Agriculture

Whiteside County Soil and Water Conservation District will sponsor a cover crop workshop on Tuesday, July 17, 2018, led by Dean Oswald.  It will be held at the farm of Bill Holesinger on Frog Pond Road, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.  The workshop will be limited to 50 participants, so

There have been several food trends emerging over the past few years, and one of the biggest is the “Farm-to-Fork” movement.  People are getting closer to the source of their food and knowing their producer and their production methods. To help people connect directly with growers and producers in the

Illinois cattlemen and cattle women will have the opportunity to hear from several experts at the 2018 Illinois Cattle Feeders Meeting, planned for Friday, March 9, 2018, at Sauk Valley Community College, IL Route 2, south of Dixon, IL. The meeting will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

The Sawmill Museum will be hosting a winter speaker series titled “How Clinton Has Built and Fed the World.” The series will take place at the museum, located at 2231 Grant Street in Clinton, IA, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., on Thursdays from January 25, to March 22, 2018. The

Soil and water interactions will be the focus of a Soil and Water Management Webinar, sponsored by University of Illinois Extension on Saturday, February 20, 2018. The workshop will be held at the Lee County Extension Office in Amboy, IL. Presentations will be delivered via PowerPoint and web conferencing from 9:00 a.m.

The public is invited to learn about the Maximum Farming System, on Thursday, September 7, 2017, at 16640 Sand Road, Fulton, IL, from 3:00 to 7:00 p.m.  Dinner is provided.  Call Doug Holesinger at 563-559-0248 to reserve a place. Ag Spectrum has invested in research and studied the science of

Prairie Rivers Network (PRN) calls on our Illinois-based food and agriculture companies to help the State reduce agricultural runoff and soil loss, which contribute to the Gulf of Mexico dead zone.  On Wednesday, August 2, 2017, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that this year’s Gulf of Mexico

The 2017 Illinois First Detector Workshop on invasive plants, diseases, and insects will be offered at eight Illinois sites in 2017. In its fifth year, the workshop is being offered through University of Illinois Extension and coordinated in conjunction with the Illinois Natural History Survey’s Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey (CAPS);

Soil fertility, crop production practices, and environmental stewardship will be the foci of a Tuesday, February 28, 2017, Soil Fertility Seminar. The program, sponsored by University of Illinois Extension, will be held at the Whiteside Extension Office in Sterling, IL. From 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., campus-based researchers will deliver