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Chicago trumpeter and composer Orbert Davis, a Momence native, hosted and performed Saturday during the return of the Jazz and Family Festival at Island Park.

Farmers traditionally have gone gangbusters growing corn. Soybeans? Well, not so much. Cory Atley has harvested bumper corn yields in recent years. In fact, he’s won the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) corn yield contest for Ohio each of the past four years. He applies the strategy behind his corn yields – such as 2020’s conventional non-irrigated 320 bushels per acre – to soybeans.  It’s not easy. “Growing 100-bushel [per acre] soybeans is a lot harder than growing 300...