Among consumers, families with children buy the most candy.

American Farm Bureau Federation's informal survey shows the total cost of 16 food items used to prepare one or more meals was $49.70, down $4.40 or 8 percent compared to a survey conducted a year ago.

The grant will be used to develop a system for scalable carbon accounting in agriculture through NCGA's Soil Health Partnership (SHP) initiative.

"For us to fill a need, this was really the only way to do it," Principal Dustin Foutch said about All Ag Online, an accredited, online agricultural education program.

Experts suggest building soil matter offsets climate instability.

USDA Rural Development awarded $4.7 million in Distance Learning and Telemedicine program grants to support 11 distance learning efforts, including one in Illinois, and seven telemedicine projects.