LaHood, however, has fought to keep the Peoria Ag Lab running in the past. In 2019, LaHood and then-U.S. Rep. Cheri Bustos, a Democrat, lobbied the Trump administration to remove the facility from ...

State officials suspended the license of Certified Ag Labs for 30 days and thereafter allowed the business to resume testing, except for THC. Certified Ag Labs since presented the state with a ...

Peoria's ag lab soon could have a new, climate-controlled greenhouse for research into four key crops — and there's a bipartisan effort to fund its construction. Both U.S. Reps. Cheri Bustos and ...

The Ag Lab also has one of the largest publicly available collections of microbes in the world. That’s about 90,000 different microbes — yeasts, bacteria, fungi, etc. — that started from the ...

A $749,700 state grant was announced this week for Naper Settlement’s agriculture laboratory, part of the history museum’s proposed welcome center and agricultural facility headed to the ...

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The Mobile Ag Ed Science Lab has been in operation for 15 years, said Leigh Ann Courtney, program coordinator. In 2016, the program counted 1 million students served since the program’s inception.