Steve Wentworth
Agricultural Industries Expert

Steve Wentworth has been a corn and soybean farmer and agricultural industry leader since 1974.  Located in the Decatur area, he has served leadership positions with the Macon County and Illinois Farm Bureaus, Macon County Agricultural Extension, Macon County Corn and Soybean Growers, Illinois Corn Growers and several offices with the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA), including president.

He has also served the U.S. Feed Grains Council, Foundation E.A.R.T.H., Corn Belt and Evergreen FS boards of directors, Midwest Greenhouse LLC, University of Illinois and Millikin University boards and committees.

Wentworth holds a Bachelor of Science degree in agricultural economics from the University of Illinois and is a graduate of the Agricultural Leaders of Tomorrow, Illinois Agricultural Leadership Foundation and Harvard Agri-Business Seminar.  He worked for Palmer-American National Bank as a farm manager before becoming a full-time farmer.  He also worked as the federal agricultural policy advisor for the Illinois Department of Agriculture in the mid-1990s.

Wentworth has devoted volunteer leadership time to the Macon County United Way, the Maroa-Forsyth School Board and his church.  As a spokesperson for NCGA, he worked on the Clean Air Act, ethanol promotion, biotechnology and represented U.S. corn growers in international trade talks.  He has been recognized as an outstanding farmer by several organizations, including the Illinois and American Farm Bureaus and Decatur Jaycees and received the Macon County Young Farmer and Conservation Farmer awards.