Direct market farmers, homesteaders, land-owners, hobby farms, and backyard growers can learn practices to improve production and increase profit.
Specialty Crops Videos
Mushroom Production on Small Farms
Growing Shiitake Mushrooms
On this week’s Good Growing podcast we talk with Illinois Extension local foods educator Nick Frillman about growing gourmet shiitake mushrooms in your own backyard. Nick shows us the tools and methods used to turn fresh cut logs of white oak and sugar maple into inoculated “bolts” that will...
Expanding Crop Rotation Options and the Diverse Corn Belt Project
A more diverse Corn Belt starts with wider options for crop rotations.
Illinois and Indiana's farmers have the current corn and soybean rotation built into their operation, so what is holding them back from diversifying the crop selections?
The ...