A combine fire slowed Jay Whalen’s harvest progress, but it could have gone a lot worse.

My niece, Eliza Gutierrez, is running the auger cart. My sister, Melissa Whalen Smith, is moving the header cart and drives one of the semis.

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.

A major expansion of the Illinois Crop Improvement Association laboratory facilities as part of its ongoing commitment to growth and service is complete.

The corn yields are about average, around actual production history. They are not as good as the last couple of years.

Corn and soybean harvest has begun for Cliff Lane with yields ranging from average to above average.

With unprecedented herbicide tolerance and flexibility, Vyconic soybeans are set to transform how farmers approach weed management.

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.

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.