Month: March 2022
Ag News
Canadian railroad work stoppage ends
The employees of the Canadian Pacific Railway are back on the job. The railroad announced early Tuesday they have reached an agreement with the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference to bring in an arbitrator to help [Read More…]
Ag News
$2 million awarded for farmland preservation programs
Two million dollars have been granted to Michigan farmland preservation efforts across the state. The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development and Michigan Agricultural Preservation Fund Board have announced seven grants this year will [Read More…]
Ag News
An Increasingly More Active Pattern to Return to the Heartland
Looking ahead, the 6- to 10-day outlook calls for the likelihood of near- or above-normal temperatures nationwide, except for cooler-than-normal conditions across Florida’s peninsula and from the Great Lakes region into the Northeast. Meanwhile, near- [Read More…]
Ag News
Celebration of Modern Ag helps highlight sustainable food production
Photo provided by the Association of Equipment Manufacturers The Celebration of Modern Agriculture on National Ag Day created an opportunity to connect policy makers and consumers with the role farmers play in today’s sustainable food [Read More…]
ABC National News
Tornado outbreak in Texas, Oklahoma kills one, injures at least 10
PBNJ Productions/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — At least three southern states were under a tornado watch Tuesday following an outbreak of twisters Monday night in Texas and Oklahoma that cut a path of destruction, killed [Read More…]
Weather
Red Flag Warning issued March 22 at 10:07AM MDT until March 22 at 6:00PM MDT by NWS
…RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA… * AFFECTED AREA…In South Dakota…Fire weather zones 050, 052, 057, 058, 059, [Read More…]
Weather
Red Flag Warning issued March 22 at 3:24AM MDT until March 22 at 6:00PM MDT by NWS
…RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITY FOR SOUTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA… The National Weather Service in Sioux Falls has [Read More…]
Ag News
Workshop to address conservation barriers, opportunities to improve profitability
Farmers will learn more about soil health, regenerative agriculture, and organic grain production during a Healthy Farms, Healthy Communities workshop tomorrow. Ashley Hammac is the president and soil scientist for Geosmin Agricultural Solutions, the event [Read More…]
Ag News
What farmers need to know about the carbon space
In our final video of this series, Brownfield’s Meghan Grebner visited with Mark Worner, an agronomist with Agoro Carbon Alliance at Commodity Classic to dig deeper into what farmers need to know about the carbon [Read More…]
Ag News
The value of the precision conservation management program
In this IL Corn Connection Greg Goodwin, IL Corn’s Director for the Precision Conservation Management Program, highlights how corn farmers’ checkoff dollars are being matched or exceeded to leverage more funds for on-farm conservation work [Read More…]
Ag News
Remote sensing for cover crop monitoring
Research funded by the Ohio Soybean Council is taking a closer look at the usefulness of satellite and drone-based imagery to estimate cover crop biomass and nutrient uptake efficiency. In this Voice of Soy – [Read More…]
Ag News
March is National Nutrition Month
National Nutrition Month is the annual campaign by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. It’s a month to encourage people to learn about making informed food choices and develop healthful eating and physical activity habits. [Read More…]
ABC World News
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Moscow responds to Biden on biological, chemical weapons
Andriy Dubchak / dia images via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Russian forces are continuing their attempted push through Ukraine from multiple directions, while Ukrainians, led by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, are putting up “stiff resistance,” [Read More…]
ABC World News
Prominent Putin critic Alexey Navalny sentenced to additional nine years
Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg via Getty Images (LONDON) — The jailed Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has been sentenced to an additional nine years, in a fresh trial roundly criticized by human rights organizations as politically motivated. [Read More…]
ABC World News
Doctors on Ukraine border say mental health is top medical priority
Robert Michael/picture alliance via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Since the war in Ukraine began, more than three million refugees have fled — by bus, train, car and foot — for neighboring countries. Some have [Read More…]
ABC World News
K-pop inspired food trucks help COVID-hit restaurants and children in need
ABC News (SEOUL, South Korea) — The scrumptious smell of shrimp patties and brioche buns cooking over a sizzling pan filled the air. Watermelon-shaped rice cake bars were piled up in one corner, iced tea [Read More…]
ABC World News
US recognizes Myanmar’s atrocities against Rohingya as ‘genocide’
Anadolu Agency/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. government has determined the attacks by Myanmar’s military against the Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic minority, constituted genocide and crimes against humanity, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Monday. [Read More…]
ABC National News
Injuries, damage reported from Texas tornado
PBNJ Productions/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Injuries have been reported and multiple homes and businesses are damaged after a tornado tore through Round Rock, Texas, Monday evening, according to the local fire and police departments. [Read More…]
ABC National News
Climate change exhibit opens at DC’s Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center (WASHINGTON) — A man submerged up to his chin in brown, murky floodwaters and a group of miners covered head to toe in black soot — these are a few of the [Read More…]
ABC National News
Firefighter injured in central Texas as wildfires rage on
Visoot Uthairam/Getty Images (HOOD COUNTY, Texas) — Extreme weather conditions are causing deadly wildfires across the country. A wildfire in central Texas that started over the weekend has burned over 11,000 acres and injured a [Read More…]