Jeannine Otto

While U.S. and Illinois hog numbers remain high, there are indications that those numbers may start to come down, yielding some relief for producers haunted by red ink.

When Brent Massingill started his career in law enforcement, the training on officer safety during a traffic stop, then as now, focused on the plethora of unknowns that troopers face.

Eric Miller grows more than corn, full-season and double-crop soybeans and wheat on his Piatt County farm.

It will be 700 fenceposts to the Logan County Fair on Saturday, Aug. 3, as the popular country group Diamond Rio takes the stage at the fairgrounds in Lincoln in central Illinois.

When the Lee County Fair board of directors made a decision, after their 2021 fair, to discontinue having a carnival on the midway, they took a leap of faith.

Monsters and motorsports will dominate the midway — and the track — for the 2024 Will County Fair.

When it comes to wind in the spring in the Midwest, it’s complicated.

For Luke Schneider, military veteran, former firefighter and founder of Fire Department Coffee, the mission of his coffee company goes deeper than just a great cup of joe.

The Badd Axe Ladies firefighter training program is opening up new career options for young women.

Kyle Kellen doesn’t fly around Lee County in a traffic helicopter, but even so, when he’s off duty and out in public, he’s most likely to be recognized as the road-report deputy.

Whether it’s prescribing antibiotics for an infection, drugs to ease pain after surgical procedures, lifesaving insulin for diabetes or being a health-care provider for a rural community, rural pharmacists have always filled a unique role in the medical community.

If it sounds like the Dixon Police Department was taking summertime fun seriously, that is because they were. And they had the viral social media posts to show for it.

For Doug McKalip, the chief agricultural negotiator in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, removing barriers to and boosting U.S. agricultural exports and trade is a work in progress.

Bridges throughout Illinois are on the top of the priority list for a statewide infrastructure funding program.

With a September deadline, and a congressional summer vacation on the calendar, the clock is ticking on a new five-year farm bill.

Bridges, roads and sidewalks throughout rural Indiana will be getting repairs and upgrades, thanks to $155.6 million in federal funds.

The Burgener family, of Moweaqua, was named the Illinois Pork Producers Association 2024 Family of the Year.

Early spells of warm weather mean that truckers who use rural roads in Illinois had an added challenge.

The rules are the rules, but the federal rulemaking process can be confusing for those who are most impacted by the final results of that process.

Is there a government conspiracy afoot to deprive farmers of receiving their full benefits from crop insurance? Not at all, according to an economist.