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  • Garden Wise
  • February 2017

Why is my plant turning yellow?

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  • Currents
  • February 2017

Prairie Farmer, the oldest continually published magazine in America

In 2015, USDA Rural Development Director Coleen Callahan helped dedicate the Shelby Electric Cooperative solar farm with Shelby Electric President/CEO Josh Shallenberger.
  • Currents
  • February 2017

Transition happens but the mission of rural development remains

Your home performance contractor can work with you to ­determine whether whole house ventilation is needed. Photo Credit: Weatherization Assistance Project Technical Assistance Center.
  • Energy Solutions
  • February 2017

Seal tight, ventilate right

Meatloaf
  • Finest Cooking
  • February 2017

Meatloaf

FoodExpo
  • Feature Stories
  • February 2017

Celebrating the sweet smell of success at the Illinois Products Expo

Cookies
  • Finest Cooking
  • February 2017

Almond Joy Cookies

  • Finest Cooking
  • February 2017

Cream of Cauliflower and Cheese Soup

Muffins
  • Finest Cooking, ICL
  • February 2017

Cherry Almond Muffins

BurritoBowl
  • Finest Cooking
  • February 2017

Easy Burrito Bowls

BruschettaChic
  • Finest Cooking
  • February 2017

Creamy Bruschetta Chicken

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  • First Thoughts
  • February 2017

Fixing Illinois’ worst-in-the-nation formula for school funding

  • Feature Stories
  • February 2017

Celebrating the sweet smell of success at the Illinois Products Expo

  • Currents
  • February 2017

Biodiesel production predicted to grow in 2017

Stephen P. Long, a professor of crop sciences and of plant biology, center, with postdoctoral researchers Johannes Kromdijk, left, and Katarzyna Glowacka, increased plant yield by altering a mechanism plants use to protect themselves from excess solar energy. - Photo by L. Brian Stauffer
  • Currents
  • February 2017

Scientists tweak photosynthesis to boost crop yield

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  • Currents
  • February 2017

It pays to be connected with Co-op Connections

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  • Safety Check

Reduce the risk of electrical fires with AFCIs

Salad
  • Finest Cooking
  • February 2017

Green Fresh Salad

  • Web exclusive

What makes a utility great

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  • First Thoughts
  • January 2017

Manufacturing a middle class in Illinois once again

Natural lighting, combined with overhead and task lighting, can make a kitchen functional and energy efficient.
  • Energy Solutions
  • January 2017

Remodeling the heart of your home

emergency kit
  • Safety Check
  • January 2017

Empower yourself when the lights go off

Pets
  • Feature Stories
  • January 2017

Take two pets, and call me in the morning

  • Feature Stories
  • January 2017

Lights out!

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  • Finest Cooking
  • January 2017

Sicilian Sausage Soup

Discussing cooperative board and management challenges during the November 15-16 Mid America Cooperative Board Roundtable are (l-r) Duane Noland, President and CEO of the AIEC; David Senn, Board Chairman, Jo-Carroll Energy, Inc.; Bernard Marvel, Board Chairman, Spoon River Electric Cooperative; Dan Kelley, Vice Chairman, CoBank and ­former Chairman of Growmark, Inc., and Dennis Fredrickson, AIEC Board Chairman and Board Member of Corn Belt Energy Corporation.
  • Currents
  • January 2017

Co-op leaders discuss today’s challenges at leadership roundtable

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  • Finest Cooking
  • January 2017

Kielbasa Casserole

LemonBrownies
  • Finest Cooking
  • January 2017

Lemon Brownies

WhiteChedSoup
  • Finest Cooking
  • January 2017

White Cheddar Beer Cheese Soup

BLT-Salad
  • Finest Cooking
  • January 2017

BLT Salad

  • Currents
  • January 2017

Saving Illinois forests by cutting down trees

pieces of coal
  • Feature Stories, ICL
  • January 2017

Power from the earth

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