This morning on Springfield's Morning News: -Rick Pearson on the Madigan trial and JB Pritzker's future plans -Holly Spangler on chaos at the Illinois Farm Bureau 📻92.7 FM or listen online at wmay.com/player

The saga continues…

Finally got around to this past year's phantom yield loss data. Here are the last two years of results, same 9 hybrids tested in both years. Yield loss is real, but it is not kernel respiration on the plant. It is either harvest loss or yield monitor calibration variation.

Is it a bad sign if the weather is the most certain part of your agricultural future? Here's what Project 2025 has to say about agriculture. farmprogress.com/farm-policy/ri…

That’s my boy! Homegrown Illinois farm kid

Pro-tip for fellow rural homeowners: do not under any circumstance buy an LG refrigerator LG Electronics. Our 4yo fridge died April 13. Whew - it’s under warranty! Called immediately. Nothing but broken promises+no service for past 9 biz days. Except for the fridge. It’s still broken.

The 2025 #Illinois #Farmland #Values and Lease Trends report shows a shift toward softening land values and cash rents. farmdoc daily's Bruce Sherrick said that most report respondents expect prices to either remain the same or decrease in 2025. farmprogress.com/farm-business/…

“If my crop looks like crap, I think I’ve failed,” Kelly Robertson says. “We’re connected to the land, to the crop. We’re emotionally invested in this, even more than we’re financially invested in it.” farmprogress.com/crops/southern…

One of the finest humans I’ve ever had the pleasure of knowing - 100% in it for farmers

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Farmers need to make money. But they need to do it by selling crops — not by cashing another government check. History may not repeat, but it sure does rhyme. And we know all the verses of the 1980s. farmprogress.com/farm-policy/fa…

How bad is the economic outlook for rural Illinois? Prairie Farmer writer Holly Spangler describes it as a "four alarm fire": omny.fm/shows/pm-sprin…

There is a lot of bad things in ag right now, but there is also some great things. Tomorrow we are so blessed to have 10 friends and neighbors coming together to harvest our corn crop. 10 families giving up a beautiful fall day of their own harvest, to help myself and my mom out

Coming up with Patrick Pfingsten from 3-6p: -3:38p: Holly Spangler on a major shakeup at the Illinois Farm Bureau -4:10p: Bill Enyart, Fmr. Congressman and fmr. Adj. General of the IL National Guard -5:30p: Illinois Men's Basketball pregame 🎧97.7 FM, 970 AM, or online at wmay.com

All the behind-the-scenes on the big shakeup at Illinois Farm Bureau: farmprogress.com/farm-business/…