Lights, Camera, Agriculture: Inside the AgRally 2025 Broadcast
Reporting live from Fort Worth, Texas, University of Illinois agricultural communications students Jennie Abbott and Taylor Talbert shared updates on the James F.
Illinois research shows benefits of prairie grass for sustainable aviation fuel
Switchgrass has gripped Midwestern soils for millions of years, but soon, the earthbound prairie grass could fly.
New approach makes AI adaptable for computer vision in crop breeding
Scientists developed a machine-learning tool that can teach itself, with minimal external guidance, to differentiate between aerial images of flowering and nonflowering grasses — an advance that will greatly increase the pace of agricultural field research, they say. The work was conducted using images of thousands of varieties of Miscanthus grasses, each of which has its own flowering traits and timing.
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Lights, Camera, Agriculture: Inside the AgRally 2025 Broadcast
Reporting live from Fort Worth, Texas, University of Illinois agricultural communications students Jennie Abbott and Taylor Talbert shared updates on the James F.
Illinois Agriculture Legislative Day unites diverse stakeholders to advocate for state's largest industry
"Agriculture unites us all" was the resounding message as representatives from University of Illinois Extension, the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, and nearly 50 diverse agriculture organizations converged on the state Capitol for the 55th annual Illinois Agriculture Legislative Day.
Illinois leads most rigorous agricultural greenhouse gas emissions study to date
Farmers apply nitrogen fertilizers to crops to boost yields, feeding more people and livestock. But when there’s more fertilizer than the crop can take up, some of the excess can be converted into gaseous forms, including nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas that traps nearly 300 times as much heat in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide. About 70% of human-caused nitrous oxide comes from agricultural soils, so it’s vital to find ways to curb those emissions.
ABE junior awarded Truman Scholarship
Hannah Sundararajan, a junior at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, was awarded a $30,000 Truman Scholarship. Sundararajan is one of 54 Truman Scholars selected from a pool of 743 nominees from colleges and universities across the country.
Sundararajan, from New Berlin, Wisconsin, and a graduate of New Berlin High School, was selected by the Truman Foundation based on her academic success and leadership accomplishments, as well as her likelihood of becoming a public service leader.
What effect will tariffs have on consumers, farmers?
Jonathan W. Coppess, associate professor in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, spoke with Illinois News Bureau business and law editor Phil Ciciora about the potential effects of tariffs.
What are tariffs likely to mean to the average U.S. household, and when will consumers start to notice the effects?
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Top 5 reasons to say yes
It’s about that time to start seriously considering where the next chapter in your academic journey is going to be! Being a soon-to-be graduate from the U. of I., I can tell you the next four years will take you places you can’t even imagine. The only bad thing is how fast they go by! In my opinion, the decision to come to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign should be an easy one, but in the case that you aren’t sure if you are going to accept your offer or not, let me tell you why it should be a no-brainer.