Since 1974, the United Nations has hosted World Environment Day annually on June 5 — the organization’s most important day to inspire action and awareness for the protection of our environment. Click here for more information. 

George Holsapple and his son Thad, use cover crops on their own acres, raise them for seed and sell them under their Claybrook Acres brand. They use the Solvita Volumetric Aggregate Stability Test (VAST) to validate the impact of diverse cover crops they recommend to customers. Read more here!

Every year the Illinois Department of Agriculture (IDOA) receives approximately 72 complaints of crop damage due to pesticide drift. Read about how to properly handle tough situations from the University of Illinois extension. 

While you might think of hula hoops as a game for children they’ve found a new use—helping farmers calculate soybean populations. Check out this little trick to help calculate your soybean population. 

The harvest of a hybrid corn plant won’t produce seed genetically identical to the parent plant. Read more here!