Farmland

USDA reported 7% of corn was harvested across Illinois compared to 5% at the same time in 2023.

Several hundred people Tuesday made it very clear they oppose using property taxes to help pay some of the costs of transforming 861 acres of farmland near Sugar Grove into warehouses, offices, stores and housing.

Switzerland-based Syngenta Seeds’ new 100,000-square foot facility on 88 acres in Malta is on a mission to develop crops that are more resistant to disease, formidable weather or fungus for northern Illinois farmers.

Will County barns ‘have deep character and tell a story’