Farmers plant or preserve riparian buffers for various reasons, such as improving water quality, controlling erosion, or ...

Growing fruit on trees is a rewarding experience, but it comes with challenges. From pests and disease to climate stress or ...

The advent of smartphones, social media platforms, streaming video sites, and numerous other technological advancements has ...

As people age, they face various challenges affecting their cognitive abilities, social participation, and overall health.

Join Food Pantry Network -Heart of Illinois (HOI) in giving back this holiday season through the 12 Days of Giving!

In times of uncertainty, protecting your livelihood and assets is essential. Each farm and farm family has a unique experience and specific needs ...

Plants have been used as medicine for thousands of years by cultures around the world. Many of these plants have been studied scientifically for their actions ...

Do you look for humor in your everyday life? Humor can be good for you as it has physical and psychological benefits. This ...

A sad fact of life is that sometimes a tree must be cut down. Some trees are beset by invasive insects or disease, others may be mangled by storms, and some die from environmental stress or old age.

After a wet spring and early summer, corn and soybean fields across central Illinois are entering critical reproductive stages—and so is the risk of crop disease. While the plants may look healthy ...

We’re nearing that time of year when we’ll start to get warnings about the potential for a frost or freeze taking place. Is there really a difference between the two? Frosts can occur even when a ...

Like almost everything else with climate change, the impacts are mostly bad news. Increasing drought severity is already driving pollinator declines in the southwest, and secondary climate change ...