Just about everybody enjoys a delicious roast turkey dinner for Thanksgiving with all the traditional trimmings. However, cooks usually overestimate the size of the turkey that will be needed and begin trying to figure out ways to use the leftovers.

Educational seminars will be a new addition to the long-running Greater Peoria Farm Show (GPFS), scheduled for Dec. 2-4 at the Peoria Civic Center.

Leading off the seminars for the 33rd GPFS will be Iowa State University professor of ag meteorology S. Elwynn Taylor. He has notched a distinguished career spanning more than four decades with the university and extension, racking up memberships in honorary and professional societies, awards and honors while publishing reams of technical guides and extension education publications and abstracts.

Seed hybrid behemoth Syngenta Corp. is facing a growing number of federal class-action lawsuits against its genetically modified (GMO) MIR 162 seed Agrisure Viptera that American corn farmers say was released into the U.S. market without import approval from China.

“Syngenta must be held accountable for