While extending thoughts and prayers to families whose health has been affected by Covid-19, better known as the novel coronavirus, this week’s column is dominated by news of the…
The final county production and yield estimates for Illinois have been published, revealing the effects of 2019’s wild weather year on harvest numbers — we will highlight the reports…
Facing pushback from a poor mid-term report card on their efforts to stem the tide of nitrogen-based fertilizers — also called nutrients — leaching from farm fields into waterways,…
In this Christmas stocking edition of your weekly news roundup for Illinois farmers and rural dwellers, the possibility for stronger corn prices in 2020 nudged higher in December based…
Farmers and grain buyers are beginning to gain a clearer, more accurate idea of what this year’s highly anticipated corn and soybean harvests will bring. Though corn yields…
SPRINGFIELD – Soybean farmers in Illinois cannot catch a break. After a promising trade deal with China last month gave farmers hope amid an intense trade war, the deadly Wuhan coronavirus…
As we begin the new year and the third decade of the 21st century, perhaps the most crucial hurdle facing agriculture remains soil, water and air conservation. With the past decade…
In this week’s R.F.D. News & Views, we have information about an upcoming soybean trade mission to Taiwan, a scheduled hemp growers’ summit with the Illinois Department…
Hinsdale couple file $500 million ...A Hinsdale couple have filed a $500 million claim against a car ...
Suspect charged with reckless homicideA 26-year-old Rolling Meadows man has been charged with reckless homicide in ...
Peoria County losing a legal ...Federal budget cuts directed by President Donald Trump’s Department of Governmental Efficiency ...
Suspect charged in fatal Streamwood ...A suspect has been charged in connection with the stabbing deaths of ...
