Month: March 2024
ABC Entertainment News
CBS orders ‘Young Sheldon’ spinoff to series
CBS On Tuesday, CBS announced it will air a spinoff of its sunsetting prequel series Young Sheldon — which itself is a spinoff of The Big Bang Theory. The new show will star Montana Jordan [Read More…]
Ag News
Get ahead of early emerging weeds
Farmers are encouraged to get in front of early emerging weeds. Mark Mongen is an Enlist field specialist for Corteva Agriscience who covers Michigan and Ohio. “We don’t want weeds to get a foothold in [Read More…]
Ag News
Revenue base prices are lower in early 2024
A farm management analyst from southern Minnesota says there are lower guarantees for revenue protection insurance this year. Revenue protection insures farmers against yield losses from natural causes like drought or disease and revenue losses [Read More…]
Ag News
Cattle futures higher on Tuesday, expecting steady cash business
Chicago Mercantile Exchange live and feeder cattle were higher ahead of this week’s direct trade, generally expecting mostly steady business. April live was up $1.32 at $188 and June was $.95 higher at $183.52. March [Read More…]
Ag News
General CRP signup open
Farmers have very little time to sign up for the general Conservation Reserve Program. USDA says producers and landowners have from now until March 29th to submit offers to their local Farm Service Agency office. [Read More…]
Ag News
DOL providing $90 million in farmworker training grants
The U.S. Department of Labor has announced $90 million in grants are available for farmworker training and career services but some in the agricultural industry say the efforts are misdirected. National Council of Agricultural Employers [Read More…]
ABC National News
Iditarod race musher forced to fatally shoot ‘angry’ moose in wild encounter on the course
Lance King/Getty Images, FILE (SKWENTNA, Alaska) — Five-time Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champ Dallas Seavey was forced to fatally shoot and gut what he described as an “angry moose” after the animal became entangled [Read More…]
ABC National News
Six charged for smuggling raw duck and goose intestines under packaged rattlesnakes: Prosecutors
USDA (NEW YORK) — Six people were arrested Tuesday in connection with a scheme to smuggle thousands of pounds of raw goose and duck intestines from China, through Los Angeles, and ultimately to New York [Read More…]
ABC National News
Sen. Bob Menendez and wife face new obstruction charges in bribery case
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and his wife faced new obstruction allegations and charges Tuesday in a superseding indictment filed by federal prosecutors in Manhattan. The superseding indictment charges the [Read More…]
ABC National News
More human remains found in connection with severed body parts found in Long Island park
WABC-TV (NEW YORK) — More human remains were found in two locations in West Babylon, New York, on Tuesday a week after severed body parts belonging to two people were found in a Long Island [Read More…]
ABC National News
What to know about Louisiana’s new tough-on-crime laws
Fotosearch/Getty Images (BATON ROUGE, La.) — Louisiana on Tuesday became one of the toughest states in the nation on crime when Gov. Jeff Landry signed a series of bills that will keep criminals in prison [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema announces she won’t run for reelection
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Arizona’s Kyrsten Sinema announced Tuesday that she is not running for reelection and will leave the Senate at the end of the year. Sinema was elected in 2018 as a [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Colorado secretary of state weighs in on Supreme Court’s Trump ballot decision
Nathan Howard/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — On Monday, the Supreme Court unanimously decided to reverse the decision by the Colorado courts that would have kicked former President Donald Trump off the GOP Primary ballot [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Emily Blunt, America Ferrera, Ben Kingsley and more announced as final round of Oscar presenters
AMPAS On Tuesday, the producers of Sunday’s Oscars telecast announced the final round of presenters for this year’s 96th annual awards. Oppenheimer nominee Emily Blunt will join Barbie nominees America Ferrera and Ryan Gosling, as [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Nicholas Hoult tells ‘Smallville”s Michael Rosenbaum his was the first Lex Luthor he’d ever watched
Jon Kopaloff/WireImage – Arnold Jerocki/Getty Images It was Lex Luthor x2 on a new edition of Michael Rosenbaum‘s Inside of You podcast when the Smallville veteran welcomed fellow actor Nicholas Hoult. Rosenbaum played Lex Luthor [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Dakota Johnson says she’s “not surprised” ‘Madame Web’ was “ripped to shreds”
Sony Pictures Not that it will happen, considering its critical lambasting and commercial failure, but if there’s ever a sequel to Madame Web, don’t expect Dakota Johnson to be in it — or any other [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Sofia Boutella says she was “really affected” when ‘Rebel Moon’ got “demolished” by critics
Netflix A lot of actors say they don’t read reviews, and Sofia Boutella may now know why. She explains to Vulture that watching her Zack Snyder-directed sci-fi epic, Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of [Read More…]
Ag News
Ernst questions USDA’s telework policies, Vilsack defends workers
A U.S. Senator is asking Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack to review USDA’s telework policies. Iowa’s Joni Ernst tells Brownfield an increase in accountability is needed to help ensure USDA employees are serving farmers and ranchers. [Read More…]
Ag News
Soybeans, corn, wheat give back some gains
Soybeans were modestly lower on profit taking and technical selling. Contracts held above the recent lows, but the trade seems reluctant to break overhead resistance due to fundamental factors. South American weather generally looks favorable, [Read More…]
Ag News
CME milk futures, cash dairy down again Tuesday
Milk futures and the cash dairy markets were lower except for butter Tuesday on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. March Class III milk was down $0.18 at $16.52. April was down $0.33 at $16.25. May was down [Read More…]