Agriculture
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Here’s how the Smithsonian Zoo grows bamboo for its pandas
Oct 18, 2024 12:18 pm - At a 3,200-acre facility in rural Virginia, the zoo harvests over 13,000 bamboo stalks a year. The process is ramping up for the new pandas, Bao Li and Qing Bao.
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Farm Foundation celebrates opening of its Innovation and Education Campus in LibertyvilleOct 14, 2024 12:10 pm - The Farm Foundation Innovation and Education Campus, billed as the Chicago area’s first food and agriculture sectors innovation hub, recently opened on the centennial Cas...
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Bacon hogs the spotlight in election debates, but reasons for its sizzling inflation are complex
Oct 10, 2024 3:53 pm - Prices for bacon are always volatile. Among other things, they're subject to weather, animal disease, feed costs, seasonal demand and, according to Harris and other critics, some price gouging by giant food conglomerates.
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DuPage Farm Bureau supports horticulture and agricultural education in GlenbardOct 08, 2024 11:38 am - Glenbard High School District 87 received a $6,000 donation from the DuPage County Farm Bureau to support horticulture and agricultural education at all four Glenbard high schools.
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‘We always seem to find a way’: How novice farmers created a pumpkin patch in GrayslakeOct 07, 2024 9:09 pm - A mix of past and present comes to life when a bouncy house is placed on a 161-year-old farm in Grayslake. The unlikely combination mirrors that of the historic 20-acre ...
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Sugar Grove Pumpkin Farm marks 10 years in businessOct 03, 2024 9:37 am - Starting their 10th season, Mikaya and Dustin Huggins grow more than 100 varieties of pumpkins on their Sugar Grove Pumpkin Farm, 4S041 Merrill Road, Sugar Grove.
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‘Short corn’ could replace the towering cornfields steamrolled by a changing climate
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Tour Liberty Prairie’s outdoor classroomSep 27, 2024 3:26 pm - A drop-in open house and tour of the Living Laboratory, Liberty Prairie’s outdoor classroom, will be held from 9 to noon Oct. 5. The event begins at 8:45 a.m. with check...
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Prospect Heights trying again to reach acceptable regulations on backyard chickensSep 26, 2024 1:52 pm - Prospect Heights officials significantly revised proposed regulations governing backyard chickens kept by residents, which was recommended by the planning and zoning board Wednesday night.
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How the Richardson Farm in Spring Grove grew to be the ‘world’s largest’ corn maze
Sep 15, 2024 1:31 am - The corn maze at Richardson Farm in Spring Grove, a 28-acre labyrinth with annual themes, has grown significantly since it started 24 years ago.