Overall, the weather for harvest has been amazing. We could not ask for a better harvest forecast than what we have encountered so far.
A $15 million investment in the National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Center at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville will expand the facility and provide opportunities for new bio-products using corn to scale to commercialization.
Southern Illinois University Carbondale researchers are working to design a robot and program its artificial intelligence models to detect soybean diseases before symptoms appear.
Over 100 years ago, Henry A. Wallace’s interest in science and agriculture led to experimenting with hybridization to develop a corn variety with higher yield.
With harvest rolling along, revealing the good, the bad and the ugly, it’s an ideal time to evaluate weed pressure and plan for 2027.
Farmers enrolling in Precision Conservation Management have a wide range of practices on their farms.
Eighty students from local FFA chapters were able to get their hands dirty and learn about land use at the Section 2 FFA Land Use Contest in northwestern Illinois.
Dana Merriman, Rock Falls High School’s agriculture teacher and FFA adviser, is building the school’s ag and FFA program from the ground up.
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