Month: March 2023
Ag News
Future of dairy consumption could lie with a love for butter and ice cream
A new report compares how population changes could impact future dairy demand. Senior dairy analyst Ben Laine with Terrain tells Brownfield by 2050, people 70 years and older will make up the largest segment of [Read More…]
ABC National News
‘Heroic’ security guards stop armed man in ‘devil mask’ from entering strip club: Police
Tampa Police Department (TAMPA, Fla.) — Three “heroic” security guards stopped an armed man from entering a Florida strip club and helped to avert a possible mass shooting, police said. In dramatic surveillance video released by [Read More…]
ABC National News
Sources: Special counsel claims Trump deliberately misled his attorneys about classified documents, judge wrote
Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Prosecutors in the special counsel’s office have presented compelling preliminary evidence that former President Donald Trump knowingly and deliberately misled his own attorneys about his retention of [Read More…]
ABC National News
8 dolphins dead after washing ashore on New Jersey beach
WPVI (SEA ISLE CITY, N.J.) — A pod of eight dolphins died after being stranded on two beaches in New Jersey on Tuesday, according to an animal rescue and rehabilitation center. The sea creatures washed up [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Biden teases 2024 bid, tells Bruce Springsteen ‘some people are born to run’
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday teased a 2024 run as he celebrated American legends Bruce Springsteen, Gladys Knight, Julia Louis Dreyfus and more in a White House ceremony. Biden bestowed medals [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Former Trump official calls TikTok a ‘digital virus’
ABC News (NEW YORK) — TikTok is facing growing scrutiny from government officials over cybersecurity fears about Americans’ data. U.S. officials are reportedly demanding that Chinese owners sell its stake in the app or risk a [Read More…]
ABC World News
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Several Ukrainian cities attacked with missiles
Anton Petrus/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than a year after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine, the countries are fighting for control of areas in eastern and southern Ukraine. [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Wisconsin Supreme Court candidates debate abortion access, gerrymandering
belterz/Getty Images (MADISON, Wis.) — The two candidates in Wisconsin’s crucial Supreme Court race met for their only debate Tuesday, debating hot-button issues such as abortion access and gerrymandering two weeks before voters will decide the [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
US lawmakers reintroduce e-bike tax credit bill offering up to a $1,500 refund
Westend61/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Federal lawmakers have reintroduced a bill that would give consumers a tax break on the purchase of a new electric bike. The Electric Bicycle Incentive Kickstart for the Environment (E-BIKE) Act would [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Biden creates national monuments in Nevada, Texas at conservation summit
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced the establishment of two new national monuments, protecting land totaling more than half a million acres. Biden named Avi Kwa Ame [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Potentially deadly fungus spreading rapidly in US health care facilities
KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — A recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed the fungus Candida auris is spreading rapidly through U.S. health care facilities. Also known as C. auris, [Read More…]
ABC Health News
What to know about the drug xylazine and why it’s making fentanyl worse
WLADIMIR BULGAR/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Drug Enforcement Administration is warning that a powerful veterinary sedative is being combined illicitly with fentanyl, making it even more dangerous. DEA issued a public safety alert about [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Oscar-nominated ‘Dune’ writer Jon Spaihts going to Netflix’s ‘Gears of War’ film
Johanna Watts – “Gears of War” courtesy Netflix Netflix announced Tuesday that Jon Spaihts, who wrote the 2016 Marvel Studios hit Doctor Strange, and received an Academy Award nomination for 2021’s Dune, will be behind [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Gwyneth Paltrow appears in Utah courtroom over 2016 skiing accident
ABC/Christopher Willard Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow found herself in a Utah courtroom Tuesday, in a civil trial stemming from a 2016 skiing accident. Paltrow is being sued by Dr. Terry Sanderson, who claims Paltrow collided [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Wanna live in Barbie’s Dream Home? HGTV announces new reality show tied to upcoming movie
ABC In a bit of corporate synergy, HGTV has announced the Barbie Dreamhouse Challenge, a new home design reality series timed to the release of Warner Bros. Discovery’s upcoming Barbie movie. The series will see [Read More…]
Ag News
Good infrastructure a must-have for Wisconsin farmers
Farmer Shane Goplin tells Brownfield the top issues affecting Wisconsin farmers are trade and infrastructure. “We need to be sustainable not only in producing our products, but getting it to the customer,” he says. “Having [Read More…]
Ag News
Farm Bill priorities for Iowa Corn
The Iowa Corn Growers Association has developed several policy priorities for the 2023 Farm Bill. District 6 Director Logan Lyon tells Brownfield Iowa corn farmers believe Congress should maintain premium offsets for harvest price coverage [Read More…]
Ag News
Hog futures continue downward slide
At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live cattle were mixed, and feeders were mostly higher ahead of the week’s direct cash business. Feeders found some additional support from the mostly lower move in corn. April live [Read More…]
Ag News
Farmland sales slowing in parts of the Midwest
Farmland sales are slowing in some parts of the Midwest. Compeer Financial senior appraiser Jeff Hacker covers east central Illinois into northwest Indiana and says there hasn’t been much activity recently. “I don’t know that [Read More…]
Ag News
Ag week is being celebrated in Missouri
Governor Mike Parson made a National Ag Week proclamation at the Missouri Department of Agriculture on Tuesday. “Agriculture is so important to our state, not only with the products produced, but it’s a way of [Read More…]