The Illinois Beef Association, with Illinois Extension, is providing six informational Beef Quality Assurance certification meetings.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, a healthy compost pile should include a mix of “greens” — like pumpkin scraps and food waste — and “browns” like dry leaves, straw or cardboard, in ...

Soybean yields have been a record on almost every farm in our neck of the woods. Corn has been the same. We’ve seen some really great yields even on the variable soils that we have.

The Swartz family had about 450 acres of corn left to be harvested Oct. 14 after wrapping up the soybean harvest several weeks prior. Craig Swartz was trucking corn to the bin from a field near Wing ...

DEKALB, Ill. — With the harvest near the finish line, corn growers turn toward their nitrogen plans for the 2026 growing ...

LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. — Farm Foundation, in partnership with The Mosaic Company Foundation for Sustainable Food Systems and the ...

Global agriculture company Alltech broke ground on a new $4.6 million, 15,000-square-foot manufacturing facility that will ...

Agricultural conditions across the Corn Belt are strained in part due to concerns about China’s elimination of soybean ...

Cattle supplies are at a 70-year low, beef prices are skyrocketing and America’s ranchers are receiving the highest prices in history for their cattle.

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association is accepting nominations for the 2026 Environmental Stewardship Awards.

Ideally, heifers should conceive their first calf at 15 months of age and calve by 24 months. Breeding early sets her and her ...