“Illinois Extension depends on USDA support for 43% of its budget, with 19% from Smith-Lever and 23% from SNAP-Ed,” ...

URBANA, Ill. — A nine-year study comparing a typical two-year corn and soybean rotation with a more intensive three-year ...

The Nelsons’ farm is one of nearly 71,000 registered farm operations in Illinois, the third-ranked state in the nation ... Across more than 26 million acres covering 75% of the state’s land, farmers ...

The tornado Friday evening destroyed a house, outbuildings and grain silos in southwest Coles County as it began making its ...

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From batch sales of unopened rocks on eBay to discreet phone calls to higher-dollar patrons, Illinois’ commercial fossil ...

One of the best days of the Illinois high school sports calendar has arrived. It’s super-sectional Monday for boys basketball ...

A Chard farm is clearing away its 20 year-old cherry orchard due to the owners retiring and being unable to find anyone to continue the business.

Illinois’ commercial fossil trade is alive and well thanks to collectors who are motivated by money, science and the hunt — and who test the outer bounds of legality.

Short, 82, is first to admit the land is “a difficult place to farm.” As he grew older and ... for Farmland Research at the University of Illinois, said of conservation easements.

Where land remained, fields were cut in half ... of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois. For ...

The Trump administration on Wednesday announced it will reconsider the reach of the nation’s bedrock clean water law and ...