Month: September 2023
Ag News
Forage harvests slow to pick up
Forage crops are turning about better than expected despite Michigan’s drought at the beginning of the growing season. Michigan State University Extension forage educator Kim Cassida tells Brownfield silage harvest is a bit delayed. “Corn [Read More…]
Ag News
National Farmers Union Annual Convention
Anchor/Reporter Carah Hart will be in Scottsdale, Arizona March 10 – 12, 2014 covering the National Farmers Union Annual Convention. …
Ag News
Rain is coming
An agricultural meteorologist says a much-needed rain in the forecast for the Western Corn Belt. Drew Lerner with World Weather Incorporated says Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, Minnesota and other northern states will get [Read More…]
Ag News
Stockpiling forage while strip grazing
In this week’s Your Whole Farm Solution, a partnership with MFA and Brownfield Ag News, MFA’s Conservation Grazing Specialist Landry Jones has a few tips on how to stockpile forage while strip grazing cattle. … [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
“We need you”: Chris Pratt has a message to the younger generation in 9-11 remembrance speech
Getty Images for Marvel Studios On Monday evening, September 18, Chris Pratt reposted a speech he gave a week prior, as the keynote speaker for Pepperdine University’s remembrance ceremony on the 22nd anniversary of the [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Sherri Shepherd explains her show’s return amid WGA strike: “I stand in solidarity with my union”
ABC/Ron Batzdorff While other daytime talk shows have paused shortly after announcing their returns, Sherri Shepherd launched the second season of her syndicated show, Sherri, on Monday, September 18 as promised, and she opened the [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
In Brief: New ‘Quantum Leap’ trailer, and more
Dr. Ben Song encounters UFOs, Nazis, witches and spies as he continues his thrilling journey through time in the action-packed season 2 trailer for NBC’s Quantum Leap sequel, released on Monday, September 18. The new [Read More…]
Ag News
Missouri Soybeans’ Yield Contest
Missouri Soybeans Fields Services Coordinator Dylan Anderson urges farmers to enter the Missouri Soybeans’ Yield Contest. There is no committing specific acres until the harvest forms are due at the end of November. Entering the [Read More…]
Ag News
Nebraska farmer expects an average harvest
A South-Central Nebraska farmer says he expects his crops to perform better than most in his area because of spotty rain this summer. “It hung on better than I imagined they ever would.” Daren Niemeyer [Read More…]
Ag News
Smith: Needs of consumers, producers must strike balance in farm bill
Nebraska Congressman Adrian Smith says the next farm bill will likely reflect a balance of needs between producers and consumers. He tells Brownfield one example is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program because some lawmakers want [Read More…]
Ag News
The Mosaic Company latest to enter biologicals market
Another manufacturer of crop nutrition products is entering the biologicals market. Ross Bender is the director for new product development at The Mosaic Company and says just as agriculture is evolving, so too is how [Read More…]
Ag News
Ag land prices remain high
The land market remains competitive, and Paul Schadegg with Farmers National tells Brownfield farmers are dealing with high-Interest rates and high input costs, yet many are still doing whatever they can to buy land when [Read More…]
ABC World News
Moscow court declines to hear “WSJ” reporter Evan Gershkovich’s appeal on Russian detention
Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — The Wall Street Journal reporter detained in Russia appeared on Tuesday in Moscow City Court to appeal an August decision to extend his pre-trial detention, but was turned [Read More…]
ABC World News
Plane carrying five Americans freed from Iran lands in US
Handout (TEHRAN, Iran) — The plane carrying five American citizens freed as part of a deal between the U.S. and Iran has now landed back home in the United States. “They just landed on U.S. [Read More…]
ABC World News
Climate change one of the main factors that led to catastrophic flooding in Libya: Report
bgwalker/Getty Images (LONDON) — Climate change was one of the main factors that led to the catastrophic flooding in Libya, according to a new report. World Weather Attribution (WWA), a collaboration of scientists from all [Read More…]
ABC World News
UN revises death toll from Libya floods amid chaotic response on the ground
Karim Sahib/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The United Nations has revised its death toll from disastrous floods in eastern Libya after conflicting information from different government officials and aid agencies — a sign [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Biden to offer ‘full-throated’ defense of Ukraine at United Nations General Assembly, White House says
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (NEW YORK) — President Joe Biden will on Tuesday issue a defense of American leadership abroad and reiterate U.S. support for Ukraine, during a high-profile speech at the [Read More…]
ABC Sports News
Scoreboard roundup — 9/18/23
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Monday’s sports events: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL INTERLEAGUE LA Dodgers 8, Detroit 3 Cincinnati 7, Minnesota 3 Chi White Sox 6, Washington 1 AMERICAN LEAGUE Kansas City [Read More…]
ABC Business News
UAW president sets Friday deadline for more strike action unless ‘serious progress’ made
Bill Pugliano/Getty Images (DETROIT) — United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain said the union’s strike will expand if “serious progress” isn’t made in the contract negotiations with automakers by Friday. Fain said in a Monday [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Hundreds of flying taxis to be built in Ohio, governor announces
David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Society may be getting one step closer to the flying commuter vehicles made famous in the animated series The Jetsons, as Ohio just announced that hundreds [Read More…]