If your driver’s license, license plates, or medical cards expired between March 1st – July 31st of this year, you have until September 30th to renew those. For more details, … Read More

As the Turleys chart a different course than most in the dairy industry, finding the sweet spot for profitability and growth means focusing on a core group of food influencers … Read More

American honeybee colonies have bounced back after a bad year, the annual beekeeping survey finds. (Associated Press)

The number of people participating in SNAP went up in March and the cost of the program jumped by nearly 15 percent, to $5.1 billion, new data shows. (Politico)

The Trump administration is considering expanding and raising tariffs on $7.5 billion of imports from the European Union and U.K. that it first imposed last year, part of a long-running … Read More

U.S. cattle and hog futures firmed on Tuesday following two sessions of declines after U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) data showed a larger-than-anticipated decline in cold-storage stocks of pork and … Read More

A streak of big soybean purchases by Chinese buyers has helped make the crop profitable again for U.S. farmers. (Wall Street Journal)

The Small Business Administration partnered with the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation to offer a webinar with an overview of PPP for borrowers. Learn more on our COVID-19 page.  

Producers such as Butter Meat Co. are challenging the American preference for tenderness over flavor. (Bloomberg)

Upcoming lock and dam closures along the Illinois River are set to hamper deliveries of corn, soybeans, animal feed and ethanol for export staging and consumption on the Gulf Coast. … Read More