Month: July 2019
Ag News
USDA: cattle inventory steady, calf crop down
The USDA’s cattle inventory numbers point to a modest industry contraction later this year. The USDA estimates this year’s calf crop at 36.3 million head, down slightly from 2018, with all cows and heifers that [Read More…]
Ag News
Closing Grain and Livestock Futures: July 19, 2019
Sep. corn closed at $4.30 and 3/4, up 6 and 1/4 centsAug. soybeans closed at $9.01 and 1/2, up 20 and 1/4 centsAug. soybean meal closed at $311.20, up $4.20Aug. soybean oil closed at 28.10, [Read More…]
Ag News
ADAI’s 30th annual ice cream social benefits Second Helpings
The American Dairy Association of Indiana has hosted an ice cream social for the past three decades with all proceeds benefiting a nonprofit organization. This year the event benefited Second Helpings, an organization that reduces [Read More…]
News
Restaurant near where Trump held rally is donating its profits to help immigrants
iStock(GREENVILLE, N.C.) — A Greenville, North Carolina, restaurant near the site of President Donald Trump’s Wednesday rally plans to donate all of its profits from that day to a non-profit immigration advocacy group. “One hundred [Read More…]
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El Paso Police: 29-year-old Texas mom Erika Gaytan missing after date, ‘could be in danger’
iStock(EL PASO, Texas) — A 29-year-old Texas mother who went missing after she went on a date last weekend “could be in danger,” relatives and police said. Erika Gaytan, of El Paso, was last seen [Read More…]
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Trump says White House is helping rapper ASAP Rocky, who is being held in Sweden without charges
Christian Vierig/Getty Images(STOCKHOLM) — President Donald Trump spoke out for the first time Friday about the case of rapper A$AP Rocky, who has been held in a Swedish jail for more than two weeks without [Read More…]
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German Chancellor Merkel expresses ‘solidarity’ with freshman lawmakers after Trump attack
Omer Messinger/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized President Donald’s Trump’s comments that four Democratic congresswomen should “go back” to where they came from, saying the idea “contradicts America’s strength,” and expressed “solidarity [Read More…]
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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps seizes British-flagged tanker in Strait of Hormuz
iStock(NEW YORK) — A British-flagged oil tanker traveling through the Strait of Hormuz has been seized by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, according to the tanker’s owner and the guard corps. “Stena Impero … was [Read More…]
Ag News
Report: Large loans drive further increases in farm lending
A new report compiled by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City shows the volume of non-real estate farm loans in the second quarter of this year increased 11 percent over last year. That’s the [Read More…]
Ag News
Strong growth in the biobased products industry
At the recent BIO World Congress in Des Moines, we received an update on the growth of the U.S. biobased products industry from Kate Lewis, deputy program manager for USDA’s BioPreferred Program. AUDIO: Kate Lewis [Read More…]
Ag News
Bustos creates Congressional Crop Insurance Caucus
Illinois Congresswoman Cheri Bustos has formed a bipartisan caucus to educate Members of Congress on crop insurance programs. “We know the need for that because as I travel all around our congressional district and meet [Read More…]
Ag News
Soil health expert promotes benefits of fresh soil ‘probiotics’
Paul Zorner, CEO of Locus Ag Solutions (photo courtesy Locus Ag Solutions) The recent BIO World Congress in Des Moines gave ag-related startup companies a chance to pitch their products to potential investors. Paul Zorner [Read More…]
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These 5 statistics show why we’re experiencing historically hot weather
yokeetod/iStock(NEW YORK) — You’re not imagining it: This summer has been a really hot one. Last month was the hottest June ever, according to a new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration — [Read More…]
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Julián Castro calls on Puerto Rico governor to resign as mass protests take over San Juan
JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — As tensions rise in San Juan, Puerto Rico following reports of controversial leaked group chats between Gov. Ricardo Roselló and a number of his advisers and Cabinet members, former Obama administration [Read More…]
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Outdoor Voices CEO Ty Haney announces she is pregnant
Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Entrepreneur Ty Haney, the founder and CEO of Outdoor Voices, is pregnant with a baby girl! Haney, 30, is expecting her first child with her fiance Mark Wystrach, and is [Read More…]
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Neutrogena recalls light therapy masks for risk of eye damage
jfmdesign/iStock(NEW YORK) — Neutrogena has recalled its popular Light Therapy Acne Mask citing a “theoretical risk of eye injury” “For a small subset of the population with certain underlying eye conditions, as well as for [Read More…]
Weather
Heat Advisory issued July 19 at 10:17AM MDT until July 19 at 7:00PM MDT by NWS
…HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING… * HEAT INDEX VALUES…Up to 105 due to temperatures in the mid 90s, and dewpoints in the mid 70s. * TIMING…This afternoon and early [Read More…]
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American citizen charged with becoming ISIS ’emir’: Authorities
Zolnierek/iStock(NEW YORK) — An American citizen who allegedly traveled to Syria and became a sniper and weapons instructor for ISIS has been charged by federal authorities with supporting the terrorist organization, prosecutors said Friday. Ruslan [Read More…]
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American citizen charged with becoming ISIS ’emir’: Authorities
Zolnierek/iStock(NEW YORK) — An American citizen who allegedly traveled to Syria and became a sniper and weapons instructor for ISIS has been charged by federal authorities with supporting the terrorist organization, prosecutors said Friday. Ruslan [Read More…]
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American citizen charged with allegedly joining ISIS: Authorities
Zolnierek/iStock(NEW YORK) — An American citizen who allegedly became an ISIS sniper and weapons instructor has been charged by federal authorities with helping the terrorist organization, prosecutors said Friday. Ruslan Maratovich Asainov, a naturalized U.S. [Read More…]