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Producers know that the timing and amount of winter moisture affect farming conditions for the rest of the year.
Residents are being urged to avoid handling or attempting to capture sick or dead birds.
DESTIHL Brewery’s Roots Lager is brewed with local corn from a Knox County farm, celebrating Illinois farmers.
The program offers a discount of up to $5 per acre on crop insurance for cover crops planted in fall 2024 and insured in 2025.
If her farming ancestors could see her now
Winter wheat emerged reached 89 percent, compared to the 5-year average of 83 percent.
Detasseling corn used to be a rite of passage for some young people in the Midwest. Jason Cope, co-founder of farm tech company PowerPollen, thinks it’s essential to mechanize arduous tasks like detasseling.