The 2023-24 school year has been an exciting one for the Independence FFA Chapter. During the summer, members harvested produce from the garden and sold produce at the Farmer’s Market
Indiana Farm Bureau honored its Young Farmers & Ag Professionals at the INFB State Convention in Fort Wayne. The event’s theme was “Grow: Planting Seeds for Our Future.”
Strip tilling is a conservation tillage practice that combines the benefits of no-till and full-width tillage. In strip tilling, narrow strips of soil are tilled to prepare for planting, while
Agronomists covering a broad area of the Corn Belt gave their insights on crop conditions, nitrogen applications and other topics recently at Beck’s Central Illinois Field Show.