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Column: Crop Watch: Bean harvest wrapping up; Illinois corn disappoints















NAPERVILLE, Ill., Oct 10 (Reuters) - Just three of the 11 U.S. Crop Watch soybean fields still await harvest, but those should be finished early this week as most producers’ harvest paces are ahead of normal.

The western Illinois corn last week became the second completed Crop Watch corn field, and the final yield score ended at 4.5, a quarter-point below expectations. Too much moisture at inopportune times during the season fostered ... Read more

One more football game for Rep. Rodney Davis

Like a lot of boys, Rodney Davis grew up dreaming of playing in the NFL.

“Unfortunately, no one wanted me to be a professional football player, let alone a major college football player, or even a midsize college football player,” he ... Read more

Sutcliffe Adds Three Individuals to 2024 Roster

Softball | December 13

Head Coachof the Northern Illinois University softball program added three more signatures to the 2024 softball roster, the program announced Tuesday (Dec. 13).Sutcliffe added two transfer student-athletes in Jenna ... Read more

3 can-do farm shops

Take a look at these three Midwest farm shops after undergoing innovative structural changes that improve working conditions for their owners.

Raise-the-roof remodel

Madrid, Iowa

Nathan Todd is one of those peop ... Read more

Silver Alert canceled, 85-year-old woman found safe

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - A Silver Alert has been canceled for an 85-year-old woman missing out of Beloit after officials reported she was found safe.

A Silver Alert was issued Monday afternoon for Helyn A. Everson, who was last heard from around 6:20 p.m. Monday. She was supposed to pick up her daughter in South Beloit, Illinois, and officials said she never arrived.

An updated alert sent out at 9:50 stated that she was located safe.

Click here to download the NBC15 News app or our NBC15 First Alert weather ... Read more

World's Largest Talking Cow: world record set in Neillsville

NEILLSVILLE, Wisconsin, United States--Standing tall in the city of Neillsville, Wisconsin is Chatty Belle, a giant Holstein fitted with a voice box; she stands 16 feet high at the shoulders and is 20 feet long, seven times as large as the average Ho ... Read more

Real thing or staged drill, the mere sound of gunshots can b

Bullets.

The sound of bullets; a terrifying classroom tempo orchestrated by gunmen slaughtering America’s schoolchildren.

“The sound of bullets can change everything,” said Blondean Davis, 72, a renowned Chicago educat ... Read more

Column: Crop Watch: Western fields dinged by dryness; East f















NAPERVILLE, Ill., Aug 8 (Reuters) - Crop Watch producers in the western U.S. Corn Belt trimmed crop ratings across the board after a hot and mostly dry ... Read more