Our thoughts and actions are dominated by the COVID-19, or novel (as in new) coronavirus pandemic, and its tentacles have intruded into every aspect of daily life, including agriculture….
While many of the state’s residents are rightly “sheltering at home” as directed by Governor J.B. Pritzker in response to the COVID-19 threat, exemptions were made for many in…
SPRINGFIELD — Illinois U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin is accusing the U.S. Department of Agriculture of playing favorites with trade war aid payments by giving more money to southern cotton…
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,…
SPRINGFIELD — This year’s Illinois corn crop could be as much as 17 percent smaller than last year’s crop, while soybean production could fall as much as 21 percent, the U.S….
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…
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…
SPRINGFIELD — Illinois Department of Agriculture Director John Sullivan said Dec. 17 that interest in the newly legalized hemp industry continues to build, but more work needs to…
One killed, another injured in ...One man was killed and another man was injured Monday night in ...
Chicago West Side workforce development ...As Aspire Center for Workforce Innovation, the new workforce development and social ...
Pritzker signs executive order responding ...SPRINGFIELD — Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed an executive order July 14 requiring ...
Chicago man charged with hate ...A Chicago man faces multiple felonies in connection with properties being defaced ...
