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SENATE RESOLUTION

 
2    WHEREAS, The Brazinski Pork Farm of Coulterville received
3the 2021 Illinois Pork Producers Association Family of the
4Year Award; and
 
5    WHEREAS, The Brazinski Pork Farm produces 34,000 market
6hogs per year and runs a row crop farming operation that
7includes 2,200 acres of corn, soybeans, and wheat; and
 
8    WHEREAS, The Brazinski Pork Farm is a family farm and is
9led by Jim Brazinski; he is president of the pig production
10companies Grand View Farm and Grand Tower Farm and a service
11agency Corn Silk LLC and owns Brazinski Pork Farm; and
 
12    WHEREAS, Jim Brazinski's family has an extensive farming
13background; the maternal side of his family arrived in the
14U.S. in the 1850s; his paternal family fled Lithuania due to
15political tensions; his grandfather established the family
16farm in Coulterville in the 1920s; and
 
17    WHEREAS, Jim Brazinski's parents raised their children
18along with many animals on their farm; his brother began
19raising hogs for a 4-H project in 1966; and
 
20    WHEREAS, Jim Brazinski graduated from SIU Carbondale in

 

 

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11984 and started constructing more hog buildings on their
2family farm with the family doing most of the construction to
3keep costs down; they still build a lot of equipment in their
4shop today; and
 
5    WHEREAS, In 2006, upon the suggestion of Dr. Bill Hollis,
6the Brazinski Family Farm joined a sow farm to improve the
7consistency of their pig flows and to be able to raise larger
8groups of pigs all the same age; and
 
9    WHEREAS, Family has always been a huge part of the
10Brazinski Pork Farm values; Jim Brazinski and his siblings
11continue to make sure that their mother, who has Alzheimer's
12disease, is taken care of along with their father; and
 
13    WHEREAS, After several failed attempts to use caregiving
14agencies, the Brazinski family decided to form a small LLC
15called Corn Silk and hire their own caregivers; they formed
16Corn Silk with the belief that care needed to be
17compassionate, reliable, and the best possible for their
18parents; and
 
19    WHEREAS, The farm currently employs six full-time
20employees and two part-time employees and has a total of four
21farms that contract finish hogs for the Brazinski family; and
 

 

 

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1    WHEREAS, The Brazinski family continues to strive to
2produce the best possible pork; and
 
3    WHEREAS, A 13-year member of the Marissa School Board, Jim
4Brazinski is an avid volunteer and is a member of St. Anthony's
5Lively Grove Catholic Church; he remains grateful, especially
6when reminded of the hardships that his family has had to
7endure; therefore, be it
 
8    RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED SECOND GENERAL
9ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we declare November 2,
102021 as Brazinski Family Farm Day; and be it further
 
11    RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
12presented to the Brazinski family as a sign of our respect and
13esteem.