2024 CONSERVATION PRACTICE ADOPTION MOTIVATIONS SURVEY
(SPRINGFIELD) The USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) and the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) are teaming up to conduct the 2024 Conservation Practice Adoption Motivations Survey (CPAMS). The 43,000 […]
ILLINOIS STATE NEWS BRIEF (07/19/2024)
(SPRINGFIELD) The Illinois Department of Employment Security announced that unemployment increased to 5 percent. The May revised unemployment rate was 4.9 percent. The national unemployment rate was 4.1 percent in […]
FRIDAY WEATHER DISCUSSION
(OLNEY/NEWTON) Our downstate area dry and pleasant weather pattern continues today with more sunshine and a slight warm up each day tomorrow and Sunday. Then our next chance of rain […]
RFD-TV FEATURING THE SINGING BLACKSMITH OF WEST SALEM TODAY AND SATURDAY
(WEST SALEM) Folks are encouraged to tune into RFD-TV this Tuesday afternoon and later this weekend for a special Rural Heritage program featuring our friend, The Singing Blacksmith, Bryan Dale […]
OLNEY TIGERSHARKS RESULTS FROM THE WEEKEND
(OLNEY) In Summer Swimming from Saturday – The Olney Tigersharks won the Carmi Invitational Swim Meet, the other teams included Carmi, Fairfield, McLeansboro, and Mt. Carmel. GIRLS There were four […]
RICHLAND COUNTY RAINFALL REPORT FOR THIS WEEK
(OLNEY) In this week’s Richland County Farm Bureau rainfall report for the past week, with the reporting period ending at 8:00 yesterday (Monday) morning, the county’s highest total of rain […]
JASPER COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD JULY MEETING RECAP (07/16/2024)
(NEWTON) The Jasper County School Board of Education met for its regular monthly meeting in Newton last night. The Board : approved the payment of all bills as presented : […]
YESTERDAY’S USDA ILLINOIS CROP PROGRESS REPORT
(SPRINGFIELD) In yesterday’s USDA Illinois Crop Progress Report, there were 4.0 days suitable for fieldwork on average last week around the state. Illinois’ average temperature was 75.5 degrees last week, […]
ILLINOIS STATE NEWS BRIEF (07/16/2024)
(CHAMPAIGN) With a rare, double emergence of cidada broods in Illinois now completed, researchers are now looking at the damage caused by the phenomenon. Researchers at the University of Illinois […]
TUESDAY WEATHER DISCUSSION (07/16/2024)
(OLNEY/NEWTON) As a line of showers and thunderstorms dropped southeastward into our downstate area this morning, we’ll somewhat dry out by later today before a second round of rain chances […]