Month: February 2024
Ag News
Carbon pipeline bills move through SD Legislature
The South Dakota House passed a bill on Wednesday that would make it easier for the Summit Carbon Pipeline to move forward and some state agriculture groups are responding positively. Senate Bill 201 sets new [Read More…]
Ag News
Wheat growers ask USDA for more consistency in rewarding climate-smart ag
The National Association of Wheat Growers want USDA to adopt more consistent standards as farmers are incentivized for planting cover crops in regenerative ag programs. CEO Chandler Goule says harvesting wheat disqualifies farmers from accessing [Read More…]
Ag News
Using a Soil Test as a Road Map
Soil testing is a critical starting point for growers developing a crop nutrition plan. On this week’s episode of Managing for Profit, an agronomy expert with AgroLiquid says a soil test provides a baseline of [Read More…]
ABC National News
Illinois, Florida, California saw largest increase in abortions in first 15 months after Roe v. Wade
Paul Weaver/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Illinois, Florida and California had the largest total increases in the number of abortions performed in the first 15 months after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned [Read More…]
ABC National News
Person of interest images released as police investigate explosive left at Alabama attorney general’s office
FBI/ALEA (MONTGOMERY, Ala.) — Authorities on Wednesday released images of an unknown person of interest as they investigate an explosive device left outside the Alabama attorney general’s office. The device was detonated outside the AG’s [Read More…]
ABC National News
Why the Texas Panhandle is seeing such explosive wildfires right now
Texas A&M Forest Service via Getty Images (AMARILLO, Texas) — Multiple fires are impacting the Texas Panhandle, including what has quickly grown to become the second-largest wildfire in Texas history. Gov. Greg Abbott declared a [Read More…]
Local, Regional and National Sport stories
DWU Woman Advance with Road Win at Northwestern
Orange City, Iowa – Dakota Wesleyan took care of business on the road beating the No. 4 seed Northwestern Red Raiders 80-68. The (RV) Tigers opened the contest with a 9-0 run and never looked back [Read More…]
ABC World News
More than 570,000 people in Gaza are ‘one step away from famine’: UN official
Dawoud Abo Alkas/Anadolu via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than 570,000 people in Gaza are on the brink of experiencing famine levels of hunger amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, according to a United Nations [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Deal reached to avoid partial government shutdown Friday
Kent Nishimura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House and Senate leaders on Wednesday reached a bipartisan deal to avert a partial government shutdown ahead of Friday’s looming deadline. Under the terms of the deal, the House is [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Supreme Court to hear Trump’s appeal for presidential immunity, further delaying Jan. 6 trial
Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court has agreed to hear Donald Trump’s appeal of a unanimous lower court decision rejecting his claims of sweeping presidential immunity in the face of a special counsel [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Supreme Court divided over ban on rapid-fire rifle bump stocks
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared open to upholding a Trump-era ban on bump stocks as devices that turn weapons into rapid-fire illegal “machine guns,” however it was not clear that [Read More…]
Latest News
200,000 comments submitted on Dakota Access Pipeline environmental review
Amy Dalrymple, North Dakota Monitor The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers received 200,000 comments on the Dakota Access Pipeline, with 30,000 that were unique and substantive, an official said Wednesday. Assistant Secretary of the Army [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Jake Gyllenhaal insists ‘Road House’ remake was always meant to stream on Prime Video
Prime Video/Laura Radford A little more than a month after Road House remake director Doug Liman said he “signed up to make a theatrical motion picture for MGM” only to have it instead head exclusively [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Comedian and ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ star Richard Lewis dead at 76
HBO/John P. Johnson Stand-up comedian and actor Richard Lewis has died, ABC Audio has confirmed. Lewis, a fixture on the stand-up comedy scene in the ’70s and ’80s, who also appeared in comedies like Robin [Read More…]
Ag News
Ernst questions Vilsack on Administration’s year-round E15 plans
An Iowa Senator wants to know when Midwestern motorists can expect to find more E15 fuel on the market. Republican Joni Ernst told the Senate Ag Committee’s USDA Oversight hearing she welcomes the long-overdue EPA [Read More…]
Ag News
Mississippi River levels have improved, but concerns linger
A Midwest representative for the Waterways Council says Mississippi River levels have improved greatly over the winter but continued moisture will be needed to maintain those levels. Paul Rhode tells Brownfield the amount of snowpack [Read More…]
Ag News
Vilsack reacts to potential shutdown as Congressional leaders extend funding deadline by one week
A deal has been reached in Washington that will likely avert a weekend government shutdown. The stopgap measure pushes back two appropriations deadlines including the deadline for agencies including USDA. During the Senate Ag Committee’s [Read More…]
Ag News
CME milk futures lower, cash dairy mixed again Wednesday
Milk futures were lower and the cash dairy markets were mixed Wednesday on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. March Class III milk was down $0.04 at $17.24. April was down $0.07 at $17.49. May was down [Read More…]
Ag News
Light trade develops in cash cattle country
Chicago Mercantile Exchange live and feeder cattle futures were sharply lower on technical selling, waiting for widespread direct cash cattle business. April live was down $1.60 at $186.12 and June was $1.40 lower at $182.17. [Read More…]
ABC World News
High-level migration meeting between US, Mexico, Guatemala to result in ‘several important announcements,’ officials say
Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A meeting between top representatives from the United States, Mexico and Guatemala on Wednesday will result in “several important announcements” about “commitments for deeper cooperation” on managing migration [Read More…]
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