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Traci Barkley, farmer and director of Sola Gratia Farm in Urbana, and Ed Dubrick, farmer and founder of DuChick Ranch in Cissna Park and policy organizer with Illinois Stewardship Alliance,
Two area residents will be among more than a dozen Illinois farmers who will travel to Washington, D.C., on Thursday to urge Congress to support a new farm bill.