76 KB)
- Sodium Nitrate Fact Sheet (420.62 KB)
- USDA Beef Grading Guide PDF (2.78 MB)
Social Media Assets
- GIF - County Fair Map (3.01 MB)
- Image - We Are #FarmersOfIllinois (103.13 KB)
- Infographic - 4 Farmer Food Tips (435.07 KB)
- Infographic - 5 Things Your Local Butcher Should Tell You (343.77 KB)
- Infographic - 5 Types of People You Will See at County Fairs (388.69 KB)
- Infographic - 70% More Food by 2050 (708.00 KB)
- Infographic - 97% of IL Farms Family Owned (425.10 KB)
- Infographic - All pork is free of added hormones (644.01 KB)
- Infographic - Antibiotic Process Tree (668.42 KB)
- Infographic - Antibiotics In Your Milk (1.45 MB)
- Infographic - Born in a Barn (3.45 MB)
- Infographic - Cage-Free (386.76 KB)
- Infographic - Chemical Application Football Field (325.00 KB)
- Infographic - Chili Ingredients (133.63 KB)
- Infographic - Free-Range (449.22 KB)
- Infographic - GMOs and Food Waste (605.93 KB)
- Infographic - Grain Fed vs Grass Fed Beef (252.19 KB)
- Infographic - Hormone-Free (359.53 KB)
- Infographic - Hormones In Your Food (1.56 MB)
- Infographic - Know Your "Free" Labels (Title Slide) (235.06 KB)
- Infographic - Milk Farm to Store (529.14 KB)
- Infographic - Organic Conventional Venn Diagram (232.31 KB)
- Infographic - Organic vs. Conventional Nutrition and Safety (946.63 KB)
- Infographic - Pasture-Raised (446.39 KB)
- Infographic - Steaks 101 (415.25 KB)
- Infographic - Still have questions? Ask a farmer. (511.59 KB)
- Infographic - Sustainable Food Supply Wheel (678.24 KB)
- Infographic - Taco Ingredients (135.75 KB)
- Infographic - Top 5 Reasons to Visit a County Fair (381.99 KB)
- Our Food. Our Farmers. BACON (1.02 MB)
- Our Food. Our Farmers. BEEF (759.39 KB)
- Our Food. Our Farmers. CHEESE (705.20 KB)
- Our Food. Our Farmers. MILK (668.54 KB)
- Our Food. Our Farmers. POPCORN (1.31 MB)
- Our Food. Our Farmers. VEGGIES (714.19 KB)
- Slideshow - Growing More With Less (GMOs) (2.05 MB)
- VIDEO A Trillion Meals (GMOs) (12.30 MB)
- VIDEO Antibiotic Use on Farms (15.10 MB)
- VIDEO Bacon Wrapped Filet Recipe (22.62 MB)
- VIDEO Beef Sustainability (355.12 KB)
- VIDEO Circle of Sustainability (28.14 MB)
- VIDEO Deconstructed Fair Food (7.22 MB)
- VIDEO Do GMOs Matter (1.41 MB)
- VIDEO Food Safety Starts on the Farm (7.95 MB)
- VIDEO How Local is Local (13.98 MB)
- VIDEO List of 10 GMOs (6.51 MB)
- VIDEO Meat Cuts (3.52 MB)
- VIDEO When Labels Lie (17.14 MB)
Consumer Research
- Consumer Research Highlights PDF (4.86 MB)
- Food and Health Survey 2017 (6.39 MB)
- Food and Health Survey 2017 SUMMARY (2.72 MB)
Talking with Consumers
- 10 Guiding Principles for Talking With Consumers PDF (725.03 KB)
- Consumer Benefits of Biotechnology - Talking Points (55.22 KB)
- How to Talk With Consumers PDF (1.34 MB)
- The Art and Science of Healthy Eating - Presentation by Jodie Shield, MEd,RDN, LDN (7.14 MB)
- Top 10 Consumer Questions About GMOs - Presentation (1.16 MB)
Content for Publications
Regarding use of “Content for Publications” materials: The list of articles are blog posts that have performed well for IFF and can be used for other publications. The following experts have approved use of any of their posts or perspectives for external use: Jodie Shield, Court White, Wesley Lyons. Any blogs dated after June 1, 2017 are approved for use unless otherwise noted below. Please give credit to the author and Illinois Farm Families with a link to www.watchusgrow.org when you use these materials.
- ABC's of the VFD - What it means for antibiotics in your food (Article) (96.61 KB)
- ABC's of the VFD - What it means for antibiotics in your food (Image) (44.24 KB)
- It Could Only Be Fresher If You Picked It Yourself (Article) (92.51 KB)
- It Could Only Be Fresher If You Picked It Yourself (Image) (36.88 KB)
- Let's Talk About Chemicals (Article) (101.79 KB)
- Let's Talk About Chemicals (Image) (48.39 KB)
- Some Say GMOs Are Safe, Some Say GMOs Are Unsafe - Who Should I Believe? (Article) (85.08 KB)
- Some Say GMOs Are Safe, Some Say GMOs Are Unsafe - Who Should I Believe? (Image) (32.58 KB)
- Steak, Cheese, Bacon. We're excited, too. (Article) (82.14 KB)
- Steak, Cheese, Bacon. We're excited, too. (Image) (30.00 KB)
- The Cruelest Thing I Saw On A Hog Farm (Article) (98.39 KB)
- The Cruelest Thing I Saw On A Hog Farm (Image) (46.99 KB)
- VIDEO Bacon Wrapped Filet Recipe (22.62 MB)
- What I Witnessed on an Illinois Farm (Article) (94.33 KB)
- What I Witnessed on an Illinois Farm (Image) (38.91 KB)
- Why I No Longer Believe Monsanto is the Devil (Article) (93.01 KB)
- Why I No Longer Believe Monsanto is the Devil (Image) (31.65 KB)
- You Won't Find a Horse and Plow on My Farm - Here's Why (Article) (81.27 KB)
- You Won't Find a Horse and Plow on My Farm - Here's Why (Image) (27.20 KB)
