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Food from Farming Video

Agriculture

Food from Farming: Corn genetics

Food from Farming: Corn genetics

Agriculture

Food from Farming: Tractors and their history

Food from Farming: Tractors and their history

Agriculture

Food from Farming: Analyzing the market

Food from Farming: Analyzing the market

Agriculture

Food from Farming: Soil biology

Food from Farming: Soil biology

Agriculture

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Agriculture

Producing popcorn in Mason County

Producing popcorn in Mason County

Food from Farming Stories

Illinois

Peoria County farmer, ex-broadcaster leaves high-profile Pritzker Administration post

Updated: Jan. 7, 2023 at 12:16 AM CST
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By Howard Packowitz
Peoria County resident led the state agency through the COVID-19 pandemic.

Food, Farms & Biofuel

Producing popcorn in Mason County

Updated: Nov. 30, 2022 at 4:16 PM CST
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By Sarah Michaels and Jason Howell
We’ve learned a lot today so let’s relax with some popcorn while we visit with Steve Turner, a popcorn farmer in Mason County.

Food, Farms & Biofuel

IDNR Director Colleen Callahan and her agriculture start in Central Illinois

Updated: Nov. 30, 2022 at 2:08 PM CST
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By Sarah Michaels and Jason Howell
I’m real partial to pigs -- they got me through college -- and they really were the start of my career

Ag Weather

Agri-business weather with First Alert Chief Meteorologist Chuck Collins

Updated: Nov. 30, 2022 at 12:30 PM CST
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By Chuck Collins and Jason Howell
Hello everybody I’m Chief Meteorologist Chuck Collins with your Corsaw Hardwood Lumber agri-business weather.

Food, Farms & Biofuel

Alpaca farming in Central Illinois

Updated: Nov. 30, 2022 at 11:40 AM CST
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By Sarah Michaels and Jason Howell
We just enjoy what we’re doing -- they’re wonderful animals

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Food, Farms & Biofuel

Pennycress as a cash crop

Updated: Nov. 30, 2022 at 10:20 AM CST
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By Sarah Michaels and Jason Howell
Let’s learn more with Derek Martin in Logan County as he works with an experimental crop - pennycress - to see its value and benefits as a biofuel.

Food, Farms & Biofuel

Buffalo (Bison) farming in Central Illinois

Updated: Nov. 30, 2022 at 9:49 AM CST
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By Sarah Michaels and Jason Howell
We’ve been up in the air so now let’s go to the barnyard and talk to Dan Davis of Gravity Farms LLC in Pontiac about farming buffalo.

Food, Farms & Biofuel

The increasing use of drones in agriculture

Updated: Nov. 30, 2022 at 9:26 AM CST
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By Sarah Michaels and Jason Howell
Drones are playing a role in agriculture. Let’s hear from Garrett Thalgott from the Illinois Farm Bureau on the future of drones in farming.

Food, Farms & Biofuel

Peoria Teen invents a better way to irrigate water, receives a day named after her from the City of Peoria

Updated: Oct. 31, 2022 at 8:49 AM CDT
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By Brett Brooks, M.A.
Kushi, a Dunlap graduate, is taking a gap year after graduating high school early so she can focus on her invention, E-Code. The water irrigation device and app measures water levels in the soil and the predicted weather forecast to determine if you should water your plants, yard or farm.

National

Secret Subsidies: Program meant to help farmers in trade war overspent, lacked transparency and compliance checks

Updated: Oct. 24, 2022 at 8:53 AM CDT
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By Madison McVan, Investigate Midwest, Emily Featherston and Jamie Grey
Experts say $23 billion USDA program set a precedent for spending without Congressional oversight and had a concerning mix of political influence and limited compliance monitoring.

Illinois

80+ farmers harvest fields for Hanna City man battling cancer

Updated: Oct. 12, 2022 at 9:55 PM CDT
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By Jenise Rebholz
80+ farmers harvest fields for Hanna City man battling cancer

Illinois

Pritzker announces commitment from Taiwan to purchase $2.6B in soybean, corn over next two years

Updated: Sep. 23, 2022 at 2:14 PM CDT
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By 25 News Now
The intended sales will take place over 2023 and 2024.

National

Biden announces new support for US biotech production

Updated: Sep. 12, 2022 at 11:46 AM CDT
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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
Biden on Monday signed an executive order launching the initiative and later in Boston will address how biotech can help fight cancer during a visit to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library.

Politics

Congress begins work on next Farm Bill

Updated: Sep. 6, 2022 at 5:56 AM CDT
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By Brendan Cullerton
Congress passes a new Farm Bill every five years. The old U.S. farm policy package will expire next September, and lawmakers are looking into what needs to be in the next version

Illinois

Illinois bee populations declining

Updated: Sep. 1, 2022 at 4:25 AM CDT
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By Ryan Hill
A study from the U.S Department of Agriculture shows Illinois has lost more than a quarter of it’s bee population since last year, a fact that has beekeepers concerned.

National

USDA plans to give $550M to help struggling farmers

Updated: Aug. 24, 2022 at 1:24 PM CDT
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By KTRK staff
This comes from two provisions signed into law under the Inflation Reduction Act.

Illinois Capitol Bureau

State Fair Ag Day: Honoring farmers, inspiring future agriculture leaders

Updated: Aug. 16, 2022 at 4:38 PM CDT
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By Mike Miletich
187 farm families were recognized for their dedication to the land of Lincoln during the Ag Day breakfast Tuesday morning.

National

Growing Concern: Thousands of farms across U.S. damaged by ‘dicamba drift’ that devastates crops

Updated: Aug. 1, 2022 at 2:46 PM CDT
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By Joce Sterman and Emily Featherston
A popular herbicide ingredient some farmers say is vital to business has devastated other farms because of the chemical's ability to drift under certain conditions. Enforcing the rules is in the hands of states, but there is a growing concern over whether federal action needs to be taken.

Ag Weather

25 First Alert agribusiness weather forecast

Updated: Jul. 27, 2022 at 4:20 PM CDT
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By Chuck Collins
Well, hi everybody. I’m Chief Meteorologist Chuck Collins with your Corsaw Hardwood Lumber Agribusiness weather, and top of the agenda has to be drought around Central Illinois.

Food, Farms & Biofuel

Blueberries and understanding the concept of farm to table

Updated: Jul. 27, 2022 at 12:30 PM CDT
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By Sarah Michaels
I went blueberry picking at Braffet Berry Farm.
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