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LLCC Announces New Ag Programs

One state university and four Illinois community colleges are kicking off new agricultural and environmental programs. That includes Lincoln Land Community College in Springfield.

The programs will be funded with nearly $10 million in federal aid, part of $450 million in job-training grants from the US Department of Labor, announced earlier this week. For Lincoln Land, that means two new programs, agricultural watershed, and landscape lake management. David Bowman is with the college and says these degrees could help benefit: "Farmers that have issues regarding nitrogen runoff, phosphorous runoff, sediment loading into streams..."

Lincoln Land received $883,000 in grant money. Lewis and Clark, Carl Sandburg, and Southeastern Illinois colleges - along with Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, are the other schools to receive funding. Their programs will include education in bio-fuels.

Rachel Otwell of the Illinois Times is a former NPR Illinois reporter.
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