The dairy checkoff hosted more than 100 national and international health and wellness experts for a two-day scientific conference addressing the dairy matrix, the concept of exploring the unique nutrient, non-nutrient and molecular compositions of dairy foods.



Almost 500 junior exhibitors from across the state traveled to the Illinois Beef Expo to exhibit their steers and heifers, including students from the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences.




Three ounces and a cloud of dust! That phrase came to mind as I finished up the “frost” seeding in very dry warm conditions.


I just saw a map of the affected drought areas of 2012 and right now and they looked awfully similar to the one for 2024.


March weather has come in like a lamb, so if the saying is true, it will turn into a lion at some point this month. It is still winter, but we are inching closer to spring.