Western Illinois University Board of Trustees is meeting today and tomorrow to decide upon all of the personnel contract proposals. We have not had raises around here for 8 years or so. Hopefully, our modest 10% over three years proposals go through. Some of our office managers are literally working for $14.50 an hour. One was managing a couple million dollar budget, and barely being paid minimum wage. When people suggest state employees are overpaid, they are in fact mistaken.
Illinois corn crop yield estimated by Growmark at 213bu/acre seems to be coming in better than forecast. The expected rain over the next 4 days will help lift the Mississippi level for barges.
“However, field canvassers with Bloomington-based agricultural cooperative GROWMARK are seeing a different outcome: Illinois farmers will harvest 213 bu./acre this fall, according to data gleaned from 282 field location samples. This would put the 2023 state corn yield on par with the 214 bpa farmers harvested in 2022”
- Huh? - Thursday, Oct 12, 23 @ 8:06 am:
Rain, rain, go away, come again some other day.
- H-W - Thursday, Oct 12, 23 @ 9:01 am:
Western Illinois University Board of Trustees is meeting today and tomorrow to decide upon all of the personnel contract proposals. We have not had raises around here for 8 years or so. Hopefully, our modest 10% over three years proposals go through. Some of our office managers are literally working for $14.50 an hour. One was managing a couple million dollar budget, and barely being paid minimum wage. When people suggest state employees are overpaid, they are in fact mistaken.
Here’s hoping.
- Donnie Elgin - Thursday, Oct 12, 23 @ 9:15 am:
Illinois corn crop yield estimated by Growmark at 213bu/acre seems to be coming in better than forecast. The expected rain over the next 4 days will help lift the Mississippi level for barges.
“However, field canvassers with Bloomington-based agricultural cooperative GROWMARK are seeing a different outcome: Illinois farmers will harvest 213 bu./acre this fall, according to data gleaned from 282 field location samples. This would put the 2023 state corn yield on par with the 214 bpa farmers harvested in 2022”
https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2023-10-04/farm-economy-could-hinge-on-corn-harvest
- 10th ward - Thursday, Oct 12, 23 @ 9:55 am:
Bears will beat Minnesota on Sunday