AG secretary Perdue coming to Chenoa

Posted on August 3, 2017
Sonny Purdue will lead a roundtable discussion Monday in Chenoa. (WJBC file photo)

By WJBC Staff

CHENOA – U.S. Agriculture Department Secretary Sonny Perdue’s five-state “Back to our Roots” RV tour plans to visit Chenoa next week.

It’s one of three stops planned in Illinois on Monday. Perdue will join Illinois Department of Agriculture Director Raymond Poe Monday morning in Rochester to talk about the federal farm bill.

Perdue then has planned stops in Chenoa and hold a roundtable discussion at the Evergreen FS plant at 3 p.m.

Perdue will also made a visit to Georgetown in Vermillion County before heading to Indiana.

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