Month: August 2019
New Orleans TV reporter Nancy Parker dies in stunt plane crash during filming
iStock(NEW ORLEANS) — A TV reporter for the local Fox affiliate in New Orleans was killed on Friday when the stunt plane she was filming a piece in crashed near Lakefront Airport. Nancy Parker, 53, [Read More…]
Prosecutors seek additional indictment against Harvey Weinstein
Marilyn Nieves/iStock(NEW YORK) — The Manhattan District Attorney’s office has presented the criminal case against Harvey Weinstein to a grand jury for a second time to include testimony from a one-time Sopranos actress, new court [Read More…]
Long and Peterson teaming up on ag issues
Southwest Missouri Congressman Billy Long recently came back from Brazil with House Ag Committee chairman Collin Peterson who will join Long next Friday on a tour of farms in Long’s district. In the case of [Read More…]
Suspect surrenders after shooting 2 officers serving eviction notice
vmargineanu/iStock(VAN BUREN, Mo.) — A Missouri man who shot two police officers while they were serving him an eviction notice surrendered to authorities Friday afternoon after a long standoff. The suspect shot a Missouri Highway [Read More…]
Flood Statement issued August 16 at 9:04AM MDT until August 16 at 7:30PM MDT by NWS
…The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in Nebraska…South Dakota… Missouri River Near Greenwood Missouri River Near Verdel Missouri River At Niobrara Missouri River At Springfield
Troike: USDA estimates negatively impacting ag
Ceres Solutions Cooperative CEO Jeff Troike says he was disappointed in the latest USDA latest crop estimates. “When you do talk about the other people in the Midwest, no one seems like there having [Read More…]
Hogs, cattle futures slide into the weekend
At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live cattle futures ended the day lower in limited trade volume on the weak cash trade and demand concerns. Feeder cattle futures closed lower on the same factors with added [Read More…]
Fordyce says MFP2 on track
Farm Service Agency Administrator Richard Fordyce says the MFP2 payments are on schedule to go out as soon as next week, “Sign-up began a week ago last Monday and we’ve had overwhelming, as you can [Read More…]
Brownfield interviews steer winners at State Fair
All their hard work paid off for the Grand and Reserve Grand Champion steer exhibitors at this year’s Missouri State Fair. Gage Baker is from Fulton, a member of the Rising Sun 4-H Club. His [Read More…]
Man flew in plane’s cargo hold from Havana to Miami: CBP
Obtained by ABC News(MIAMI) — A 26-year-old Cuban man who stowed away in the cargo hold of a flight from Havana to Miami was arrested Friday morning by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. “CBP received [Read More…]
Jeffrey Epstein’s death ruled suicide by hanging, medical examiner says
MivPiv/iStock(NEW YORK) — New York City’s medical examiner has ruled Jeffrey Epstein’s death in a Manhattan jail cell suicide by hanging. The disgraced financier, who was facing federal sex trafficking charges, was found unresponsive in [Read More…]
Massive crowds at airports across US after delays from nationwide customs outage
Placebo365/iStock(NEW YORK) — Travelers are facing significant lines at airports across the country from what U.S. Customs and Border Protection is calling a “temporary outage” with its processing systems. According to a CBP statement, the [Read More…]
Tyson Foods recalls 39,000 pounds of frozen chicken patties possibly contaminated with ‘foreign matter’
Tyson Foods, Inc.(NEW YORK) — Tyson Foods, Inc. is voluntarily recalling approximately 39,078 pounds of frozen chicken patties over concerns the products were possibly contaminated with “extraneous materials,” according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. [Read More…]
Latest North Korea launch unlikely to break stalemate in US diplomatic talks
MicroStockHub/iStock(NEW YORK) — North Korea fired two short-range projectiles into the Sea of Japan early Friday morning according to South Korea’s military, marking North Korea’s sixth round of short-range missile testing in less than a [Read More…]
Family of mom charged after her toddler is killed by a car calls for charges against driver
Obtained by KTRK-TV(HOUSTON) — The family of a Houston mother who is facing child endangerment charges after a car driven by someone else struck and killed her toddler is calling for the driver to be [Read More…]
Jeffrey Epstein’s death ruled suicide by hanging, source says
MivPiv/iStock(NEW YORK) — Accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s death in a Manhattan jail cell was ruled suicide by hanging, New York City’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has concluded, a source familiar with the [Read More…]
Schnitkey doubts corn yields can reach USDA estimate
University of Illinois farm management specialist Gary Schnitkey expects 2019 corn yields to be lower than USDA’s latest forecast of nearly 170 bushels per acre. “I think that number could go down. And you’ve got [Read More…]
Hemp Harvest Festival
Brownfield Anchor/Reporter Meghan Grebner will be on the ground in Winchester, Kentucky on Saturday, October 5, 2019 for the Hemp Harvest Festival. Continue reading Hemp Harvest Festival at Brownfield Ag News.
SEMO research into new rice strains
A Missouri research team is working to create new heat-tolerant and herbicide resistant rice strains. Dr. Christian DeGuzman, rice breeder with Southeast Missouri State University, says rice yields declined several years ago because of extreme [Read More…]
Minnesota State Fair confident in livestock disease prevention
The Minnesota State Fair is confident its protocols are enough to prevent the introduction of African swine fever. Several Midwestern states, including Iowa, have implemented additional swine health inspection requirements because of the threat of [Read More…]