Agri News (Rochester, Minn., Nov. 11) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture and the National Science Foundation announced the winners, including a team from Illinois, of the first Innovations in Food and Agricultural Science and Technology $200,000 prize competition. The U of I team is bringing to market two software packages that make it possible for crop advisers to inexpensively run large-scale, on-farm agronomic trials and create strategies for profitable nitrogen fertilizer management.