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The highest temperature recorded in Illinois was 117 °F (47.2 °C), recorded on July 14, 1954, at East St. Louis, while the lowest temperature was −38 °F (−38.9 °C), recorded on January 31, 2019, at Mount Carroll. Illinois averages around 50 days of thunderstorm activity a year which put it somewhat above average for number of ...
Farm Year Installed capacity (MW) County [14] Note Mendota Hills: 2003/2019: 51.66/76: Lee Turbines replaced in 2019 Crescent Ridge 2005: 54.45: Bureau Pike County 2005 1.65 Pike GSG 2007: 80: Lee/LaSalle Camp Grove: 2007: 150: Marshall/Stark Twin Groves I-II 2007-2008: 396: McLean AgriWind 2008: 8.4: Bureau Grand Ridge I-IV 2008-2009: 210 ...
The US is the world's largest producer of corn. [8] According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the average U.S. yield for corn was 177 bushels per acre, up 3.3 percent over 2020 and a record high, with 16 states posting state records in output, and Iowa reporting a record of 205 bushels of corn per acre.
Higher global food prices between 2006 and 2008, primarily caused by an increasing amount arable land used for growing biofuels and the growing economies in China and elsewhere causing an increase in demand for meat products (which are less efficient than plants in terms of land use), caused the percentage of incomes used for food to increase ...
With thousands of ag-related jobs already cut, Iowans wonder how deep downturn will go. 'For a lot of folks, with these prices today, they're in the red.'
The soil of the land in and around Reddick consists of a heavy black loam with a clay sub-soil suitable for the growing of corn, oats, clover, and timothy hay. In 1865, farmland could be purchased for $2.00 an acre; by 1904, farm land was worth $110.00 to $200.00 per acre. [5]
Inflated prices for land are stopping the government from hitting its targets in building new social housing, according to a study. Since the 1960s, local authorities buying up land under ...
A smaller area of land located north of the park area was put to use for the Illinois 4-H Memorial Camp and its related recreational programs. Finally, the third and largest area composing 3,775 acres of land in eight different farms all north of the Sangamon river was farmed by tenants and the income used to support the rest of the park. [10]