Seven Heartland Community College students placed in a national competition to demonstrate agribusiness skills.

Soybean farmers have benefited from decades of checkoff-funded research that’s pushed yields, and now a program is taking those efforts to the next level.

The timely planting of cover crops for maximum biomass has typically been limited to post-harvest or aerial inter-seeding, followed by the hope of rain for stand establishment.

The old 10-20 gets a second chance as it connects a century of agriculture history and technological advances.

Eight Heartland Community College students placed in a national competition for the demonstration of agribusiness skills.

The Illinois Soybean Association announced the selection of six respected crop advisers and agronomists to serve as ILSoyAdvisor Soy Envoys for the 2024 growing season.

Despite the urging from her high school ag teacher, becoming an ag instructor was not in Miranda Buss’s career plans.

Construction of Heartland Community College’s new agriculture complex is well underway with completion anticipated this fall and open for classes in the spring of 2024.

A Heartland Community College class used a 75-acre farm as its textbook. Heartland’s introduction to regenerative agriculture class toured Epiphany Farms to see firsthand a working farm and event venue that focuses on sustainability and a farm-to-fork concept.

The Illinois Soybean Association is a sponsor of the Heartland Community College Soils Lab, which is part of the college’s new modern ag complex designed to serve the educational and ag workforce needs of central Illinois.

Heartland Community College kicked off the construction of a 29,500-square-foot-facility and outside growing labs which will support agriculture programs and the next generation of ag students.

The current food production system is extracting wealth and disinvesting in rural communities, according to a food systems analyst.

Normal Community High School made a commitment to an expanded agriculture program and hired its first full-time ag teacher in 2014. It was a good move, as the number of students taking ag classes increased from 75 to 80 the first year to about 200 students this school year.

Heartland Community College’s principles of regenerative agriculture class went to the heart of the matter recently when students visited Sunnyside Community Garden and Food Forest.

Illinois will spend $15 million on two academies that will train hundreds of workers in advanced manufacturing skills, with the first students enrolling later this year, Gov. J.B. Pritzker said.