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(The Center Square) – A fourth-generation Illinois farmer calls the recent warm, dry winter a double-edged sword, a phenomenon that boosted productivity but left the groundwater at worrisome low levels.

(The Center Square) – A fourth-generation Illinois farmer calls the recent warm, dry winter a double-edged sword, a phenomenon that boosted productivity but left the groundwater at worrisome low levels. Chris Otten, who...

A fourth-generation Illinois farmer calls the recent warm, dry winter a double-edged sword, a phenomenon that boosted productivity but left the groundwater at worrisome low levels.

If you're not eating meat during Lent, but you're getting tired of fried fish, there's another less local option.

Dixmoor is still battling a water main break crisis after two more were reported on Saturday.

Exports of farm goods haven’t tanked, but imports have gone up. The strong dollar is part of the equation.

For the third time in five years, the United States’ trade in agriculture will run a deficit — when a country imports more than it exports. Through November…

Jason Imel, a deck hand with Cargill, Inc., blows excess soybeans off the top of a river b

“There’s a lot of events that are coalescing here,” one economic said.

A longtime New Orleans area caterer opens pop up restaurant serving lobster rolls, seafood charcuterie in the Garden District.