2022 Spring Farm Outlook

Page 38 Spring 2022 Logan County Farm Outlook LINCOLN DAILY NEWS March / April 2022 Spring 2022 Logan County Farm Outlook LINCOLN DAILY NEWS March / April 2022 Page 39 D uring the annual Logan County 4-H Foundation fundraiser dinner and awards on March 13th, 2022, John Fulton was honored as a 2021 Illinois 4-H Hall of Fame Inductee. John Fulton’s remarkable 36-year-career with the University of Illinois Extension began as an agriculture advisor and then he went onto being a County Director serving Logan, Menard, and Sangamon Counties. Fulton served on multiple regional, state, and national committees and was an active member multiple professional associations. Fulton said that in all his years with Extension, the highlight of his work has been the people he’s met along the way. Fulton is the proud father of three grown children, who went through the 4-H program and attribute their success to the knowledge gained in 4-H. He is also the grandfather to four grandchildren and the husband of Sherry Fulton. Retired for several years, John Fulton continues as a proud supporter of the 4-H program in Logan, Menard and Sangamon Counties, and 4-H appreciates his dedication over the years and for the years to come! [LDN/ Logan County Extension] inducted into Illinois 4-H Hall of Fame John Fulton N ovember 15, 2021 was a bittersweet day for Angie Peifer as she and family members celebrated a huge accomplishment by her late husband Jim Peifer. Peifer, a Logan County native and life-long farmer was honored at the United Suffolk Sheep Association Hall of Fame along with his business partner Kurt Birky. Jim was there in spirit only, as he had passed away several years prior in 2013. Peifer and Birky were actually selected to be inducted in the Hall of Fame in 2020. But when the coronavirus took over the world that year, the Hall of Fame ceremony was cancelled. Therefore, the two nominees representing Illinois and three other nominees from other states had a year to digest their accomplishment before attending the official induction ceremony in Louisville, Kentucky, in 2021. Recently Angie spoke to LDN about the induction. “We were notified in mid-2020 that Jim and his partner Kurt would be inducted but due to covid the 2020 recognition dinner was cancelled and postponed to 2021.I felt so proud of Jim and so honored to have him recognized for his hard work, but in some ways, it was bittersweet as he isn’t here to enjoy this.” At the same time, knowing her husband as she did, she had a vivid picture of what the honor would have meant to him. “He would have been ecstatic - and surprised. I can just imagine his smile at getting this news and how he would have enjoyed every minute of the recognition dinner.” Jim Peifer began raising Suffolk sheep in 1987. As a Logan County farmer, he had inducted into the Suffolk Sheep Association Hall of Fame Logan County native Jim Peifer Continue 8