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How do you like your rice? Sticky, fluffy, brown, or white?

When deciding how much nitrogen fertilizer to apply, farmers have options.

Join us on Tuesday, November 30 from 4:30–6:00 p.m. to learn about how advanced agricultural practices could turn a carbon source into a sink, alleviating causes and impacts of climate change.

This year’s Fightin’ Texas Aggie Corn Maze was anticipated to be the most challenging yet.

URBANA, Ill. — Some may view crops and solar panels as competitors for prime real estate. A 4-year, $10 million dollar grant awarded to University of Illinois' Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment will design "agrivoltaic" systems that allow for both crops and solar panels to share land space.

Maintaining crop genetic diversity needs the involvement of farming communities, and a system for sharing the benefits with them

New research from the University of Illinois shows sweet corn, when planted at high densities, has steadily increased in yield since the 1930s.


‘Sweet corn yield gain over last 80 years still leaves room for advances’

A Cornell-led national network of scientists and farmers is developing new varieties of cover crops that are better adapted to local regions and

Cementing waterhemp’s reputation as a hard-to-kill weed in corn and soybean production systems, University of Illinois researchers have now documented