Articles filed under Agriculture
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Producing profits: MCC to offer farm-business workshops in OctoberOct 15, 2021 9:49 AM - McHenry County College announces an exciting series of events for the food and farming community this October.
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New program aims to interest Black youth in agriculture
Sep 13, 2021 6:00 AM - The "Young Black Agri-preneurs of Kane County" program is a collaborative effort between The Just Food Initiative of the Fox Valley, a nonprofit organization based in Batavia, and the African American Men of Unity, a nonprofit group based in Aurora. It aims to interest and train future Black farmers for Kane County. -
Farmers restore native grasslands as groundwater disappears
Sep 11, 2021 4:51 PM - For decades, the Texas Panhandle was green with cotton, corn and wheat. Wells drew a thousand gallons a minute from the seemingly bottomless Ogallala aquifer, allowing farmers to thrive despite frequent dry spells and summer heat. But now farmers face a difficult reckoning. -
McHenry County College adds new solar array to power campus high tunnel
Aug 24, 2021 2:56 PM - McHenry County College in Crystal Lake has incorporated a solar array that will power one of the high tunnels that students use to grow a variety of crops year-round. -
Lawmakers celebrate Illinois' role in distribution of penicillin
Aug 19, 2021 11:02 AM - Lawmakers gathered Tuesday at the University of Illinois Springfield to designate a new state microbe and add agriculture sciences to the list of courses that fulfill admissions requirements at state universities. -
Illinois State Fair to reopen with new attractions, indoor mask mandate
Aug 6, 2021 4:32 PM - After a one-year interruption last year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Illinois State Fair in Springfield is set to reopen Thursday with some new attractions and new safety requirements. -
MCC's new agriculture program has successful first year
Aug 6, 2021 2:52 PM - McHenry County College is getting ready to welcome a new crop of Entrepreneurial Agriculture students this fall. The program, which trained its first group of students last year, is designed to prepare both degree-seeking students and food and farm innovators for a successful and rewarding future in the regional food economy. -
Financing organic farmers: opportunity intertwined with a challenge
Jul 13, 2021 1:10 PM - The goals that Biden's plan highlights -- carbon sequestration through planting cover crops, increasing farm productivity and resilience, and reducing emissions -- are core tenets of regenerative agriculture, a more natural way of farming that we at Iroquois Valley Farmland REIT, a nationally recognized Certified B Corp, are well familiar with. -
TLC hosts free virtual Learning Circle for Women Farmland Owners April 28
Apr 9, 2021 5:23 PM - Women who own farmland are invited to a free virtual "Learning Circle," hosted by The Land Conservancy of McHenry County. -
Author shares story of saving family farm during COD virtual event
Apr 5, 2021 6:00 AM - Sarah Frey, author of "The Growing Season: How I Saved an American Farm -- and Built a New Life," will appear in a virtual event April 20 sponsored by College of DuPage and the Daily Herald.
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