With harvest complete and cover crops planted, work at Riskedal Farms is focusing on repairing machinery and deciding what changes they will make for the 2026 growing season.

Mark Bunselmeyer was elected president of the Illinois Corn Growers Association for 2025-2026 at its annual re-organizational meeting.

Several individuals and a family were honored for their contributions in promoting and supporting corn farmers during the Illinois Corn Growers Association’s annual meeting.

The Illinois Corn Growers Association’s prestigious World of Corn Award was presented to Mark Schneidewind, honoring four decades of agricultural leadership with Farm Bureau.

The Illinois Corn Growers Association announced that Laura Lant, an agronomist at Midwest Grass & Forage in Macomb, received the Mike Plumer Environmental Excellence Award at the organization’s annual meeting.

The Illinois Corn Growers Association and Precision Conservation Management presented the 2026 Randy Stauffer Stewardship Award to Whalen Farms.

With lower grain prices, higher interest rates and increased production costs, some farms are facing a challenging financial situation.

American Soybean Association President Caleb Ragland urged Congress and the administration to take immediate action to reduce farm production costs and prevent additional family farm closures.

There are three main components of cow’s milk that can lead people to having a bad reaction.

This is a new scam, but then it’s what we expect from thieves — yet another way to steal from us. This one involves our innocent-seeming bank debit card, a scammer and a pair of scissors.

Even if you’re not a fan of the commercialization of the holidays, store displays can be works of art. But collectors of antique advertising have known this for a long time.

Illinois Soybean Association is excited to celebrate outstanding individuals in agriculture through its annual Achievement Awards.

The way Beck’s Hybrids approaches its business and makes decisions is different than publicly traded companies.

Biofuels, like E15, are boosting farm businesses, improving the environment and reducing costs at the pump.

Clay Geyer celebrated the end of another successful year on his farm in northern Indiana.

The past few years have tested even the most seasoned farmers. Facing rising input costs, unpredictable market access and many other challenges, farmers and ranchers are working harder while margins grow thinner.

At Farm Bureau, we believe that strength is not measured in bushels or bales. It’s measured in our willingness to look out for one another.

Jim Henry gives thanks that the price of a classic Thanksgiving dinner has dropped for the third consecutive year, according to a Farm Bureau survey.

Together, we can help farms of all sizes succeed to ensure America’s ability to be food independent long into the future.

A favorable fall weather pattern provided the Henert family the ability to complete harvest and fall fieldwork in a timely manner.

The Rural Firefighters Delivering Agriculture Safety and Health online course is now live.

The Illinois Soybean Association has hired Kevin “KJ” Johnson as the new director of government relations and strategy.

There’s no wrong way to love your Thanksgiving leftovers. But if you want to do something unbelievably right this year, make this.

Throughout the long history of its use, saffron has always been, and still is, expensive. At some points in history, it has been worth its weight in gold, or even more.

All too frequently we seniors don’t ask for help when we need it, using as an excuse that others need it more. Sound familiar?

In general, if the nerve compression is serious enough to cause weakness, it needs to be acted upon urgently.

After carefully choosing the freshest produce at the market, people face even more choices with vegetables, fruit, meat and dairy products at home that can help prolong freshness, minimize waste and prevent foodborne illnesses.

A small family business saved $60,000 annually by switching to Indiana Farm Bureau Health Plans.

As December draws near, one thing is certain in workplaces across every rural county: the season of feasting is in full swing.

This year, consider this your pre-holiday pep talk from me: Keep it simple, keep it affordable and let your sides work smarter, not harder.

I like Thanksgiving because I like the USA. I like all the opportunities we have only in this great country and nowhere else in the world.

Ropp Jersey Cheese has transitioned from using milk produced on-site to milk from another family farm for its cheese products.

Brian Rexing, an Indiana dairy farmer and a member of the Dairy Farmers of America cooperative, was chosen as the National Milk Producers Federation’s 15th chairman at the organization’s Joint Annual Meeting.

April Lamb of Kosciusko County won first place in the 2025 Indiana Farm Bureau Photo Contest.

Outstanding projects developed by three Illinois FFA members earned them top honors in the nation.

The news that the last American penny has been minted feels a bit like watching an old barn finally sag to the ground.

The Farmers’ Almanac, not to be confused with its older, longtime competitor, The Old Farmer’s Almanac in neighboring New Hampshire, said that its 2026 edition will be its last.

Rural America and farm country has a long history of sending out these brave men and women and supporting them when they return home.

Indiana Pork and the Fort Wayne TinCaps donated over 2,000 ground pork meals to the Community Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Indiana.

The news is in, a week late this year due to the current government shutdown: The expected increase in Social Security benefits will be 2.8% for 2026.

When times feel uncertain and grocery prices make you wince, there’s comfort in knowing that a wholesome, hearty meal doesn’t have to cost much.

In people with familial high cholesterol and extraordinarily high levels of cholesterol, combination therapy with two or three drugs — a statin, a PCSK9i and sometimes ezetimibe — is frequently used.

Some antique arts fade in popularity, but are never truly lost. Embroidery is one of them.

The treatment for ovarian cancer has changed dramatically in the past few years.

The holidays are just around the corner, which means now is the perfect time to get ahead in the kitchen, so you can enjoy a little peace — and dare I say quiet? — later.

Thanksgiving is a holiday steeped in Americana, and what captures that better than the classic cover illustrations of The Saturday Evening Post?

I recently learned a few things about my local food bank that I didn’t know. Maybe your food bank has these services, as well.

At 92, Mom had outlived all her siblings and all her classmates, but her passing has left a big hole to fill in all the love she poured into all the friends and family that were lucky enough to know her.

We figured we were probably 5% over our Actual Production History for the year in both corn and soybeans and actually our toughest ground did better than our better ground this year.

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program feeds more than 41 million people in America every month. That’s roughly one in eight people in this country.