Month: June 2018
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Iowa’s crops are looking good
With most of its spring planting problems in the rear-view mirror, Iowa’s corn and soybean crops are looking good. The latest crop progress report has a good-to-excellent rating of 81 percent on corn and 80 [Read More…]
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South Dakota corn is 70 percent good to excellent
South Dakota topsoil moisture is 73 adequate to surplus. Corn’s in good shape at 70 percent good to excellent and was almost all planted as of Sunday. Soybeans are 67 percent good to excellent, with [Read More…]
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Illinois gets much needed rain
Much needed rain was reported in Illinois this past week. Topsoil moisture is 78 percent adequate to surplus. Ninety-one percent of the corn is up and is 81 percent good to excellent. Soybean planting is [Read More…]
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Missouri corn 67 percent good to excellent
Warmer temperatures allowed planting progress this past week in Missouri. Topsoil moisture is 61 percent adequate to surplus. Corn’s in good shape; it’s 67 percent good to excellent. Soybean planting is 85 percent complete. Sorghum [Read More…]
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New body-cam videos shows Milwaukee police discussing possible backlash from Sterling Brown arrest
WISN-TV(MILWAUKEE) — Newly-released video of the arrest of Milwaukee Bucks player Sterling Brown shows law enforcement officers stepping on Brown’s ankle while he’s on ground, talking about getting overtime and acknowledging that the incident could [Read More…]
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At least 60 die in Guatemala’s ‘Volcano of Fire’
ABCNews.com(GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala) — At least 60 people, including several children, have died after the most violent volcanic eruption in Guatemala in more than a century, authorities said. The Volcan de Fuego, Spanish for “Volcano [Read More…]
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The house from ‘The Holiday’ could be yours
Don Lewis(LOS ANGELES) — You can live out your best life in a dreamy California home made famous by none other than Kate Winslet. The 10,000-square foot home that served as Winslet’s character’s vacation home [Read More…]
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13-year-old was shot 7 times, including in her face and neck, at school: Family
iStock/Thinkstock(INDIANAPOLIS) — A 13-year-old girl was shot seven times in the face, neck, chest and hand at her Indiana middle school last month, her family said Monday. Ella Whistler was in science class at Noblesville [Read More…]
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Inquiry finds that ‘stay put’ strategy failed in deadly London tower blaze
iStock/Thinkstock(LONDON) — Residents of London’s Grenfell Tower should not have been advised to stay in their apartments as flames engulfed the 25-story building, according to initial findings of a public inquiry released on Monday. The [Read More…]
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CME dairy markets down 3rd straight day Monday
The dairy markets were lower for a third straight trading session Monday at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Class Three June milk was down $.11 to $15.38. July was down $.21 to $16.02. August was down [Read More…]
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Siemers-Peterman plans to stay involved in agriculture
Wisconsin’s new Alice in Dairyland, Kaitlyn Riley started her new duties Monday, and her predecessor plans to find a permanent career in agriculture. Crystal Siemers-Peterman tells Brownfield, “I look forward to working hopefully in the dairy [Read More…]
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Bayer acquisition becomes final June 7
Bayer expects to close on its acquisition of Monsanto this Thursday. Bayer’s Crop Science Division president Liam Condon says the two companies will continue to operate separately until divestments to BASF are finalized which [Read More…]
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Farmer says tired of being a pawn
A soybean farmer says she’s frustrated commodities are being used as pawns in political negotiations. “I shouldn’t be surprised, but it seems slightly ironic a tweet from the President can cause a 20-cent change in [Read More…]
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Storms, building heat on the Plains
Across the Corn Belt, dry weather favors late-season planting efforts. However, near- to above-normal temperatures in the western Corn Belt contrast with cool conditions in the Ohio Valley and the lower Great Lakes region. [Read More…]
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Apple will now offer group FaceTime chats, more animojis for users
Apple(SAN JOSE, Calif.) — Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC18) kicked off today at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California. More than 6,000 developers from around the world are attending the five-day event. [Read More…]
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Three women identified as ‘suspicious’ bodies found at kidnapping suspect’s Massachusetts home
WCW via ABCNews.com (SPRINGFIELD, Mass.) — Officials said Monday the three victims who were found dead at a home in Springfield, Massachusetts, last week were all women. They were identified as: Ernestine Ryans, 47, of [Read More…]
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More than 100 Confederate tributes removed since 2015 mass killing but more than 1,700 remain, report says
Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Some remnants of the Confederacy have been removed from prominent U.S. cities and locations to great fanfare, like the removal of the Confederate flag from the South Carolina statehouse [Read More…]
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Mystery dinosaur skeleton sells at Eiffel Tower auction for more than $2 million
ABCNews.com(PARIS) — The 150 million-year-old, largely-intact skeleton of a still-unknown species of dinosaur went to auction today in Paris and sold for more than two million dollars – and if paleontologists’ hunches prove true, the [Read More…]
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Nashville cops on manhunt for fired gym worker who allegedly killed former boss with hatchet
MNPDNashville/Twitter(NASHVILLE) — A manhunt is underway to track down a fired gym employee who allegedly killed a co-worker with a hatchet, Metro Nashville Police Department officials said. Authorities said that Domenic Micheli, 36, showed up [Read More…]
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China says ‘door is open’ to more talks
Weekend trade talks between the U.S. and China produced no immediate breakthroughs. In fact, some analysts fear efforts to resolve the trade dispute may have taken a step back, with China warning that all progress [Read More…]