Food & Farming
WCBU's reporting on agriculture and food issues in central Illinois.
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Disruptions to the worldwide flow of grain and oilseed commodities, fertilizers and energy supplies resulting from the Russian siege of Ukraine may continue to contribute to an increase in food, fuel and fiber prices for a long time to come.
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Encouraging “purposeful collisions'' between central Illinois’ leading agriculture technology entrepreneurs and community developers was the purpose behind Morton’s first AgTech Connect session.
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Today on Food Trek, host Tory Dahlhoff gives us the first of a two-part episode that dives into the potential of building a local food system in Central Illinois and reviews a bit of the history of why, in a place with such great soil, a strong local food system has yet to take hold.
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The month of December is here, and that means many households are in search of one, prominent item to welcome in the holiday season: the perfect Christmas tree.
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The three-day Greater Peoria Farm Show, with free admission, opened Tuesday, celebrating its 40th anniversary at the Civic Center after COVID-19 canceled last year's show.
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A couple months ago, agriculture experts were predicting a record high corn harvest.But that's no longer the case.
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Evan Barry started his organic vegetable farm in East Peoria in 2017. Since then, he’s managed to sell his produce at the Peoria Riverfront Market every year.
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The newly formed Central Illinois FarmFED Co-op in Logan County met its $100,000 initial fundraising goal in just one month.
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Kent Hodel found out in June that he was among the three people chosen as recipients of Prairie Farmer magazine’s Master Farmer awards for 2021.
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A coalition of central Illinois farmers is starting a new processing cooperative in hopes of reaping the rewards by expanding its customer base and selling season.
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The USDA’s COMET-Farm tool is increasingly useful to farms choosing to implement regenerative practices such as planting perennials and cover crops, and reducing tillage, to better verify their on-farm carbon capture to sell credits on the emerging carbon marketplace.
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The monumental task of mitigating climate change and transforming agricultural practices at a scale is anything but simple. Getting a carbon market to a stable and verifiable condition is just one of the many challenges.
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