Bacteriologist and parasitologist Michelle Jakaitis uses a microscope to view a training sample of veligers, which are the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lindsey Fransen, a laboratory technician with the National Agricultural Genotyping Center in Fargo, North Dakota, on Sept. 8, 2022, places samples into PowerLyzer 24 homogenizer, which pulverizes ...

Farmers are invited to gain insights into practical applications for their own operations here Aug. 7 at the University of ...

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 ...

Jonathan Coppess leads the Gardner Agricultural Policy Program and the Policy Design Lab at the University of Illinois. His ...

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.