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 For more than 20 years, the farmdoc website has provided
Midwestern crop and livestock producers with constant access to
expertise and analysis to help better manage their operations.
Dennis Bowman, Illinois Extension interim assistant dean for ag
and natural resources says the new cropcentral website (https://farmdoc.illinois.
edu/field-crop-production) will further the Department
of Agricultural and Consumer Environmental Science’s mission to
help producers and businesses solve problems.
“Farmdoc has a tremendous reach and is really well known,”
Bowman says. “Farmers would tell us how much they appreciated
the website, but in the past, they couldn’t always find field
crop production information.”
On the new cropcentral website, at cropcentral.illinois.edu,
university experts will discuss a wide variety of management
topics including crop production, diseases, insects, field
updates, soils and weeds at cropcentral.illinois.edu.
Cropcentral will also host the electronic newsletter, the
Bulletin.
“Cropcentral collects production information into a
one-stop-shop,” Bowman says. “So it will be easy for farmers,
educators, journalists, traders, market analysts and policy
makers to find current information like crop conditions
throughout the season.”
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Farmdoc, short for farm decision outreach central,
first went online in 1999. Ever since, the project has harnessed the
power of university experts, research and resources and delivered
unbiased and timely economic information and analysis.
Bowman says farmdoc’s comprehensive library of resources provides
tools and information on agricultural finances, laws and taxation,
farm management, and agricultural policy and wide variety of
agricultural publications for farmers, extension educators, market
analysts and many others in the agriculture industry across the U.S.
Over the years, the farmdoc suite of websites has grown to also
include FarmDoc Daily and Farm Policy News.
[SOURCE: Dennis Bowman, Interim
Assistant Dean Agriculture and Natural Resources, Illinois Extension
WRITER: Emily Steele, Media Communications Coordinator, Illinois
Extension]
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