University of Illinois Extension offices will be closed December 24 - January 1 for holiday break. Offices will return to regular business hours on January 2. We wish you a safe and happy holiday ...

University of Illinois Extension offices will be closed December 24 - January 1 for holiday break. Offices will return to regular business hours on January 2. We ...

Across the state, University of Illinois Extension staff link their communities with resources they need to thrive by turning ...

Gardening enthusiasts and beginners alike are invited to the sixteenth-annual Spring Into Gardening Conference. This year's ...

Food insecurity continues to be a major issue in the United States, and the recent lapse in SNAP benefits has worsened struggles for many families ...

Whether moving grain to market, delivering fertilizer, or shipping food products nationally and internationally, freight railroads are essential to American agriculture. With tracks spanning coast to ...

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 ...

Overgrazing is the failure to match animal grazing to forage growth and production. Overgrazing occurs when animals are allowed to continuously harvest a plant without allowing the plant to feed ...

As the days get shorter and the temperatures get cooler, many species of insects will search for places to spend the winter. Depending on the insect, they may seek out a variety of locations, such as ...

During this first week of October, many of the plants blooming in our landscape are mums, asters, goldenrods, sedums, and ornamental grasses. But what if your lilac is blooming? A lilac blooming in ...

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 ...