Shaw Local
Agriculture | Sauk Valley Living
When the chains in old farm equipment break, dealers often say, “No parts.” A Dixon business says otherwise, and farmers nationwide are dialing in to keep old iron running.
An 80-year-old ag equipment company in Oregon is still shaping land and lives. At Woods Equipment, the machines matter, but the people who use them matter more.
Rethinking rural homes: Barndominiums look like barns, but live like homes. More rural families are choosing post-frame living, and an Indiana company is building them throughout the Midwest.
A year after opening, Morrison High School’s greenhouse is growing more than plants — it’s also growing their connections to food, as well as leadership and research.
At Nomia Meadows Farm in Franklin Grove, John and Lisa Ayers tend to bees, apples and 110 acres of native ground, welcoming visitors into the full-circle quiet of their prairie sanctuary.
Three Illinois FFA leaders from northwest Illinois talk about the lessons they’re learning, the lessons they’re passing along, and what it’s like to be part of something bigger than themselves.
The couple caring for a Stillman Valley farm that’s been in the family for more than 100 years decided to say ‘no’ to chemicals and ‘yes’ to an approach they believe will keep their land healthy until the cows come home.
From Civil War roots to seventh-generation hands, the Chapman family’s Ashton sesquicentennial farm carries a legacy of hard work and humility.
Fishing is in Mike Schafer's blood. The second-generation Fulton business owner has grown his fishery into a worldwide market with most of its catch coming from the mighty river he grew up near.
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