Year: 2019
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TSA staffing shortages hit nation’s busiest airports amid government shutdown
David Tran/iStock(WASHINGTON) — Transportation Security Administration officials are closing more security lanes amid increased callouts from officers not being paid during the government shutdown. The absence rate at TSA on Monday is 7.6 percent, up [Read More…]
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Suspect who allegedly took 2 women hostage at UPS facility in New Jersey died on the scene: Officials
WPVI-TV(LOGAN TOWNSHIP, N.J.) — The suspect who allegedly took two women hostage at a UPS facility in southern New Jersey Monday morning died on the scene, according to officials. A shooting occurred outside the UPS [Read More…]
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Chilling details emerge in Jayme Closs kidnapping
Courtesy Lindsey Smith (BARRON, Wisc.) — The suspect charged in the kidnapping of Wisconsin girl Jayme Closs and killing her parents in cold blood confessed to investigators that he targeted the 13-year-old after seeing her [Read More…]
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Canadian air traffic controllers sending support in the form of pizzas to US counterparts during government shutdown
Courtesy of the Canadian Air Traffic Control Association(NEW YORK) — Canadian air traffic controllers are really leaning in to the stereotypical niceness associated with our neighbors to the north. As a show of solidarity, a [Read More…]
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Traveler was able to get a firearm through a TSA security checkpoint and onto an international flight
TennesseePhotographer/iStock(NEW YORK) — As concerns about the possible impacts of the government shutdown on airport screening grow, a passenger got a gun through the country’s busiest airport and onto an international flight in his carry-on [Read More…]
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U.S. & Europe have different trade goals
U.S. and European Union officials are at odds over whether agricultural issues should be included in trade talks. The U.S. Trade Representative’s office has made it clear they want to reduce or eliminate tariffs on [Read More…]
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Cooperatives Working Together offers export assistance
Cooperatives Working Together is helping provide export assistance for another 28 cheese and whole milk powder export contracts. The industry-funded program announced sales for nearly four and a half million pounds of Cheddar, Monterey Jack, [Read More…]
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CME futures down, cash dairy mixed Monday. GDT Tuesday
Milk futures were sharply down and cash dairy prices were mixed on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Monday. January Class Three milk was unchanged at $14.07. February was down $.19 at $14.30. March was down $.13 [Read More…]
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Lack of information is a battle
The government shutdown is not the longest on record and a livestock economist says the lack of information puts US livestock producers at a disadvantage. In this Managing for Profit, Scott Brown talks about [Read More…]
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Two women freed after being taken hostage at UPS facility in New Jersey: Prosecutor
WPVI-TV(LOGAN TOWNSHIP, N.J.) — Two women have been rescued after they were taken hostage by a man at a UPS facility in southern New Jersey Monday morning, according to the local prosecutor. The women, both [Read More…]
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Man accused of kidnapping Wisconsin girl and killing her parents appears in court
Courtesy Lindsey Smith (BARRON, Wisc.) — The suspect charged in the kidnapping of Wisconsin girl Jayme Closs and killing her parents confessed to investigators that he targeted the 13-year-old after seeing her board her school [Read More…]
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Book of the Year author’s prior ag connection was drinking cranberry juice
The American Farm Bureau Foundation’s Book of the Year winner is Lisl Detlefsen for “Right This Very Minute.” The book explains to children how every minute of every day, someone is working to bring food [Read More…]
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Illinois dicamba label in the hands of new Director of Agriculture
A federal dicamba label is in place, but an Illinois weed scientist says pursuing a state label will be in the hands of the newly appointed administration at the state department of agriculture. Aaron Hager [Read More…]
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Some U.S. soybeans are headed to China
The USDA says corn, soybean, and wheat export inspections for the week ending January 10th showed signs of improvement. The current marketing year runs through the end of May for wheat and the end of [Read More…]
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Ag economist says U.S.-China could reach deal by March 1
An ag economist says he thinks the U.S. and China could come to an agreement by March first. Purdue University’s Wally Tyner says it’s in the interest of both countries to reach a deal soon. [Read More…]
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CEO of California utility PG&E resigns as firm faces liability over wildfires
David Tran/iStock(LOS ANGELES) — California’s largest utility company said on Sunday its chief executive had resigned as the firm faces billions of dollars in potential liabilities tied to the state’s deadly and destructive wildfires last [Read More…]
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Indonesian divers recover recorder from Lion Air plane that crashed into Java Sea
AZWAR IPANK/AFP/Getty Images(JAKARTA, Indonesia) — Indonesian Navy divers recovered a cockpit voice recorder from a missing Lion Air plane that crashed into the Java Sea in October, killing all 189 people on board, officials said [Read More…]
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Family members describe moment they discovered Jayme Closs was safe
Courtesy Jennifer Smith(NEW YORK) — Robert Naiberg said he could barely speak when police called to tell him that his granddaughter, 13-year-old Jayme Closs, had been found. “I was overwhelmed. I couldn’t talk,” Naiberg said [Read More…]
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Teachers in Los Angeles set to strike as negotiations stall
DONGSEON_KIM/iStock(LOS ANGELES) — Teachers in the nation’s second-largest school district have announced they’re going on strike Monday. United Teachers Los Angeles said negotiations have stalled and that the union didn’t receive a new contract proposal [Read More…]
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Duvall sees more heavy lifting in 2019
The president of the American Farm Bureau Federation says the farm organization accomplished a lot in 2018, but he says there’s more to be done in the coming year. Zippy Duvall used his annual address [Read More…]