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3 weeks ago | 
freeburgtribune.com | Phyllis Coulter
By PHYLLIS COULTER FarmWeek An Illinois man who credits a good rehab program and working with horses for saving his life now helps others struggling with substance and alcohol addiction. “In 2016, I came to the end of a road where my life was no longer sustainable in any way, due to severe alcoholism,” Jim O’Connor said.
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3 weeks ago | 
rivercountynews.com | Phyllis Coulter
If you’re a current subscriber, log in below. If you would like to subscribe, please click the subscribe tab above. Username Password Lost your password? Please enter your email and we will send you a password reset link. Email ← Back By PHYLLIS COULTER FarmWeek An Illinois man who credits a good rehab program and working with horses for saving his life now helps others struggling with substance and alcohol addiction.
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1 month ago | 
farmweeknow.com | Phyllis Coulter |Phyllis Coulter FarmWeek
Research projects aren’t like sitcoms where a problem can be solved in a 30-minute show. That’s among the lessons that Olympia High School students are learning in rural Stanford, as they develop their own popcorn hybrid. Before things got popping on the project, Olympia High School science and agriculture teacher Chris Embry Mohr invited Tony Studer, a University of Illinois crop scientist, to visit her classroom in McLean County to teach students about his research on popcorn.
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1 month ago | 
farmweeknow.com | Phyllis Coulter |Phyllis Coulter FarmWeek
The first Rural Mental Health Summit in 2023 was such a success that a second one is set for May in Bloomington. It recognizes that “there’s a lot of current and future uncertainties,” said Lynn Weis, Farm Family Resource Initiative educator of what farm and rural families are facing today.
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1 month ago | 
farmweeknow.com | Phyllis Coulter |Phyllis Coulter FarmWeek
Teachers across the state will get rolling on the Illinois Agriculture in the Classroom’s (IAITC) transportation theme “Roads Rivers and Rails” at IAITC Summer Ag Institute workshops. The event prepares teachers to take their students on a similar learning journey in 2026. Key to the theme will be “Celebrating 100 years of Route 66” with activities surrounding the Mother Road, which opened for travelers between Chicago to California a century ago.
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1 month ago | 
farmweeknow.com | Phyllis Coulter |Phyllis Coulter FarmWeek
The eggs came before the chickens this month in the third-grade classroom of teacher Kim Cheline. That meant students at Immaculate Conception School in Monmouth had to wait for 21 days to meet the new chicks. Most of these third graders saw eggs hatch before, as wide-eyed kindergarteners, and welcomed cute chicks.
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1 month ago | 
effinghamdailynews.com | Phyllis Coulter |Phyllis Coulter FarmWeek
Sunshine might help increase sheep populations in Illinois, according to an Ohio sheep producer. Camren Maierle, an American Lamb Board member, showed Illinois sheep producers photos of his sheep grazing on Ohio pastures in a field of solar panels. Solar grazing has become a big part of his business. kAm“%96C6 4@F=5 36 2 5646?E 2>@F?E @7 E9:D :? x==:?@:D :? E96 ?6IE 4@FA=6 @7 J62CD[” |2:6C=6 E@=5 x==:?@:D =2>3 2?5 H@@= AC@5F46CD 2E E96 $966A x?5FDECJ s2J] %96C6 2C6 23@FE dd[___ D966A :?
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1 month ago | 
effinghamdailynews.com | Phyllis Coulter |Phyllis Coulter FarmWeek
Weather has changed over the past century when much of the river infrastructure was built, according to Madelynn Wuestenberg, Iowa State University Extension weather and climate specialist. The Mississippi River Basin has received an increase in annual precipitation with more coming in heavy rainfall events.
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1 month ago | 
rivercountynews.com | Phyllis Coulter
If you’re a current subscriber, log in below. If you would like to subscribe, please click the subscribe tab above. Username Password Lost your password? Please enter your email and we will send your username and password to you. Email ← Back By PHYLLIS COULTER FarmWeek Weather has changed over the past century when much of the river infrastructure was built, according to Madelynn Wuestenberg, Iowa State University Extension weather and climate specialist.
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2 months ago | 
thecounty-chronicle.com | Phyllis Coulter
If you’re a current subscriber, log in below. If you would like to subscribe, please click the subscribe tab above. Username Password Lost your password? Please enter your email and we will send your username and password to you. Email ← Back By PHYLLIS COULTER FarmWeek Weather has changed over the past century when much of the river infrastructure was built, according to Madelynn Wuestenberg, Iowa State University Extension weather and climate specialist.
