Did you know that farmers can donate land, grain or equipment directly to their local community foundation?

The Illinois Stewardship Alliance is encouraging farmers, food businesses, cooperatives and community organizations across the state to apply now for the fiscal year 2026 Local Food Infrastructure Grant program, with the enrollment period open through March 27.

Twelve Illinois counties averaged triple-digit wheat yields in 2025, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service.

Many families are facing the difficult decision to sell land, limit production or close their farm altogether, reports Jim Henry.

Military action in the Middle East has disrupted critical shipments of fertilizer and oil as farmers head toward planting.

U.S. farmers continue to face market uncertainty and rising input costs which are being worsened by phosphate duties incurred through antidumping and countervailing investigations.

The 2026-2027 board of directors were announced at the U.S. Soybean Export Council annual meeting.

After two decades of steady grain storage capacity growth that matched production increases, on-farm and off-farm expansion has become stagnant.

The “I” states each lost several hundred farms from 2024 to 2025, along with declines in acreage, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Land in Farms report.