Ag News

An Illinois appellate court has upheld a $16 million judgment awarded to the families of two people who died in a 2010 grain bin accident in northwestern Illinois.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says rain is delaying winter wheat harvest and hay cutting in northern and central Illinois.

A company in northwestern Illinois has developed a device for rescuing workers trapped in grain bins.

Missouri farmers averaged less than a day of fieldwork last week because of above-average rainfall that has caused corn and soybean planting to fall a little behind.

Illinois agriculture officials are hosting buyers from seven foreign countries this week in an effort to increase export sales for the state's pork industry.

A Chicago nonprofit and the Illinois Farm Bureau hope to bring the state's agriculture and business industries together to turn the city and state into a global hub for farm and food-production.

Missouri farmers are lagging far behind average in planting this year's corn crop, especially in the southeast region.

Agriculture officials want to recognize more Missouri farms that have been in the same family for at least 100 years.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's chief veterinary officer says the country's poultry industry may have to live with a deadly bird flu strain for several years and it could be devastating.

A land-managers' organization says farmland prices fell across much of Illinois in 2014 but more sharply in the eastern part of the state than other areas.