The Cornjerkers (Illinois) are the No. 8 seed in the South region, while the Winged Beavers (Connecticut) are No. 9.

By Tom Polansek CHICAGO, March 13 (Reuters) - U.S. grain prices have surged since the Iran war began, triggering a flurry of ...

The Smith family captures value from cover crops twice—first as high-quality cattle feed and then as biological fuel for ...

In Southern Minnesota farmers are done with the soybean harvest and are quickly moving through corn with the help of Mother Nature. While the corn crop in other areas of the Corn Belt has fallen short ...

A crop scientist and two brewers spent nearly a decade breeding a better popcorn — and you can taste the difference.

Grain elevators, resembling industrial silos from a different century, rise above the level winter fields along the Mississippi River in southern Illinois. Barges were waiting in long steel lines ...

You think all corn roots are the same? Then you’ve likely never paid close attention to roots on corn exhibited at county fairs. This summer, check out a county fair with 4-H crops on display, ...

Five Illinois producers, including one from Dixon, were honored Thursday as 2026 Master Farmers at Prairie Farmer magazine’s annual event in Bloomington. For more than 100 years, the award has ...

Chinese state-backed money is remaking the hemisphere’s ports, reshaping grain routes to Asia and squeezing U.S. farmers as tariffs deepen the split with Washington.

Most Route 66 wayfarers roll into Funks Grove, 142 miles after revving up their Mother Road odyssey of neon nostalgia and kitschy Americana from Chicago to California, and make a beeline for the Sirup ...

ADM has appointed Michael McMurray, former executive vice president and chief financial officer of LyondellBasell Industries N.V., as its newest board member, effective March 9. McMurray has more than ...

With an increase in severe storms and high winds, row crop farmers are looking for new ways to work with Mother Nature.