A central Illinois farmer says he’s optimistic that 2025 can still be a profitable growing season. John Klemm, who grows corn ...

Corn planted reached 54%, compared to 41% last year, and the five-year average of 60%. Soybeans planted reached 51%, compared ...

The USDA says some Illinois farmers made significant planting progress last week. Monroe County farmer Kenneth Hartman, Jr., ...

One acre of corn can produce oxygen for 130 people a year—but cloudy days cut that output in half. Here’s how sunlight powers ...

Summer is back, which means the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will return with its Agronomy Days series, where Illinois growers can learn more about the latest productivity, profitability, ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) – It was a relatively low-stress selection show for Illinois men’s golf. The Illini have known for months they’ll be hosting an NCAA regional. On Wednesday ...

Illinois Field, one of the top collegiate facilities in the Midwest, was constructed in 1988. The home of the Fighting Illini, which seats over 5,000, added a FieldTurf surface in 2020.

Vast fields feed cutting-edge self-driving combines equipped with multi-row headers that sever stalks and thresh kernels in one swift pass. Conveyors transport golden harvest to towering dryers ...

Ammonium nitrate, an artificial fertilizer, provided a huge boost to the corn crop by replacing the nitrogen in the soil. The same field could be planted in corn without crop rotation. Secondly ...

NAPERVILLE, Illinois, April 24 (Reuters) - Back for their eighth edition, the U.S. Crop Watch producers are off to their quickest-ever start on planting their corn and soybean fields. However ...

farmer and FedEx pilot Chris Gould, that could actually happen. “It would be cool to be burning the product I’m growing,” says Gould, who also serves as an Illinois Corn Growers Association director.

The co-founder of Lakril (LOCK-rill) Technologies says the company’s bio-based acrylics could be a boon for corn farmers. Chris Nicholas says they’ve developed a process to replace petroleum-based ...