In the shadow of corn, soybeans and climate change, a handful of farmers are building a supply chain for local produce in Illinois.

Deserts, overgrazed land and areas experiencing drought are especially prone to dust storms. Soils across central Illinois are exceptionally ... dust from parched farmland. A dust storm generated ...

(WAND) - Severe storms and strong winds moved through central Illinois on Thursday. The National Weather Service reported heavy damages across the area. As storm damage reports come in from ...

On a swath of land about three-and-a-half ... both Sangamon and Morgan counties in central Illinois. Swift Current Energy, which owns the solar farm, said the nearly 600 megawatt power plant ...

This is according to land value surveys conducted in Missouri, Iowa and Illinois. Luke Worrell is the ... nine Iowa crop reporting districts showed lower farmland values than the year before. The ...

“There’s opportunities everywhere, not to mention vast amounts of land.” Angela Tovar ... 593-megawatt solar farm in central Illinois as part of the same five-year, $422 million agreement.

If “downstate” is what comes to mind when thinking of Central Illinois — where, true, the land is so flat that as you’re making your way from town to town, you might notice the road up ...

Koss Family Farms has been supplying Central Illinois with lettuce and other greens ... cruise – as little as half the price of life on land The #1 fast food chain in the US isn't McDonald ...

The Grain Belt Express, or GBX, is owned by Chicago-based Invenergy and is meant to carry renewable electricity generated by wind farms. It would run through parts of Kansas, Missouri and Illinois ...

The Illinois Society of Professional Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers noted a couple sales in Central Illinois last year involved land with wind turbines included. Wind and solar raise the per acre ...

A new study from Illinois Farm Business Farm Management (FBFM ... “In Northern Illinois, on average 66% of a farmer’s ground is cash rented versus when you look at central Illinois, it’s only about 48 ...