IDOA collected over 16,000 pounds of unwanted pesticides at their annual “Clean Sweep” collection event. This year’s event served 12 counties in southwestern Illinois. It included the collection of unwanted … Read More
While typically you might think of October as ‘harvest season’, for farmers the harvest usually starts in Mid-September. But for some farmers in the Tri-States, they’re just getting started pulling … Read More
A nine-and-a-half-hour drive from Illinois to Nebraska is a regular day in the life for corn and soybean farmer Mark Tuttle. Five days a week, the DeKalb County native transports … Read More
Major manufacturers like John Deere are feeling the impact of extreme weather and the ongoing trade on the ag industry. Caterpillar says sales of tractors and combines have been down … Read More
President Trump today signed the U.S.-Japan Trade Agreement, which is an important step forward with U.S. agriculture’s fourth-largest export market. The Japan bilateral agreement keeps intact essentially all the trade … Read More
Many farmers hoped for some additional heat units in September to help late-planted crops catch up on maturity. And most got just that. The statewide temperature last month averaged a … Read More
Today’s tough economic times are affecting farmers’ bottom lines. How to cope? Here are some ideas from four farmers: Use technology wisely, sell direct to end users, don’t forget carbon … Read More
The U.S. on Wednesday said it would slap 10% tariffs on European-made Airbus planes and 25% duties on French wine, Scotch and Irish whiskies, and cheese from across the continent … Read More
Employee activism and outside pressure have pushed big tech companies like Amazon, Microsoft and Google into promising to slash their carbon emissions. But there’s another thing these tech giants aren’t … Read More
U.S. Department of Agriculture Deputy Under Secretary Scott Hutchins announced today that the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) has invested $11 million in research that will support specialty … Read More
