Month: March 2024
In Brief: Oscars ratings at four-year high, and more
ABC’s telecast of the 96th Oscars on Sunday drew an average audience of 19.5 million total viewers, while nabbing a 3.81 rating among adults 18-49 based on Fast National Live+Same Day program data, the network [Read More…]
Soy is Part of the Solution for Animal Agriculture
Did you know the number one consumer of soybeans is the animal agriculture sector? Specifically the swine industry. In this Managing for Profit, Brock Willard an Illinois soybean farmer says soybean meal helps the animal [Read More…]
Unseasonably mild, Spring-like temps cover the Heartland
Across the Corn Belt, record-setting warmth continues in advance of an approaching storm system. On Monday, daily-record high temperatures included 70°F in Fargo, North Dakota, and 80°F in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and Sioux City, [Read More…]
Iowa DNR: 1,500 tons of liquid nitrogen fertilizer spilled into southwest Iowa river
Cleanup efforts are underway after a large amount of fertilizer was spilled into a southwest Iowa river. The Iowa DNR says New Cooperative in Red Oak notified the agency early Monday morning that approximately 1,500 [Read More…]
Biologicals for Soybeans
Biological products include some form of living organisms that are marketed to support crop health. In this Pods for Profit, Michigan State University Extension’s Eric Anderson discusses ongoing research trials with the Michigan Soybean Committee [Read More…]
Don’t Be Afraid to Ask for Help
In this week’s Managing Mental Health, a partnership with the Missouri Department of Mental Health and Brownfield Ag News, Dr. Bart Andrews with Behavioral Health Response, says don’t be afraid to ask for help when [Read More…]
As Sudan civil war rages, US special envoy begins regional tour to push for cease-fire
A general view of an Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp on Nov. 30, 2023 in Bentiu, South Sudan. (Luke Dray/Getty Images) (LONDON) — The United States’ new special envoy for Sudan is to travel to [Read More…]
Pro-Ukrainian militant groups launch incursion into Russia
belterz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Dozens of pro-Ukrainian fighters claimed on Tuesday to have launched an incursion with tanks and armored vehicles across the border into Russia, in what may be the largest attack over [Read More…]
Cargo plane carrying 15 crashes in Russia, ministry says
DuKai photographer/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A Russian cargo plane carrying 15 people crashed near Ivanovo, northeast of Moscow, the Russian Defence Ministry said. Eight crew members and seven passengers were on board the Ilyushin [Read More…]
Trump and co-defendants should post bond for full $464 million judgment, NY attorney general says
SimpleImages/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Lawyers for New York Attorney General Letitia James argued that Donald Trump and his co-defendants should be required to post a bond to cover the $464 million judgment in their [Read More…]
Three children, two adults dead after school bus and semitruck collide in Illinois: Police
PBNJ Productions/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Three children and two adults died after a school bus collided with a semitruck on U.S. Route 24 in Illinois on Monday, authorities said. The fatal collision between the [Read More…]
Deadly Wisconsin intersection crash victims identified, new details emerge
Thinkstock Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Investigators revealed the details Monday of the deadly crash on a Wisconsin highway last week and identified the nine people who were killed. Eight of the victims who were [Read More…]
Body of missing 54-year-old woman found in cemetery on the side of highway in Mexico
Facebook / Renton Police Department (NEW YORK) — The body of a 54-year-old woman missing since February has been found in a cemetery on the side of a highway in Mexico, police say. Reyna Henandez [Read More…]
Crocodile bites man swimming to shore after boat capsizes in Florida Everglades
Lea McQuillan / 500px/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A 68-year-old man was bitten by a crocodile after his boat capsized in the Florida Everglades and he tried to swim to shore while his boat was [Read More…]
Man arrested in California after Massachusetts shooting deaths of woman and her 11-year-old daughter
WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — Police in California have arrested a man wanted in connection with the deaths of a mother and her 11-year-old daughter in Massachusetts who were fatally shot while sitting in a parked [Read More…]
Illinois police identify 5 people, including 3 children, killed when school bus, semitruck collide
RUSHVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Authorities have identified the five people killed in a fiery crash, including both drivers and three children, when a school bus and a semitruck collided along a highway in western Illinois. The [Read More…]
Robert Hur poised to defend findings of probe into Biden’s handling of classified docs
Photo by Mike Kline (notkalvin)/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Robert Hur on Tuesday will face lawmakers eager to question the findings of his yearlong probe into President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents, an investigation that [Read More…]
New RNC leadership slashing staff, sources say
Lara Trump, daughter-in-law of former US President Donald Trump, speaks at the Republican National Committee (RNC) Spring meeting on March 8, 2024, in Houston, Texas. (CECILE CLOCHERET/AFP via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — A new Donald [Read More…]
GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley accuses Biden administration of trying to silence immigration judges
Sen. Chuck Grassley is seen during votes in the U.S. Capitol, Dec. 5, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley is accusing the Biden administration of improperly attempting [Read More…]
Biden, Netanyahu clash over Rafah ‘red line,’ planned Israeli operation
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — As the relationship between President Joe Biden and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has grown increasingly fraught and tense, a looming ground incursion into Gaza’s southernmost [Read More…]
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