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Read more about the article Long-time housing for migrant farmworkers closes

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Nightingale Camp, a former hospital on the decomissioned Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul, Illinois, sits abandoned. It was once the largest migrant housing camp in the state.

Long-time housing for migrant farmworkers closes

Post author:Anna Casey / Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting
Post published:October 6, 2017
Post category:Agriculture

Since 2001, the former hospital on Nightingale Court in Rantoul, Ilinois housed as many as 450 migrant farmworkers and their families to work in the fields in central Illinois. But this year, its owner – Unique Storage Inc. – did not submit a migrant labor camp application for the site, known as Nightingale, according to the state public health department. Instead, housing for the farmworkers was moved elsewhere.

Read more about the article Damage from dicamba spurs confusion, questions

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Soybeans in a field in rural McLean County on August 7.

Damage from dicamba spurs confusion, questions

Post author:Johnathan Hettinger
Post published:September 26, 2017
Post category:Agriculture Environment

In 2016, Monsanto released its dicamba-resistant soybeans in the company’s largest ever rollout of a new biotechnology. But its accompanying herbicide – XtendiMaxTM herbicide with VaporGripTM Technology – was not approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency until several months later, leading some farmers to use other versions of the herbicide on their soybeans.

High commodity prices, seed corn companies spur rise in irrigation in Illinois

Post author:Johnathan Hettinger
Post published:July 7, 2017
Post category:Agriculture

High commodity prices, seed corn companies spur rise in irrigation in Illinois

Read more about the article With herbicide-resistant crops, farms balance immediate rewards and future risks

Darrell Hoemann

Jenny Mennenga with soybean seeds from last year at her family farm near LeRoy on Monday, January 26, 2015.

With herbicide-resistant crops, farms balance immediate rewards and future risks

Post author:Robert Holly / For CU-CitizenAccess
Post published:February 17, 2015
Post category:Agriculture

Jenny Mennenga farms corn and soybean with her husband between Le Roy and Farmer City in central Illinois. This past harvest brought Mennenga’s farm record corn production, though soybean yields were just “fairly average.”