URBANA, Ill. — Global financial markets collapsed in March 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the world. But weeks earlier, soybean futures had already started providing an early warning sign of troubles ahead.
HAVANA, Ill. — Madison Hofreiter’s senior year at Havana High School wasn’t what she expected. The on-going pandemic meant “no homecoming, no sports no clubs.” Then tragedy struck with the death of a close friend by suicide.
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ANKENY, Iowa — Climate and opportunity were two ideas that kept popping up during U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack’s visit to Iowa Oc…
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ANKENY — The country’s top agriculture official said in Iowa on Wednesday that he hopes Deere & Co. and its striking workers achieve a rap…
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NEW MEMPHIS, Ill. — Joe Kehrer expected outstanding corn yields for 2021. Unfortunately, he isn’t seeing them.
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EASTON, Ill. — Chris Schoor, with his “cabin dog” Blue, loads wagons and semis as his dad, Ron Schoor, combines.
CARMI, Ill. — It’s an increasingly common comment in Illinois this year regarding the corn crop: “Yields are probably the best we’ve ever had,…
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