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Chrisman FFA member Eli Johnson serves a bowl of chili to advisor Eric Dixon at the organization’s annual community chili lunch to celebrate National FFA week on Wednesday, Feb. 19 in the agriculture shop at Chrisman High School.

Area school students are celebrating National FFA Week now through next Saturday. The goal of FFA week is to raise awareness of the FFA association and the impact it has on its members, and to … more

By Suzanne Williams swilliamsprairiepress@gmail.com | 2/24/20

Bryce Kohlmeyer, left, and Alivia Cline, right, are the most recent Paris High School FFA members to achieve the FFA American Degree. The prestigious award is received by approximately .5 percent of all FFA students, and the 2018 PHS graduates join the less than 30 alumni who have achieved the status during the history of FFA at Paris High School.

Youths win prestigious award

When Bryce Kohlmeyer and Alivia Cline talk agriculture they do so with verve about their passion for what they hope becomes a lifetime career. Agriculture has already shaped them and how they … more

By GARY HENRY ghenry@prairiepress.net | 11/12/19

Planting is once again at a standstill in East Central Illinois as thunderstorms dropped 1.5 inches of rain early Thursday morning. The spring of 2019 is one of the wettest on record and may be a signal of future years, according to University of Illinois experts.

Rain just as bad as drought

Tractors pulling planters filled Edgar County and East Central Illinois fields this past weekend before more rains made the a return to the fields impossible by mid-week. Some farmers north and … more

SPECIAL TO THE PRAIRIE PRESS | 5/29/19

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