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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.
While U.S. and Illinois hog numbers remain high, there are indications that those numbers may start to come down, yielding some relief for producers haunted by red ink.
What is Steve Meyer’s prescription for the U.S. pork industry to get back to profitability? “Better demand, lower costs, fewer pigs,” said the senior economist with EverAg.
Whether it’s toy tractors, tie rods or tea towels, the vendor show at Historic Farm Days offers something for everyone.
Oregon High School students didn’t just learn framing and roofing in their ag construction class — they also learned about giving back and how hunger might be living right next door.
When Brent Massingill started his career in law enforcement, the training on officer safety during a traffic stop, then as now, focused on the plethora of unknowns that troopers face.
Eric Miller grows more than corn, full-season and double-crop soybeans and wheat on his Piatt County farm.
The Illinois winter wheat crop may not top the 2023 record average state yield — but it won’t be far from that, as the recent Illinois Wheat Association yield tour showed.
Four well-known names in the monster truck world will roll onto the grandstand track of the Boone County Fair on Wednesday, Aug. 7, to add some horsepower to the fair’s weekday schedule.
When the Lee County Fair board of directors made a decision, after their 2021 fair, to discontinue having a carnival on the midway, they took a leap of faith.
It will be 700 fenceposts to the Logan County Fair on Saturday, Aug. 3, as the popular country group Diamond Rio takes the stage at the fairgrounds in Lincoln in central Illinois.