Month: January 2024

LMPC via Getty Images The earliest iteration of Mickey Mouse has just entered public domain, and there’s already a new trailer for a non-Disney film using the character. Animated shorts Steamboat Willie and Plane Crazy entered public domain at [Read More…]

In Brief: Shecky Greene dies, George R.R. Martin gives an update, and more

Legendary Las Vegas stand-up comic Shecky Greene died Sunday, December 31 of natural causes at his home in Las Vegas. His wife Miriam Musso Greene confirmed the news to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. He was [Read More…]

A closer look at foreign ag land ownership in United States

A recent USDA report says foreign-owned ag land in the United States increased slightly in 2022. Danny Munch, an economist with the American Farm Bureau Federation, says the biggest increases happened in forestland across Alabama, [Read More…]

Improved conditions in South America weigh on U.S. markets

A market analyst says the improved weather in the dry crop growing areas of South America isn’t helping U.S. grain and oilseed prices as the New Year begins. But Don Roose with U.S. Commodities tells [Read More…]

Export inspections mostly lower on week, year

The USDA says corn, soybean, and wheat export inspections during the week ending December 28th, 2023 were slower than what’s needed to meet projections for the current marketing year. The 2023/24 marketing got underway June [Read More…]

Global Dairy Trade index up to start new year

The Global Dairy Trade index rose 1.2% in the first trading session of the new year Tuesday. It’s the third straight trading event with a rise in the index. The average price was $3,363 dollars [Read More…]

IRFA says carbon capture projects will unlock full potential of sustainable aviation fuel

The executive director of the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association says sustainable aviation fuel could become the largest new market in the history of agriculture. Monte Shaw tells Brownfield, “We created a 14-billion-gallon a year market [Read More…]

Tragic Shooting in Sacramento: 10-Year-Old Fatally Shot by 53-Year-Old Father’s Child with Stolen Gun

In Sacramento County, California, a 10-year-old boy retrieved a stolen gun from his father’s car and fatally shot another child, identified as Keith “KJ” Frierson. The incident led to the arrest of the boy’s father, [Read More…]

Man dies when transport vehicle crashes through ice on Minnesota lake

A passenger died after a commercial transport vehicle crashed through the ice on a Minnesota lake. Meanwhile, state officials are warning people to be wary of ice that is unusually thin for this time of [Read More…]

Restriction on carrying guns in Omaha and Lincoln violate Nebraska law, lawsuits say

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska’s two largest cities are violating a new state gun law by prohibiting them from public places such as parks, according to two recent lawsuits. The Liberty Justice Center filed lawsuits [Read More…]

US women are stocking up on abortion pills, especially when there is news about restrictions

Thousands of women stocked up on abortion pills just in case they needed them, new research shows, with demand peaking in the past couple years at times when it looked like the medications might become [Read More…]

Michael Penix Jr. leads Washington to 37-31 win over Texas in the Sugar Bowl

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The remarkable comeback story of Michael Penix Jr. is a victory away from a perfect ending for Washington. Penix passed for 430 yards and two touchdowns, and the Huskies held off [Read More…]

Ken Jennings talks “intense” ‘Celebrity Jeopardy!’ semifinals

ABC/Eric McCandless Celebrity Jeopardy! returns this week with the first of the semifinal rounds, featuring Ghost’s Utkarsh Ambudkar, Oscar winner Mira Sorvino and Abbot Elementary’s Lisa Ann Walter. Early rounds of the show felt a little looser than what you’d see on syndicated Jeopardy!, and host Ken [Read More…]

Jeremy Renner pays respect to staff at Reno Hospital 1 year after his snowplow accident

Allen Berezovsky/Getty Images Jeremy Renner showed his deepest gratitude to those who helped him during his near-fatal snowplow accident one year after the incident. In an Instagram post on Friday, the two-time Academy Award-nominated actor [Read More…]

The Mega Impact of Micronutrients

In this week’s Soil Health Hotline, a partnership with Sound Agriculture and Brownfield Ag News, Sound Agriculture Senior Agronomist Jessica Pupo explains the impact of micronutrients to the soil. …

A far more active weather pattern for the Heartland set to resume later this week

A generally quiet weather pattern across much of the country will become suddenly more active as the week progresses. Initially, storminess will increase by the middle of the week in the Pacific Coast States, with [Read More…]

Quiet, seasonally comfortable weather pattern covers much of the Heartland

Across the Corn Belt, mild, dry weather prevails. Despite patchy snow on the ground, many Midwestern producers continue to perform farm-maintenance activities, amid relatively dry soil-moisture profiles and near- or above-normal temperatures. Tuesday’s Midwestern temperatures [Read More…]

Japan Airlines plane bursts into flames at Tokyo airport with 379 people on board, all escape

This photo provided by Jiji Press shows a Japan Airlines plane on fire on a runway of Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on Jan. 2, 2024. (STR/JIJI PRESS/AFP via Getty Images) (TOKYO) — A Japan Airlines plane [Read More…]

‘Loud explosions’ in Kyiv as Russia again strikes capital, US ambassador says

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (KYIV, Ukraine) — Russia launched an attack on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities early Tuesday, continuing its escalated large-scale attacks on residential areas, local officials said. Air raid sirens in Kyiv began to [Read More…]

Aftershocks rattle Japan as death toll rises after powerful earthquake