Month: November 2018
Ag News
86% of Ohio corn, 90% soybeans harvested
Wet and cool conditions kept farmers out of fields in Ohio last week. According to the latest USDA Crop and Weather Report, 86 percent of corn and 90 percent of soybeans are harvested. The winter [Read More…]
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Soybeans drop ahead of G20
Soybeans were sharply lower on commercial and technical selling. Beans are waiting for the start of the G20 summit Argentina, expecting at least some comment on the trade tensions between the U.S. and China. The [Read More…]
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Missing Ohio teen found in woods with gunshot wound to her head, authorities say
Google Map Street View(AKRON, Ohio) — An 18-year-old Ohio woman who has been missing for three weeks has been found dead with a gunshot wound to her head, authorities said. Akron resident Samantha Guthrie was [Read More…]
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Trump defends use of tear gas on migrants attempting to breach US-Mexico border
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump defended the use of tear gas by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents to push back Central American migrants who tried to breach the southern border. A day after hundreds [Read More…]
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Turkish police raid villas in rural village hoping to find Khashoggi remains
iStock/Thinkstock(ISTANBUL) — Turkish security forces raided two adjoining villas in an isolated area of western Turkey Monday morning as part of the ongoing investigation into the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. Police officials [Read More…]
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Weather leaves over 1,300 flights canceled on busy travel Monday
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Over 1,300 flights were canceled on this post-Thanksgiving Monday as a dangerous snowstorm tore through the Midwest before heading to the Northeast as rain. Airlines were forced to cancel over 1,200 flights [Read More…]
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NASA’s InSight lander touches down on Mars
ABCNews.com(HOUSTON) — NASA’s InSight lander landed on Mars Monday afternoon, finishing one journey — through space — and now launching on another: to go deeper into Mars. Scientists and engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab [Read More…]
Ag News
Nebraska ‘small acreage’ rancher is committed to conservation
Jim and Lora O’Rourke are the recipients of the 2018 Nebraska Leopold Conservation Award. The O’Rourkes own and operate RuJoDen Ranch in Chadron, Nebraska. In an interview with Brownfield, Jim O’Rourke said they’re proud to [Read More…]
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Brownfield members recognized at NAFB Convention
Several members of the Brownfield Ag News team were honored during the 75th Annual National Association of Farm Broadcasting (NAFB) Convention held in Kansas City, Missouri November 7 – 9, 2018. Brownfield farm broadcasters did [Read More…]
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U of IL: USMCA is NAFTA 1.01
A report by the University of Illinois Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics says the new USMCA -United States-Mexico-Canada-Agreement – is not very different from the North American Free Trade Agreement that it’s meant to [Read More…]
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Nikki Haley condemns ‘yet another reckless Russian escalation’ in first Trump admin remarks on rising tensions
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — One day after Russia fired on and seized three Ukrainian vessels in waters between the two countries, the U.S. is condemning Russia’s actions in its first remarks on the crisis amid new [Read More…]
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg returns to the bench after suffering fractured ribs
Alex Wong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was back on the bench Monday in time for the first oral arguments since she fell earlier this month and suffered three fractured ribs. Ginsburg, [Read More…]
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Eight-year-old shot in face, two teens wounded in potentially targeted attack: Police
WPVI(PHILADELPHIA) — An 8-year-old boy was shot on the right side of his face and two teenage boys were also wounded in a potentially targeted attack in Philadelphia, according to police. The triple shooting took [Read More…]
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Temps to vary as an active pattern resumes
A storm system currently crossing the lower Great Lakes region will drift northeastward before stalling near the Canadian Maritimes. As a result, much of the eastern U.S. will experience an extended period of cold, breezy [Read More…]
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Amazon adds real Christmas trees
This holiday season Amazon is selling real Christmas trees for the first time which the National Christmas Tree Association says will attract new customers. “What we see is it’s additive. What we think Amazon will [Read More…]
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Republican senators ask Trump to ratify USMCA this year
A dozen Republican lawmakers are asking President Trump to send the final text of the U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement to Congress, so it can be ratified this year. In a letter, the legislators say it [Read More…]
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Jury selection begins for trial of deadly Charlottesville car attacker James Alex Fields
Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail(CHARLOTESVILLE, Va.) — Lawyers in Virginia are working to pick the jury that will hear the case against James Alex Fields, the man who faces charges for ramming his car into a crowd [Read More…]
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Thirteenth century priest’s tomb discovered in Egypt’s Luxor
KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images(EGYPT) — A 13th century tomb belonging to a priest and his wife was found in Luxor, Egypt, after five months of excavation work, Egypt’s ministry of antiquities said Saturday. The tomb — [Read More…]
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General Motors to lay off 15 percent of workers, shutter 5 plants in North America
Danny Lehman/Corbis/VCG/Getty Images(DETROIT) — General Motors is laying off 15 percent of its salaried workers and shuttering five plants in North America, the Detroit automaker announced on Monday. The company said it was “transforming its [Read More…]
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All of the 145 pilot whales beached on a remote New Zealand beach have died
ABCNews.com(STEWART ISLAND, New Zealand) — )As many as 145 whales have died after a “heart-breaking” mass stranding on a remote island, the New Zealand Department of Conservation said on Monday. The whales were reported to [Read More…]