Year: 2018
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Planting pace varies widely across Minnesota
In its latest crop progress report, the USDA says corn farmers worked around scattered thunderstorms late last week to bring planting to 40 percent complete. However, Lawrence Sukalski says his farm in Martin County has [Read More…]
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Some Minnesota farmers starting to think about crop failures
A frustratingly small window for fieldwork has some farmers in southern Minnesota preparing for crop failures. Lawrence Sukalski grows corn and soybeans in south-central Minnesota near the Iowa border. He says in four decades of [Read More…]
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Conditions in north-central Iowa look more like early April than mid-May
A north-central Iowa farmer behind on planting says conditions resemble early April rather than mid-May. Wayne Fredericks of Osage is a strip and no-till corn and soybean grower who uses cover crops. He tells Brownfield [Read More…]
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Nebraska planting moves ahead
As of Sunday, 72 percent of Nebraska’s corn crop was planted, slight ahead of the five-year average, with 41 percent of soybeans in the ground, also ahead of normal. Winter wheat condition rated 64 percent [Read More…]
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Big spread in Iowa’s planting progress
The pace of corn planting in Iowa varies widely, from 91 percent complete in the southeast to 26 percent in north-central Iowa. Overall, the state’s corn crop is 65 percent planted, up from 40 percent [Read More…]
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Staff at Windsor Castle make final preparations for royal wedding
Stockbyte/Thinkstock(WINDSOR, England) — This week marks the final countdown for the team of royal chefs and staff at Windsor Castle, who are meticulously preparing a lavish evening for hundreds of guests at Prince Harry and [Read More…]
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Death of 22-year-old Louisiana man in police custody ruled homicide
iStock/Thinkstock(JEFFERSON PARISH, La.) — The death of a 22-year-old black man who died in police custody in Louisiana has been ruled a homicide. Keevan Robinson died last week after he was apprehended by detectives of [Read More…]
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CME milk futures higher, cash dairy mixed Monday
Milk futures were higher and the cash dairy markets were mixed Monday at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Class Three May milk was up $.01 at $15.24 a hundredweight. June was up $.23 to $16.09. July [Read More…]
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Missouri A-G leads brief supporting organic rule withdrawal
A friend of the court brief has been filed by 14 state Attorneys General supporting the repeal of the Obama Administrations’ organic livestock and poultry practices rule. Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley says the 2017 [Read More…]
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Good Samaritan tackles suspect who attacked elderly women on Mother’s Day
WABC(NEW YORK) — A good Samaritan was captured on camera taking down a man who assaulted two women Sunday. Surveillance video from outside a shop in Brownsville, New York, shows two elderly women walking down [Read More…]
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‘Golden State Killer’ victims, family members face suspect in courtroom
Sacramento Police Department(LOS ANGELES) — “Golden State Killer” survivors, as well as family members of slain victims, faced the 72-year-old suspected serial rapist and killer in court today. Joseph DeAngelo was arrested in the cold [Read More…]
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House plans ’18 Farm Bill vote this week
The Farm Bill is a top priority in the U.S. House of Representatives this week. Ag Committee Chairman Michael Conaway worked all weekend trying to round up support from other Republicans. The House Rules Committee [Read More…]
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Soybean, wheat export inspections up on week
The USDA reports that as of the week ending May 14th, sorghum export inspections remain ahead of the USDA’s anticipated pace for the 2017/18 marketing year. The current marketing year runs through the end [Read More…]
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US, China working together ahead of trade talks
The next round of trade talks with China will continue tomorrow in DC. Tensions have been high since both countries announced tariffs on 50 billion dollars worth of goods, and President Trump proposed an additional [Read More…]
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‘Things that can go wrong’ to prevent crop emergence
There are many factors that can keep a crop from breaking ground, including everything from low temperature to disease to herbicide injury. “There can be a lot of different things that can go wrong,” said [Read More…]
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12 Islamist terror plots thwarted in the UK since March 2017, says spy chief
iStock/Thinkstock(LONDON) — Authorities have thwarted 12 Islamist terror plots in the United Kingdom since the Westminster attack in March 2017, bringing the total number of foiled attacks in the country since 2013 to 25, the [Read More…]
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When Trump ‘makes a promise, he keeps it,’ Kushner says as Jerusalem embassy opens amid protests
Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images(JERUSALEM) — The U.S. today officially opened its new embassy in Jerusalem amid massive protests by Palestinians.The move comes five months after President Donald Trump made his blockbuster announcement in December that the [Read More…]
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US embassy opens in Jerusalem amid massive protests by Palestinians in Gaza
Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images(JERUSALEM) — The U.S. today officially opened its new embassy in Jerusalem amid massive protests by Palestinians. The move of the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem comes five months after President [Read More…]
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Nanny who stabbed two children to death will be sentenced
WABC(NEW YORK) — A New York City nanny who murdered two young children in her care is set to be sentenced Monday. Yoselyn Ortega had worked for Marina and Kevin Krim for two years when [Read More…]
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Death toll in massive Palestinian protests climbs to at least 37, bloodiest day in Gaza since 2014 war
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — At least 41 people have been killed by the Israeli military and more than 1,700 injured in Palestinian protests today along the Gaza border as the U.S. officially moves its embassy from [Read More…]