Farmers now have until Tax Day, April 15, to sign up for the 2010 Soybean Yield Challenge.
The unique, new program coordinated by the Illinois Soybean Association (ISA) and funded by the soybean checkoff is designed to give soybean growers and soy industry leaders an opportunity to collaborate on the best ways to maximize yields in each of Illinois nine crop reporting districts.
"This is going to give us a tremendous amount of data to increase yields on their (Yield Challenge ...
GRIP premiums in Illinois highly variable
Group Risk Income Plan (GRIP) is a county revenue product that bases guarantees and payments on county yields rather than on farm yields. ...
Input costs rising into planting season
The price to plant this years crops seems to keep going up for farmers who havent locked in their input purchases.
The Illinois ...
Congress, HSUS ramps up livestock concerns
Livestock producers must arm themselves with truth as animal rights activists mobilize for a second round of Midwest consumer-courting and ...
Quinn proposes 1% tax surcharge for education
Governor Pat Quinn today proposed a one-percent income tax surcharge to avoid deep cuts in education. The governor used his budget ...
STATE ISSUE-Legislative Redistricting Reform
