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A bottle of Windex led Jessica Rutkoski from a high school in rural Wisconsin to working on crop research and improvement around the globe and back to Midwest wheat fields.

For Cliff Behrmann, bacon runs in the blood. Behrmann is the owner of Behrmann Meat and Processing, a business started by his maternal grandfather and Behrmann’s father.

While recent actions may have led fans — and foes — of biodiesel, including soy biodiesel, to start writing the renewable fuel’s obituary, one biodiesel cheerleader isn’t ready to send flowers.

When it comes to terminology, words matter and when it involves two very separate fuels, Scott Fenwick, technical director for Clean Fuels Alliance America, wants to make sure the public knows the difference.

For Du Quoin native Luke Davison, being named manager of the Du Quoin State Fair was like coming home again.

Even as Eric Miller looks at potentially bumper crops of corn, full-season soybeans and double-crop soybeans, the specter of lower commodity prices lurks.

A variety of popular musical acts, a full slate of harness racing and motorsports and an array of food and product vendors will reflect all the tastes of southern Illinois for the 2024 Du Quoin State Fair.

Amid all the hoopla surrounding the 2024 elections, the Indiana Bacon Festival has a ticket that most everyone can agree on — “Bacon for President 2024.”

Larry McVey was excited to hear that Dodge Trucks was one of the featured brands at the just-wrapped 2024 Historic Farm Days in Penfield, Illinois.

With planting and harvest completed on his farm for now, Eric Miller has plenty to do as the middle of summer arrives.

In another hit to U.S. farmers already dealing with low grain prices, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service grain stocks report held no good news.

Corn and the farmers who grow it weren’t having a good day. Two U.S. Department of Agriculture reports both brought negative news for corn supplies and corn prices.

One of the longest-running sponsorships in U.S. motorsports is also one of the largest. Hall Brothers Racing, headquartered in central Illinois, has been sponsored by the Dodge brand since 2001.

Derek Harms hopes to be seeing red when the tractors get ready to pull during Historic Farm Days.

A second quarter U.S. Department of Agriculture Hogs and Pigs report held few surprises for producers and traders.