Month: May 2023
Ag News
American Farm Bureau wants more from milk hearing
The American Farm Bureau Federation is asking the USDA to hold a hearing on milk price reforms, and to consider changes that go beyond what is requested in two other hearing requests. Chief Economist Roger [Read More…]
Ag News
Chicago Fed reports strong farmland values
The Chicago Fed says farmland values increased 10 percent in the first quarter, but the rate of increase is softening. Policy advisor David Oppedahl tells Brownfield higher incomes, outside investors, and a desire to expand [Read More…]
ABC National News
Rasheem Carter’s family presses for justice as more possible remains found
Courtesy of Rasheem Carter’s family (NEW YORK) — A potential fourth set of remains that may belong to Rasheem Carter, a 25-year-old Black man who went missing in Mississippi in October, has been found and [Read More…]
ABC National News
Convicted serial killer Scott Kimball’s sons break silence 20 years after father’s killing spree
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Nearly two decades after authorities began connecting the dots to uncover the grisly truth behind four missing people linked to Scott Kimball, a Colorado FBI informant and serial killer, his [Read More…]
ABC National News
Lori Vallow Daybell found guilty in murder of her 2 children
Jason Marz/Getty Images (BOISE, Idaho) — A jury has found Lori Vallow Daybell guilty of killing two of her children in what prosecutors argued was a doomsday plot. She was also found guilty of conspiring [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Migrant child has died in US custody, White House confirms
Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — According to Honduras’ Minister of Foreign Affairs Eduardo Enrique Reina, 17-year-old Honduran minor Ángel Eduardo Maradiaga Espinoz died in a shelter located in Safety Harbor, Florida. “The [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Corinne Foxx shares update on dad Jamie Foxx’s health, says he’s been “out of the hospital for weeks”
ABC Corinne Foxx is sharing a surprising update on her dad, Jamie Foxx‘s, health. The actress, 29, took to her Instagram Story on Friday to share an “update from the family” regarding the Ray actor, [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
12 Fast 12 Furious? Vin Diesel says ‘Fast’ movies won’t end with 11 after all
Universal In a surprise, Vin Diesel let slip during a red carpet interview that the already long-lived Fast and Furious franchise will not end with an upcoming 11th installment. The series that began in 2001, [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Smells like $20 million: Johnny Depp sets record for biggest perfume payday with Dior deal
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Johnny Depp and Dior are staying in business together, in a deal Variety says is a record for a fragrance endorsement. Dior is reportedly re-upping his contract with the star, to whom [Read More…]
Ag News
Survey: farmers more optimistic about farmland values in the next year
Farmers are slightly more optimistic farmland values will improve in the next 12 months, according to the latest Purdue University/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer. Jim Mintert, the survey’s principal investigator, says the short-term farmland value [Read More…]
Ag News
National Pork Producers consider next steps for Prop 12
The National Pork Producers Council says all options are being considered to address Proposition 12 before the law goes into effect this summer. The U.S. Supreme Court has decided to uphold the California law banning [Read More…]
Ag News
Lawmakers ask to open fresh potato markets in Japan
A bipartisan and bicameral group of lawmakers want U.S. fresh potato market access in Japan. Head of the National Potato Council Kam Quarles tells Brownfield the Japanese market represents tremendous growth for growers. “You’re talking [Read More…]
Ag News
Planting progress varies for Hoosier farmers
A farmer in west central Indiana says soybean planting is nearly complete. Paul Hodgen raises corn, soybeans, and wheat in Putnam County. “We have about 200 soybeans acres left to go and about half the [Read More…]
Ag News
Boozman: President Biden backs an on-time farm bill
The Ranking Member of the Senate Committee says President Biden is committed to supporting and passing the 2023 Farm Bill on time. Speaking with reporters after a meeting with the President, Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack, [Read More…]
ABC National News
Daniel Penny, man accused of choking subway rider Jordan Neely, released on bond
Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former U.S. Marine Daniel Penny turned himself in to New York City police on Friday in connection with the chokehold death of Jordan Neely aboard a subway train. Penny, [Read More…]
ABC National News
Scientists confirm meteorite crash-landed into New Jersey home
Hopewell Township Police Department (NEW YORK) — A New Jersey family made an out-of-this-world discovery this week. After a mysterious black rock was found in a Trenton-area home that had apparently damaged the ceiling and [Read More…]
ABC Business News
New Twitter CEO will be Linda Yaccarino, Elon Musk says
Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Ex-NBCUniversal advertising executive Linda Yaccarino will take over as CEO of Twitter, Elon Musk said on Friday. Musk, who runs Tesla and Space X, said a [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Playing Mantis: Pom Klementieff on her “weird” character, the “glue” that holds the Guardians of the Galaxy together
Marvel Studios Model and actress Pom Klementieff has played Mantis, the quirky alien empath in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, since 2017’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. But in a universe full of hammer-wielding gods and [Read More…]
Ag News
Soybean researcher says not to plant too far ahead of the sprayer this year
A University of Wisconsin soybean specialist says with delays in planting, the weeds can potentially get ahead of the crops, so farmers shouldn’t plant too far ahead of the sprayer. Shawn Conley tells Brownfield that [Read More…]
Ag News
Winter wheat crop up on year, but changes likely
The USDA sees a bigger winter wheat crop this year with larger acreage canceling out a smaller yield. Production is currently expected to be 1.13 billion bushels, 2% more than last year, with a 21% [Read More…]