The cost and commodity price squeeze continues as it nears time to plan for next year’s crop and correlating fertilizer ...

Long-term profitability will depend less on producing a good crop and more on earning a profitable price for it, predicts Jim Henry.

Due to driver shortages and other factors, a yellow school bus is no longer available to take many students to school, ...

The Illinois Corn Marketing Board elected a new slate of officers who will help lead the organization’s efforts to invest ...

Sept. 27 is National Chocolate Milk Day, and, with football, volleyball, soccer, cross country and other fall sports in full ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Three bills targeting townships were recently referred to committees in the Illinois General Assembly. Senate Bill 2217, sponsored by state Sen. Suzanne Glowiak Hilton, D-Western ...

After applying fungicide and insecticide on 160 acres of corn in the morning, Jay Whalen rinses out the drone for a second round of applications in the afternoon. Once the window for liquid ...

With Memorial Day in the rearview mirror and schools in my area closed until fall, we’ve shifted into a different pace of life — not quite officially summer, but close enough that you can feel it in ...

Wind and solar farms, data centers and battery storage sites have been in the headlines, and farm managers were surveyed to ...

For Brad Shippert, of rural Dixon, driving his monster truck Against the Grain is not as smooth a ride as many might think.

We have had too much rain, but I will also tell you I am feeling pretty blessed compared to what others have had. A simple example is last week I had seven-tenths of an inch of rain in my rain gauge ...

“Soundtrack of Summer” is the theme of a 1,500-pound cheese sculpture at the Indiana State Fair. The American Dairy Association Indiana Inc. has presented a cheese sculpture at the State Fair since ...