We have a number of important deadlines approaching for most of us in farming. Our deadline for choosing our risk management or crop insurance plans is on March 15. By the end of March, we have to decide whether to reallocate our farms’ program base acres; whether to update our program crop yields...

On November 25, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency released for public comment the long awaited “Illinois Nutrient Loss Reduction Strategy”. With its release, Illinois joins nine other states in the Mississippi River basin that are developing nutrient reduction loss strategies in an...

No, this is not a new country-western dance. It is the process you should use for signing up for the new 2014 Farm Bill, otherwise known as "The Agricultural Act of 2014".  You will be making decisions that will affect the 2014 through 2018 crop years. Yes, we will be signing up in...