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The lava flow from the Kilauea Volcano is seen advancing across a pasture between the Pahoa cemetery and Apa'a Street, in this U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) image taken near the village of Pahoa, Hawaii October 25, 2014.

REUTERS/U.S. Geological Survey/Handout                 (Click on picture for larger image) 

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• Illinois grain prices in country elevators

• Column
  Preparing the outdoors for winter  
  By John Fulton

• Union Pacific Urges Agriculture Producers to Stay Safe When Crossing Tracks during Harvest  

• FSA Bulletin  
  USDA expands access to credit to help more beginning and family farmers regarding the Microloan program loan limits

• FSA News Bulletin 
  Enrollment for New Dairy Farm Risk Management Program to Begin Sept. 2

• FSA Bulletin  
  USDA Farm Service Agency announces key dates for new 2014 Farm Bill Safety Net programs

• Logan County FSA Program Update  

• FSA offers farm bill website

• U of I Policy Matters Website

Local

• Logan County Department of Public Health staff spend the day with nationally know breastfeeding speaker, Cathy Carothers 

• Diabetes 101 to Educate Care Providers Offered in Lincoln          

• Girls on the Run Community “Realize Your Limitless Potential 5k” – Nov. 8th  

• Patient safety organization first of its kind in downstate Illinois  

• Ra’Kerry Rahman, MD, brings Orthopedics to Lincoln    

• Bringing Outdoor Trails to Logan County 
  Why are trails important to Logan County?
  Public Meeting Scheduled for October 28

• Logan County Department of Public Health food inspection scores

• Births at ALMH

National, International

U.S. isolates troops, Australia slaps visa ban on Ebola-hit West Africa states

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, speaks with Group Captain Paul Warwick, chief British military support to the National Ebola Response Centre situation room, in Freetown, Sierra Leone, October 27, 2014. REUTERS/Michelle Nichols

• Australia issues blanket visa ban on Ebola-hit countries

• WHO says 82 being monitored for Ebola in Mali

• Amgen, Sanofi, Ono link with academia on proteins project

CDC says returning Ebola medical workers should not be quarantined

A digitally colorized scanning electron micrograph depiction shows numerous filamentous Ebola virus particles in green, budding from a chronically infected VERO E6 cell in orange at 25,000X magnification in this undated handout picture from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). REUTERS/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/Handout via Reuters

• Novartis sees new heart failure drug as 'multi-blockbuster'

• Baltimore hospital says it's assessing potential Ebola patient

• U.S. judge slashes $9 billion award vs Takeda, Lilly over diabetes drug

• California Ebola researcher raises $100,000 via crowdfunding