 Eventually farmers, businessmen, bankers and newspapermen organized to become the DeKalb County Soil Improvement Association, which later was split into DeKalb County Farm Bureau and DeKalb Agricultural Association (DEKALB AgResearch, Inc., Monsanto).DeKalb County is credited with being the birthplace of the Farm Bureau movement.DeKalb County is also the 2nd largest hog producing county in Illinois and the 66th largest in the nation.