Food Environment Atlas

Food environment factors—such as store and restaurant proximity, availability of local foods, food and nutrition assistance programs, and community characteristics—interact to influence food choices and diet quality.

The objectives of the Food Environment Atlas are:

to provide a spatial overview of a community's ability to access healthy food and its success in doing so, and
to assemble statistics on food environment indicators to stimulate research on the determinants of food choices and diet quality.

View the map here on U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)'s website

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Week Ending 8/28/26 Summary

By Lyndi Allen • August 28, 2026

News from IL Corn for week ending 8/28/26

Tall green corn plants under a partly cloudy blue sky

New Tariffs on Canada Raise Concerns for Corn Farmers

By Lyndi Allen • August 27, 2026

New tariffs on Canadian goods took effect August 22, a critical market for U.S. agriculture. For Illinois farmers, the concern is what these tariffs could mean for demand.

Golden field at sunset with distant trees and a low farmhouse on the horizon

Union Pacific – Norfolk Southern Rail Merger

By Lyndi Allen • August 27, 2026

A proposed merger between Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern would create the first true transcontinental Class I railroad in the United States, what does it mean for farmers