Month: September 2018
Ag News
U.S. poultry production up 2% in August
The USDA says August poultry production was up 2% on the year at 4.470 billion pounds. The preliminary live weight of all poultry was also 2% above a year ago at 5.907 billion pounds and [Read More…]
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Fuel Up to Play 60 paying back for dairy farmers
A spokesperson for Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin says Fuel up to Play 60 has helped increase student access to healthy foods and consumption of dairy products. Tina Peterson tells Brownfield the dairy checkoff has been [Read More…]
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U.S. and Canada working hard to resolve NAFTA differences
The Undersecretary for Trade at USDA says the U.S. and Canada are working hard to settle differences on NAFTA. Ted McKinney calls discussions with Canadian trade officials civil and in earnest. “There’s no flailing of [Read More…]
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Bill Cosby sentenced to 3 to 10 years in state prison with no bail during appeals
Mark Makela/Getty Images(NORRISTOWN, Pa.) — Bill Cosby was sentenced Tuesday to three to 10 years in state prison by a Pennsylvania judge who had designated the comedian a “sexually violent predator.” Judge Steven O’Neill sentenced [Read More…]
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Bill Cosby sentenced to 3 to 10 years in prison after being deemed a ‘sexually violent predator’
Mark Makela/Getty Images(NORRISTOWN, Pa.) — Bill Cosby was sentenced Tuesday to three to 10 years in prison by a Pennsylvania judge who had designated the comedian a “sexually violent predator.” Judge Steven O’Neill sentenced Cosby [Read More…]
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Israel under threat in shifting Middle East diplomacy: Analysis
Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — High on the list of discussions that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is likely to have with President Donald Trump at this week’s U.N. General Assembly in New York will [Read More…]
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USDA sets goals for cattle traceability system
The USDA has announced its traceability program goals for cattle. USDA Undersecretary Greg Ibach for marketing and regulatory programs says in Fiscal Year 2019, the USDA will start building the capability for the electronic sharing [Read More…]
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Showery weather across the Heartland
Across the Corn Belt, sharply cooler air, along with rain, is arriving across the upper Midwest. Wet conditions continue to hamper upper Midwestern fieldwork; on September 23, topsoil moisture was rated 25% surplus in Iowa [Read More…]
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A wetter pattern ahead for the Heartland
In the West, late-season warmth and mostly dry conditions will promote summer crop maturation and harvesting, as well as winter wheat planting. Farther east, however, a series of cold fronts will maintain showery conditions [Read More…]
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Harsdorf, state ag administrators support labeling imitation milk and meat
State ag department leaders took a stand on two food labeling issues. Wisconsin’s Secretary of Agriculture Sheila Harsdorf received strong support for her two resolutions at the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture conference. [Read More…]
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Chlorpyrifos ban appealed
The Department of Justice is requesting a rehearing of a district court ruling that would ban the use of the pesticide chlorpyrifos. Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue praised the decision saying USDA disagrees with the ruling [Read More…]
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7-year-old girl swinging on hammock dies after tree crashes down on her
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — A young girl in Virginia was killed while swinging on a hammock after a tree the hammock was tied to fell on her, authorities said. “It was a tragic accident,” Kraig Troxell [Read More…]
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7-year-old girl swinging on hammock dies after tree crashes down on her
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — A young girl in Virginia was killed while swinging on a hammock after a tree the hammock was tied to fell on her, authorities said. “It was a tragic accident,” Kraig Troxell [Read More…]
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Slain DC jogger Wendy Martinez will be laid to rest in wedding dress
Metropolitan Police Department(WASHINGTON) — Friends and family are set to gather at a funeral service in Florida Tuesday for Wendy Martinez, one week after she was brutally stabbed to death while jogging in Washington, D.C. [Read More…]
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1-year-old left in shopping cart at Target parking lot, mom arrested: Police
Google Maps (EASTON, Mass.) — A mother has been arrested for allegedly leaving her 1-year-old son in a shopping cart at a Target parking lot this weekend, police said. A customer at an Easton, Massachusetts, [Read More…]
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Divers, helicopters, drones and parents’ voices used in search for missing 6-year-old
FBI Charlotte(GASTONIA, N.C.) — As the FBI and local authorities desperately search for a 6-year-old boy who went missing in a North Carolina park, investigators are using divers, helicopters, drones and the boy’s parents’ voices [Read More…]
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Pope acknowledges young people ‘put off’ by church scandals
Franco Origlia/Getty Images(TALLINN, Estonia) — Pope Francis addressed the sex abuse scandals impacting the Catholic Church and the effect they have had on young people during a speech in Estonia Tuesday. Francis acknowledged that some [Read More…]
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Controversial performance artist Marina Abramovic hit over the head at book signing
Laura Lezza/Getty Images(FLORENCE, Italy) — A controversial performance artist was attacked Sept. 23 at a book signing in Florence, Italy. Marina Abramovic was meeting fans at the opening of a retrospective exhibition of her work [Read More…]
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Bill Cosby ruled a ‘sexually violent predator,’ sentencing to follow
Mark Makela/Getty Images(NORRISTOWN, Pa.) — A Pensylvania judge deemed Bill Cosby a “sexually violent predator” Tuesday. Judge Steven O’Neill is expected to sentence Cosby Tuesday morning in a Norristown, Pennsylvania, courtroom. Copyright © 2018, ABC [Read More…]
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Tropical depression could form off coast of Carolinas, bring more rain
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Thousands of people continue to be forced to evacuate in the Carolinas due to rising rivers after Hurricane Florence — and more rain is on the way Tuesday. A tropical [Read More…]