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(The Center Square) – It was a banner year for soybean farmers in Illinois. According to the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA ...
He even planted soybeans in one of his fields for a second straight year, breaking the traditional soy-corn-soy rotation for field management. He and many other farmers are hoping to just minimize ...
Most of the state of Illinois lies outside the Chicago metropolitan area and inside the North American Corn Belt. [12] Corn, soybeans, and other large-field crops are grown extensively. These crops and their products account for much of the state's economic output outside Chicago. Much of the field crop is remanufactured into feed for hogs and ...
A total of 45 counties are typically considered to be within Central Illinois, with a population of 1,874,635 as of the 2020 U.S. Census. Major cities include Peoria, Springfield (the state capital), Decatur, Quincy, Champaign–Urbana, Bloomington–Normal, Galesburg, and Danville. [1]
The western section (west of the Illinois River) was originally part of the Military Tract of 1812 and forms the distinctive western bulge of the state. Central Illinois is characterized by small towns and mid-sized cities. Agriculture, particularly corn and soybeans, figures prominently. Major cities include Peoria, and Springfield (the state ...
(The Center Square) – Illinois farming was in the spotlight at a recent U.S. House Committee on Agriculture hearing in Washington D.C. Many issues affecting the farming sector were touched on ...
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A movement in a myriad of rural counties across deep blue states such as Illinois and California to split off and form new states appears to be gaining some steam in the wake of the Nov. 5 election.