We’re hauling soybean screenings and splits for Consolidated Grain and Barge. They’re getting ready for fall harvest and making final preparations for that.

Dan Sanderson is the recipient of the 2025 Illinois Leopold Conservation Award.

Craig Stevenson, with Geswein Farm & Land Realty from Monon in northwest Indiana, has been recognized as an APEX 2024 Top Twenty National Producer by the REALTORS Land Institute as a part of the RLI APEX Production Awards Program, sponsored by The Land Report.

Prices for every class of cattle are over-the-moon high and the only question I hear is, “When will this bubble burst?” The answer of course is, “Who knows?”

Tiffany iridescent glass, which Louis Comfort Tiffany called Favrile, often sells for high prices.

Metformin, a treatment for diabetes that works mostly by preventing the liver from making sugar, isn’t new and has been used to help people lose weight for at least 20 years.

I can’t control what others say — but I can choose to speak up, share facts and encourage curiosity over fear.

After years of rising input costs and volatile markets, Illinois farmers finally have updated farm policy that reflects their needs in the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” landmark legislation that delivers real, meaningful wins for Illinois farmers.

Tim Thompson was elected Illinois Corn Marketing Board chairman by his peers for the 2025-2026 term.

Eliot Clay didn’t know it in his youth but his later career as an advocate for conservation was in his DNA.

Across major corn-growing states, climate change is fueling conditions that make watching the corn grow a nail-biter for farmers.

“Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” the winning picture in the annual online AgriNews Favorite Farm Photo Contest, was submitted by Erica Rabe.

Autumn is just around the corner, and it’s a busy season on the farm and in Farm Bureau. Harvest is well underway, Congress is heading back into session, and Farm Bureau’s grassroots policy is shaping up for the new year.

Clay Geyer is preparing for the next chapter on the farm — harvest and the Indiana State Corn Husking Contest.

Reed Farms will host the state and national corn husking contests this October.

Struvite is a phosphorus fertilizer that dissolves in the presence of plant roots.

Moms who include dairy in their diet every day can significantly impact a child’s brain development, bone strength and immune system before they even take their first steps.

Starlight Distillery in Borden received the Top Farmer-Distiller award at the 2025 Heartland Whiskey Competition.

The Glass Barn at the Indiana State Fair saw record-breaking attendance this summer, according to the Indiana Soybean Alliance.

Now in its second year, the American Farm Bureau Federation’s Veteran Farmer Award of Excellence honors a veteran or service member for outstanding contributions to agriculture and local communities.

A wind-and-hail storm that rolled through Lee County in north-central Illinois has reduced the yield potential for crops on William Henert’s farm.

Learning about regenerative farming practices triggered a love of farming for Jessica Davies.

School may be starting and the days are getting a touch shorter, but peaches are still strutting their stuff at the farmers market, and they’re at their sweetest right now.

There’s something deeply gratifying about reporting on 4-H and FFA members who are raising animals, showing livestock and learning responsibility through hands-on work.

The term “lupus” generally means systemic lupus erythematosis, or SLE, which is a systemic disorder as its name suggests. So, by definition, it affects multiple systems of the body.

It’s only about a century ago — not that much time, in the world of antiques — that you had to dip a nib pen into an inkwell to sign your name.

Summer is fading and it’s time to start thinking about what cold weather might bring, as well as revisiting the parts of the to-do list that didn’t get completed during the summer.

“Have A Good One — It’s Union Made” is the slogan on this cigar store advertising sign. It could also work as a Labor Day salutation.

A neighbor bemoaned the fact that her husband had signed them up for yet another line dancing class at the senior center.

In people with more severe hearing loss, hyperbaric oxygen has been shown to improve outcomes compared to steroids alone.

While many restaurant dishes seem complicated, this easy pork piccata proves that you can re-create the magic at home.

A report that U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has promised will improve the health of America’s children does not call on the government to make significant changes to its food or farming policies.

The food pyramid that once guided Americans’ diets has been retired for more than a decade, but that has not stopped President Donald Trump’s health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., from regularly criticizing the concept.

Whether organic or conventional, my dad wanted me to understand how my food was grown and to appreciate the men and women who grew it.

On the southern Illinois farm of my youth, August always meant heat, humidity and the best food of the year.

Combining solar projects with grazing animals is a way for livestock producers to expand their operations without depending on land ownership.

Developing a livestock grazing plan during the initial design of solar projects helps to eliminate future problems.

Farmland owners looking for guidance on renewable energy projects can get assistance from the newly formed national association, Renewable Energy Farmers of America.

I’m hustling to keep up with the grass growth and mow under the fence to keep the volts up and my high school help went back to school.

Nathaniel will be marketing his first-ever pastured organic broiler crop as his entrepreneurial debut.

Our county fair is underway and my granddaughter has three of her Shetlands at the 4-H and junior shows.

The Parkers wrapped up a successful weekend at the Illinois State Fair livestock show and returned to their farm with ribbons in hand.

Farm Rescue and FFA will be the beneficiaries as part of a larger auction during the Farm Progress Show.

Winners of the 17th annual Indiana Agriculture Photo Contest were announced at the Indiana State Fair.

The Lake County Fair hosted its inaugural 4-H Urban Ag Expo, highlighting the talents of 11 young people who participated in the county’s new urban agriculture program.

In a period when retail beef prices are at an all-time high and consumers are still willing to pay, South Dakota rancher Calli Williams would love to cash in. But it’s not so simple.

The United States’ suspension of live cattle imports from Mexico hit at the worst possible time for rancher Martín Ibarra Vargas, who after two years of severe drought had hoped to put his family on better footing selling his calves across the northern border.

With one of his final gifts, the late farmer Gene Daiber is planting seeds for the next generation of agriculture leaders in the St. Louis metro area.

In small towns and rural communities across America, hunger often hides in plain sight.

Ken Ropp made his first cheese delivery of the season to Tanners Orchard.