Illinois Soybean Association is excited to celebrate outstanding individuals in agriculture through its annual Achievement Awards.

Biofuels, like E15, are boosting farm businesses, improving the environment and reducing costs at the pump.

The Precision Conservation Management program is wrapping up its 10th year of providing free technical assistance to identify solutions for the environment and farmers’ bottom lines.

Clay Geyer celebrated the end of another successful year on his farm in northern Indiana.

Overall, I believe the corn and soybeans did much better this year than last, but we were done planting this year before May 1.

Good corn yields overall and variable soybean yields with minimal insect and disease pressure were the general theme across the University of Illinois Variety Testing fields.

The 2025 corn and soybean growing season ended as it started — ideal conditions — along with the usual and unusual challenges sandwiched in between.

The amount of corn used for ethanol has flattened since the boom of the mid-1990s through 2010, but a new economic study shows the opportunities an E15 blend would provide.

A favorable fall weather pattern provided the Henert family the ability to complete harvest and fall fieldwork in a timely manner.

Cox Farms enjoyed more grain storage and a more efficient harvest after expanding to a new 125,000-bushel storage bin this fall.

The Illinois Soybean Association has hired Kevin “KJ” Johnson as the new director of government relations and strategy.

Ropp Jersey Cheese has transitioned from using milk produced on-site to milk from another family farm for its cheese products.

Brian Rexing, an Indiana dairy farmer and a member of the Dairy Farmers of America cooperative, was chosen as the National Milk Producers Federation’s 15th chairman at the organization’s Joint Annual Meeting.

Jim Henry points to biofuels — not export demand — as the key driver for corn and soybean markets in the future.

At 92, Mom had outlived all her siblings and all her classmates, but her passing has left a big hole to fill in all the love she poured into all the friends and family that were lucky enough to know her.

The Illinois Corn Growers Association announces its fourth annual ICGA Scholarship Program, supporting students pursuing degrees in agriculture.

Despite the latest — and delayed — crop balance sheets showing only slight changes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s reports painted the trade screens red.

With limited data, in some cases, the U.S. Department of Agriculture released its first World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report since September.

Minimal changes were made in “I” state corn and soybean average yields in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s crop production report.

We figured we were probably 5% over our Actual Production History for the year in both corn and soybeans and actually our toughest ground did better than our better ground this year.

As the fall harvest season comes to a close, farmers are carefully studying their balance sheets.

This year’s harvest is definitely not as good as last year, but better than I had feared.

Agricultural conditions across the Corn Belt are strained in part due to concerns about China’s elimination of soybean purchases and low crop prices, according to a Federal Reserve survey.

An Illinois grain farmer and popular host of podcasts, radio and television shows was the guest speaker at Eureka Savings Bank’s recent inaugural ag event.

IL Corn’s executive director, Rodney Weinzierl, and managing director, Jim Tarmann, were each awarded the Honorary American FFA Degree during the National FFA Convention & Expo.

Jim Henry shares some long-awaited positive trade news — a meaningful step to reestablishing a stable, long-term relationship with the world’s largest buyer of soybeans.

From service in the Air Force to a career in agricultural real estate, Craig Stevenson’s journey has taken him around the world and then back home to Indiana.

After college, Marcus Maier got a full-time job, but he still had the notion of joining the Army in the back of his mind.

Kyle Martz knew as an eighth-grade student that he was going to join the Army and serve his country.

When Randy Rosengren graduated from high school, he could not wait to start farming with his dad, but first he choose to complete his military service.

Landowners and farmers should consider a flexible cash lease to accommodate changing prices and yields during the growing season, which allows farmers to minimize some risk and for landowners to capture higher profits.

A farmer and biodiesel facility quality control manager, both from Illinois, were among the newly appointed Sustainable Advanced Biofuel Refiners Coalition directors.

Two farms were honored with the inaugural Weaver Popcorn Manufacturing Stewardship Award, presented by the Indiana State Department of Agriculture and Weaver Popcorn Manufacturing.

Indiana agriculture took center stage as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins visited Everett Farms and Seed LLC in Lebanon ahead of her keynote address to the 98th National FFA Convention & Expo in Indianapolis.

With the warm, dry conditions, harvest is almost complete at Riskedal Farms, where some corn and sunflowers remain to be picked.

An expanded soybean portfolio, new herbicide formulation and a new trait on the near horizon are flowing through the pipeline fueling the future of agriculture.

Soybean yields have been a record on almost every farm in our neck of the woods. Corn has been the same.

With the harvest near the finish line, corn growers turn toward their nitrogen plans for the 2026 growing season that may include a fall application.

Draining excess water from farm fields in Illinois is vital to food and renewable fuel production. However, the lack of adequate farm drainage is a serious problem.

In 2018, Blake Twenhafel started BT Lawn Care with one customer, and during the next few years, he expanded his business to include over 50 commercial and residential properties.

American soybean farmers are fretting over not only this year’s crop, but the long-term viability of their businesses, built in part on China’s once-insatiable appetite for U.S. beans.

One of the oldest sayings in poker warns that if you’re in a game for 20 minutes and haven’t figured out who’s the patsy — the player most likely to be the game’s biggest loser — you’re the patsy.

Katie Nelsen has been named the new executive director of public policy at Indiana Farm Bureau.

Jim Henry warns that farmers across the Midwest face an urgent challenge this harvest season: limited grain storage capacity.

Thousands of small-scale farmers in Malawi are using a generative AI chatbot designed by the non-profit Opportunity International for farming advice.

Yield/Profit Challenge has eight years of on-farm trial data in the books to document which systems provide the best return-on-investment for crop production.

A company that offers an ocean-sourced limestone replacement is expanding into the Midwest for farmers.

For over two decades, the Beck’s Practical Farm Research program has provided data-driven information to help farmers make agronomic decisions on their own farms.

Farm income concerns along with state and federal issues continue to be a focus of Illinois Farm Bureau.

I admire those older ranchers for their work ethic and their passion to care for their flock, but it is hard to duplicate that in the younger generation.