Month: November 2018
Michigan Sugar expects smaller harvest
The Michigan Sugar Company says a dry growing season has reduced the sugar content of this year’s beat crop. Executive Vice President Jim Ruhlman tells Brownfield sugarbeet harvest in the state is about two-thirds complete. “The [Read More…]
USDA partnering abroad to reduce ASF spreading
The Undersecretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs says USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is working with other countries to reduce the spread of African Swine Fever abroad. Ted McKinney says increased international [Read More…]
EPA’s Wheeler on dicamba two-year registration
The EPA has re-registered dicamba products but only for two years. Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler tells Brownfield Ag News why, “This is an important pesticide that a lot of people depend on but there’s also [Read More…]
Google employees around the globe walk out to protest company’s handling of sexual misconduct allegations
Mason Trinca/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Google employees around the world walked out of their offices on Thursday to protest how the technology company handles sexual misconduct allegations. Hundreds of workers walked off the job at [Read More…]
14-year-old girl, 5-year-old brother shot by unknown gunmen while trick-or-treating: Police
WPVI(PHILADELPHIA) — A 14-year-old girl and her 5-year-old brother were shot while trick-or-treating on Halloween, and now Philadelphia police are searching for two gunmen who both may have been wearing masks at the time. Both [Read More…]
Police interview video shows 7-year-old girl describing mom’s 2015 murder
Courtesy: Kim Bourgeois(NEW YORK) — When Kelley Clayton, a 35-year-old mother of two, was found lying dead in her Caton, New York, home in September 2015, police were surprised to learn there was an eyewitness [Read More…]
Operation scaled back in search for missing Wisconsin girl due to declining number of tips
iStock/Thinkstock(BARRON, Wis.) — Authorities are scaling back operations in the search for missing Wisconsin 13-year-old Jayme Closs due to a declining number of tips, the sheriff said Thursday. Jayme was abducted and her parents were [Read More…]
Why Thursday is observed as Latina Equal Pay Day
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Latina Equal Pay Day is Nov. 1. It falls on this day, 10 months and one day into 2018, because a woman of Latin American descent would have to work that amount [Read More…]
Weekly wheat export sales larger than anticipated
The USDA says wheat export sales for the week ending October 25th topped most pre-report expectations, while corn and soybeans were below analysts’ estimates. Physical shipments of corn remain well ahead of the USDA’s projected [Read More…]
7-year-old boy hit by car and killed at school bus stop in Pennsylvania: Official
iStock/Thinkstock(TYRONE, Pa.) — A 7-year-old boy waiting at a school bus stop in Pennsylvania was struck and killed Thursday morning by a vehicle, officials said, the latest in a string of traffic incidents in the [Read More…]
Harrowing audio captures moments officers tried to save deputy trapped in floodwaters
Courtney Fischer/KTRK(HOUSTON) — A Texas sheriff’s deputy died after her car became trapped in rising floodwaters during a storm Wednesday night. The unnamed Waller County deputy was on duty when her patrol car went off [Read More…]
Goldman Sachs former investment bankers charged in $4 billion Malaysian funding scheme
Ramin Talaie/Corbis via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Two former Goldman Sachs investment bankers were charged Thursday with helping to raise money for a Malaysian investment fund that has lost $4 billion, according to federal prosecutors. [Read More…]
Synagogue shooting suspect pleads not guilty as funerals continue for the slain worshippers
iStock/Thinkstock(PITTSBURGH) — The man accused of massacring 11 Jews at a Pittsburgh synagogue entered a not guilty plea Thursday as three of his alleged victims were laid to rest. Suspect Robert Bowers, 46, showed no [Read More…]
Skeleton discovered in basement of home whose owner went missing in 1961
WABC(NEW YORK) — Police on Long Island are investigating human remains discovered on Wednesday in a house whose owner went missing almost 60 years ago, officials said. The remains were found when the current homeowner [Read More…]
General Motors plans to cut costs with employee buyout offers
Bill Pugliano/Getty Images(DETROIT) — General Motors is offering buyouts to 18,000 long-time employees in an effort to cut costs. The automaker said the buyout offers are being made “while our company and economy are strong.” [Read More…]
Widespread rain across the eastern, southern Corn Belt
Across the Corn Belt, a low-pressure system centered over the lower Ohio Valley is producing heavy rain and halting fieldwork from Missouri into the lower Great Lakes region. Meanwhile, upper Midwestern field conditions are [Read More…]
Cool, wet pattern for most of the Heartland
A slow-moving cold front will drift eastward, sparking heavy, late-week rain across a broad area. Storm total rainfall could reach 1 to 3 inches or more throughout the eastern U.S. In contrast, dry weather will [Read More…]
Analyst: There’s a lot riding on the anticipated Trump-Xi meeting
Arlan Suderman, chief commodities analyst for INTL FCStone, says the next few weeks leading up to the anticipated meeting between President Trump and Chinese president Xi in Argentina, will probably determine if the trade war [Read More…]
Multiple children hit by car in Tampa, Florida: Police
iStock/Thinkstock(TAMPA, Fla.) — Multiple children were injured Thursday morning when they were struck by a vehicle in Tampa, Florida, according to police, the third traffic incident this week in the United States in which kids [Read More…]
Synagogue shooting suspect due in court as funerals continue for slain worshippers
iStock/Thinkstock(PITTSBURGH) — The man accused of massacring 11 Jews at a Pittsburgh synagogue is due to return to court Thursday as three of his alleged victims are laid to rest. Suspect Robert Bowers, 46, “made [Read More…]