Carson Robinson, 19, of Sidney was crowned Sunday afternoon by the 2018 queen, Gracyn Allen, at The City Center in Champaign.
The central Illinois scene is filled with local producers looking to connect their communities more closely with the food they consume.
Though the Champaign County village's population clocks in under 2,000, gate receipts over the five days of this year's event were expected to hit around 8,500, with people from all over the area flocking to the fairgrounds for carnival rides, a country music concert, a tractor pull, a donkey race and a demolition derby, among other attractions.
It took four years of work from volunteers to restore the schoolhouse, which will be among the featured attractions at the I&I Antique Tractor and Gas Engine Club’s four-day show.
Was any corn in the area really 'knee-high by the Fourth of July'?
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Carson Robinson, 19, of Sidney was crowned Sunday afternoon by the 2018 queen, Gracyn Allen, at The City Center in Champaign.
The central Illinois scene is filled with local producers looking to connect their communities more closely with the food they consume.
Though the Champaign County village's population clocks in under 2,000, gate receipts over the five days of this year's event were expected to hit around 8,500, with people from all over the area flocking to the fairgrounds for carnival rides, a country music concert, a tractor pull, a donkey race and a demolition derby, among other attractions.
It took four years of work from volunteers to restore the schoolhouse, which will be among the featured attractions at the I&I Antique Tractor and Gas Engine Club’s four-day show.
Was any corn in the area really 'knee-high by the Fourth of July'?
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This fall, the community college will offer the first degree program in the U.S. for custom applicators — those who spraypesticides and fertilizers on fields — driven by industry feedback and involvement.
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It will begin selling nuggets made from pea protein at grocery stores this summer. A blended burger made from beef and pea protein will follow this fall. Both will be sold under a new brand, Raised and Rooted.
'Imagine doing a wire transfer for $10,000 or $20,000 with somebody in another state that you've never met for something that was, six months ago, a felony,' Trent Lawrence said about his recent purchase of seeds from Colorado and Oregon.
Phoenix Botanical in Champaign says it has sufficient growing and manufacturing capacity, but it needs more workers to handle business expected after recreational pot use becames legal on Jan. 1.
Local farmers have rushed to plant in the small pockets of dry weather available this spring.
The $16 billion aid package announced last month follows a $12 billion bailout last year that based payments on how many bushels farmers grow, with different rates for different crops.
Work on the state-of-the-art structure, which is expected to produce 8,000 tons of animal feed annually, is expected to wrap up by September 2020.
In this family-friendly, farmer-focused town, "everyone has their own style of living," residents say.
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'We're excited about the Warren Farm funding local 4-H activities, and we want people to know about that. So it's a bit of a gratitude and awareness trek out to see what's happening on these farms,' said Dr. Kim Kidwell, dean of the UI College of ACES.
