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Food security

• War Against Weeds Podcast: The Silver Bullet That Wasn’t – see episode Jan. 24, 2024
• Researchers quantify decline in glyphosate control (Jan. 5, 2024)
• The silver bullet that wasn’t: Glyphosate’s declining weed control over 25 years (Dec. 5, 2023)
  
• Crop researcher focuses on better food production (Aug. 15, 2022)
• Climate change expected to help weeds more than corn (July 15, 2022)
• Climate change demands near perfect weed control in soybean (April 11, 2022)
• Weather variations place more pressure on weed management (Oct. 11, 2021)
• U.S. Farm Report Oct. 9, 2021, College Roadshow feature
• Managing weeds in variable weather: insights from data mining (Sept. 30, 2021)
• Think climate change is bad for corn?  Add weeds to the equation (Sept. 7, 2021)
• Variable weather makes weeds harder to whack (Feb. 8, 2021)
• Farming becoming riskier under climate change (March 27, 2017)
• Food and fuel: a model for bioenergy feedstock/vegetable double-cropping systems 
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Vegetable legumes (edamame, lima bean, snap bean)

• Cover crop could solve problems for edamame growers (October 13, 2020)
• New planting guidelines could boost edamame profits (March 13, 2020)
• Early-killed rye shows promise in edamame (Mar. 7, 2018)
• Snap beans hard to grow in cover crop residue (Feb. 16, 2017)
• Getting to know, getting to grow, edamame (Feb. 15, 2017)
• Edamame waits in the wings: soybean cousin searches for place in U.S. farmland (Sept. 26, 2016)
• One step closer to commercial edamame production in the U.S. (Feb. 4, 2016)
• I want my edamame (Feb. 8, 2016)
• Cool beans – Illinois farmer experiments with edamame (Nov. 12, 2015)
• Research charts a course for increasing edamame acreage (April 30, 2015)
• Recent herbicides labeled for edamame could mean more U.S. production of the crop ​(March 17, 2014)
• Edamame given star role in latest UI Agronomy Day tour (Aug. 17, 2012)
• A boost to U.S. edamame production (Feb. 2011)

Sweet Corn, Popcorn, Field Corn

• The Big Show Radio Interview: tolpyralate sensitivity (Jan. 26, 2024)
• Researcher finds severe sensitivity to herbicide in corn lines (Jan. 16, 2024)
• Genetic sleuthing reveals new weakness in corn’s herbicide armor (Jan. 8, 2024)
• New genetic vulnerability to herbicide found in nearly 50 sweet and field corn lines (Dec. 13, 2023)
• Sweet corn yield at the mercy of the environment, except for one key factor (August 24, 2023)
• Canned, frozen corn industry struggling across US growing regions (July 10, 2023)
• Illinois study reveals genetic secrets of America’s favorite snack (June 27, 2023)
• Sweet corn sweltering in summer heat spells uncertainty for corn lovers (Nov. 11, 2022)
• Sweet Discovery: U of I research finds potential for sweet corn growers (Aug. 1, 2022)
• ​​Corn develops density tolerance over time (Feb. 17, 2022)
• Illinois research shows how dicamba could be safely used in sweet corn (Feb. 8, 2022)
• Sweet corn yield gain over 80 years leaves room for improvement (Nov. 7, 2021)
• Growing sweet corn at higher densities doesn’t increase root lodging risk (May 10, 2021)
• Sweet corn growers, processors could dramatically increase yield, profit (Oct. 8, 2019)
• Sweetening the deal (Nov. 18, 2018)
• In sweet corn, workhorses win (Jan. 17, 2018)
• Atrazine alternatives in sweet corn (July 12, 2016)
• Sweet corn genes related to crowding stress identified (March 15, 2016)
• ​Transgenic sweet corn no more susceptible to Goss’s wilt disease (Feb. 17, 2016)
• Sweet corn ‘stress test’ offers efficient way to identify high-yielding hybrids (Oct. 5, 2015)
• Better sweet corn research, better production (Jan. 22, 2014)
• Can sweet corn be grown using less atrazine? (2013)
• Tolerating neighbors: competition in sweet corn (March 12, 2013)
• Disease and weed duo can devastate sweet corn yields (Feb. 29, 2012)
• Less competitive sweet corn varieties can result in higher weed pressure (Feb. 20, 2012)
• U of I research elevates sweet corn production (Feb. 2012)
• A seedy solution to controlling weeds? (Feb. 13, 2012)
• Sweeten up your profits with the right hybrids (Jan. 23, 2012)
• A quarter century of sweet corn observations ​(Dec. 22, 2011)
• Sweet corn yield gain over 80 years leaves room for improvement (Oct. 7, 2021)