Month: July 2018
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Rescue efforts continue to save soccer team trapped in flooded cave in Thailand
Asaf Zmirly(CHIANG RAI, Thailand) — In northern Thailand, rescuers are working around the clock to save 12 boys and their soccer coach who have been trapped inside a partly flooded cave for almost two weeks. [Read More…]
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Protester who climbed Statue of Liberty charged in federal court
ABC News(WASHINGTON) — The woman who scaled Lady Liberty on the Fourth of July was formally charged in federal court Thursday. Therese Okoumou, 44, of Staten Island, New York, was charged with trespassing, interference with [Read More…]
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Duchess Meghan attends reception for young leaders with Prince Harry
Yui Mok – WPA Pool/Getty Images(LONDON) — The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan, met with young leaders from across the Commonwealth at a reception Thursday at Marlborough House in London. [Read More…]
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HHS officials working to meet deadline on migrant family reunification
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Thursday that the administration is working to meet a court-ordered deadline on ensuring that migrant children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border be [Read More…]
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Interest rates to farmers up 1.5% since end of 2015
The latest quarterly report by the Federal Reserve shows ag bankers are slowly raising interest rates on operating loans to farmers. Lenders charged an average rate of nearly 5 percent this spring, up from 3.5 [Read More…]
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Rain dampens hope for good yields in SW Minnesota
Extreme rainfall is dampening hopes for good crop yields in southwest Minnesota. University of Minnesota extension educator David Bau is based in Worthington, and says the area has seen close to a foot of rain [Read More…]
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Minnesota Pork CEO calls for resolution to trade disputes
Farm groups continue to call for resolution on trade disputes. David Preisler, CEO of the Minnesota Pork Producers, tells Brownfield American pig farmers have been hit hard by retaliatory tariffs from China and Mexico. “Now [Read More…]
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Tariffs set to go into effect
Tariffs on $34 billion in Chinese goods are set to go into effect tomorrow, and China has said it will retaliate immediately with equal tariffs on US goods, including soybeans and cars. In a recent [Read More…]
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Lake Springfield Watershed Soil Health Field Day.
Brownfield’s Tom Steever will be in Auburn, IL on July 26, 2018 for the Lake Springfield Watershed Soil Health Field Day. Continue reading Lake Springfield Watershed Soil Health Field Day. at Brownfield Ag News.
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Monsoon rains could damper rescue efforts to save soccer team in Thailand cave
Linh Pham/Getty Images(CHIANG RAI, Thailand) — With heavy rains forecast for this weekend, rescuers are racing against time and Mother Nature to drain a partly flooded cave in northern Thailand where 12 boys and their [Read More…]
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Couple sickened with nerve agent not ‘deliberately targeted’
iStock/Thinkstock(AMESBURY, U.K.) — A couple who has fallen critically ill in England is at the center of a widening investigation into whether they were exposed to a Soviet-era nerve agent that previously sickened a former [Read More…]
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Transitioning to group housing of sows
At the recent World Pork Expo, we stopped by the Nedap Livestock Management booth to visit with pork producers who own and/or manage facilities that have converted from gestation stalls to group sow housing. On [Read More…]
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Record rainfall in Houston as searing heat lingers out West
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Severe storms on Wednesday that stretched from Colorado to New Jersey dumped a record rainfall on Houston, with some areas seeing up to 8 inches. On America’s birthday, 77 damaging storms [Read More…]
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‘Plane Bae’ says ‘there’s still hope’ for him and mystery woman
iStock/Thinkstock(DALLAS) — After a midflight love connection went viral, a mystery couple gave everyone a glimmer of hope for a happy ending. “I walked on a plane just ready to get home and ended up [Read More…]
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Pennsylvania man who was Tasered says police ‘were not doing their job right’
ABC News(LANCASTER, Penn.) — The 27-year-old Lancaster, Pennsylvania, man shot in the back with a Taser as he sat on the curb said the incident wasn’t racially motivated — it was caused by incompetence. “I [Read More…]
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Record rainfall in Houston as searing heat lingers out West
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Severe storms on Wednesday that stretched from Colorado to New Jersey dumped a record rainfall on Houston, with some areas seeing up to 8 inches. On America’s birthday, 77 damaging storms [Read More…]
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Policy expert says Conservation Stewardship Program needed in final farm bill
A University of Illinois farm policy expert says the House and Senate conference committee should preserve the Conservation Stewardship Program in the final farm bill. Jonathon Coppess leads the Garner Agriculture Policy Program and the Bock [Read More…]
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Protester arrested after climbing base of Statue of Liberty
ABC News(NEW YORK) — A 44-year-old protester picked a patriotic location this Independence Day: the Statue of Liberty. Therese Patricia Okoumou, of Staten Island, was arrested after scaling the base of the statue and taking [Read More…]
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Protester who climbed Statue of Liberty apprehended by cops
ABC News(NEW YORK) — A protester picked a patriotic location to demonstrate on Wednesday by climbing the Statue of Liberty. The unidentified female protester scaled the base of the statue and took up temporary residence [Read More…]
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Medics, supplies reach boys soccer team trapped in Thailand cave as rescue planning intensifies
iStock/Thinkstock(CHIANG RAI, Thailand) — The 12 boys and their soccer coach who remain trapped inside a partly flooded cave in northern Thailand appeared healthy and upbeat in new video released Wednesday morning. The footage, taken [Read More…]