Agriculture
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Recent aerial applicator crashes draw attention to safetyAug 14, 2025 4:23 pm - Summer skies fill with planes and helicopters in rural Illinois every summer as corn and soybean fields need crop protection. However, the risk to aerial applicators was magnified last month with four crashes within eight days in Illinois.
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‘Creating a little wine community’: Geneva Winery expands production in Elburn, plans to grow
Aug 12, 2025 11:31 am - Brent Copstead, owner of Geneva Winery, is expanding the business to include an event venue, vineyard and larger production facility.
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Sonny Acres to build special event space, The Barn on NorthAug 12, 2025 10:30 am - Sonny Acres, the farm and family entertainment complex in West Chicago, is building a 7,000-square-foot building, The Barn on North, to host special events.
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Why burgers cost so much right now
Aug 11, 2025 9:32 am - There’s no question that steak and hamburgers contribute to global warming, driven by cows’ potent methane burps and their wide-ranging grazing habits. But a warming planet with intensifying extreme weather is also affecting the price of your steak and hamburgers.
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Illinois Extension’s SNAP education program ending, impacting food security for 1 millionAug 05, 2025 9:47 pm - Illinois Extension's nutrition program helping 1 million state residents annually will end due to federal cuts, affecting 2K partnerships and over 200 jobs.
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The world nearly beat polio. But fake records, an imperfect vaccine and missteps aided its comeback
Aug 05, 2025 8:00 am - The World Health Organization has closed in on its bold goal of eradicating polio several times, but the paralytic virus is entrenched in parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan. As workers focus the vaccination campaign there, WHO and partners have been derailed by mismanagement and what insiders describe as blind allegiance to an outdated strategy and a problematic oral vaccine.
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Food prices follow inflation uptick; beef hits record highJul 23, 2025 2:35 pm - Inflation and food prices are on the rise again after a brief downward trend, with the latest Consumer Price Index showing a 0.3% increase in June and 2.7% over the past 12 months.
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Prevent plant crop insurance claims up in southern IllinoisJul 08, 2025 1:01 pm - It is a heavy year for prevent plant crop insurance claims as some farmers, especially in southern Illinois, struggled to find a planting window as the calendar neared July.
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Kane County considers request for solar farm near ElginJun 30, 2025 8:51 pm - A landowner is asking Kane County for permission to install a community solar electric facility on farmland near Elgin.
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Why rice is poised to survive better in a warming world
Jun 30, 2025 1:57 pm - New research looking at future production of six staple crops including wheat, soybeans and sorghum found that rice alone should have the smallest decline in global yields.