U.S. legislators trying to remove hemp off Controlled Substances
The production of industrial hemp took another step toward reality this month with the introduction of legislation into the U.S. House that would remove hemp from the Controlled Substances list.
Iowa junior college is first to adopt 100 percent no-till cover crops
As the nation’s only junior college to have a dairy robotics barn and specialized two-year degree program in that area of dairy science, Northeast Iowa Community College in Calmar is also becoming the first to adopt 100 percent no-till cover crop practices on all of the cropland it uses to feed its 120-head dairy herd.
Craft distilling catching on through Illinois association
Before Prohibition, one of Illinois’ largest consumers of corn were whiskey distilleries. Hundreds of the alcohol manufacturers, including 73 distilleries in Peoria alone, were pouring thousands of gallons and tax dollars statewide.
Bumblebee service touted to take one uncertainty out of growing
The old days of depending only on natural pollination is no more; now there are other options through imported pollinators, John P. Wolf of Koppert Biological Systems recently explained.
