Month: September 2024
ABC Politics News
Doug Emhoff blasts Gov. Sanders’ remarks about Harris not having biological children
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Second gentleman Doug Emhoff blasted remarks made by Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who said Vice President Kamala Harris “doesn’t have anything to keep her humble” because she does [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Biden calls rate cut ‘an important day for the country’
President Joe Biden speaks at a reception in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 18, 2024. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on [Read More…]
ABC Business News
What does the Fed interest rate cut mean for mortgages and homebuyers?
Grace Cary/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Federal Reserve delivered a jumbo-sized rate cut this week in a move widely viewed as a declaration of victory over inflation and a signal of relief for borrowers. [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Sebastian Stan defends Marvel films, teases ‘Thunderbolts*’ movie
Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images Sebastian Stan won’t stand for any Marvel hate. The actor, who made his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut as Bucky Barnes in 2011’s Captain America: The First Avenger, teased his next movie [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Amazon signs up Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis for two seasons of ‘Scarpetta’
ABC — NBC/Kevork Djansezian Amazon’s Prime Video platform has signed Jamie Lee Curtis and Nicole Kidman to two seasons of an adaptation of bestselling crime novelist Patricia Cornwell‘s beloved Kay Scarpetta book series. Ariana DeBose has also been [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Paul Giamatti, Issa Rae, Tracee Ellis Ross and more in store for ‘Black Mirror’ season 7
Plemons – VALERIE MACON / AFP As part of its Geeked Week festivities, Netflix has teased the star-studded seventh installment of its out-there sci-fi anthology Black Mirror. Paul Giamatti and Jesse Plemons will be featured, as [Read More…]
Ag News
Colombia imposes additional tariffs on U.S. milk powder imports.
Colombia has moved to impose additional tariffs on U.S. milk powder imports. Jaime Castenada with the National Milk Producers Federation and U.S. Dairy Export Council tells Brownfield the one-month period of filing counter-arguments has passed, [Read More…]
Ag News
Direct cash cattle trade remains quiet
Chicago Mercantile Exchange live and feeder cattle futures were sharply higher, getting ready for direct business and Friday’s USDA Cattle on Feed report. Feeders had additional support from the lower move in corn. October live [Read More…]
Ag News
Closing Grain and Livestock Futures: September 19, 2024
Dec. corn closed at $4.05 and 3/4, down 7 centsNov. soybeans closed at $10.13 and 1/4, down 3/4 centOct. soybean meal closed at $319.90, up $2.00Oct. soybean oil closed at 41.75, up 76 pointsDec. wheat [Read More…]
Ag News
Harvest pressure pulls soybeans, corn lower
Soybeans were fractionally lower on fund and technical selling. It was an up and down day, as early yield results have been mixed, generally below expectations in the east, with probable harvest delays in some [Read More…]
Ag News
Rapid dry down advancing Michigan harvests
A Michigan farmer near the Ohio border soybean harvest is just starting in his area. Scott Welden tells Brownfield the last few weeks of hot, dry weather has dramatically changed crop conditions. “We do have [Read More…]
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A Family-Owned Mitchell Business Celebrates 140 Years
140 years ago, in 1884. South Dakota was still a territory, Mitchell was in its infancy and Mitchell Iron and Supply was born. Samantha Summers says her great, great, great grandfather, George Summers arrived from [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Francis Ford Coppola apparently gives his own ‘Megalopolis’ a 5-star review
Coppola and Adam Driver on set – Lionsgate Francis Ford Coppola‘s star-studded, mostly self-funded, pet project Megalopolis can’t seem to avoid controversy regarding its reviews. While he has said he didn’t know how possibly AI-generated [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Florence Pugh on needing a summer vacation: “I hate how much of my life I’ve missed”
ABC Florence Pugh needed a summer vacation. In an interview with British Vogue, Pugh — who in recent years starred in Marvel’s Black Widow and Hawkeye; Oppenheimer; Dune: Part Two; Marvel’s Thunderbolts; and the forthcoming drama We Live in [Read More…]
Ag News
Dairy can make breakfast easy
If you’re a parent of school-aged kids – sometimes breakfast can be a chore. Jessica Kassel, a registered dietitian with the St. Louis Dairy Council, says it doesn’t have to be – and there are [Read More…]
Ag News
Soybean harvest underway in southeast Minnesota
The soybean harvest is underway in southeast Minnesota. Northfield farmer Bruce Peterson tells Brownfield some early maturity varieties planted the last week of April turned quickly thanks to warm and dry September weather. “Not a [Read More…]
Ag News
Marketing questions remain as harvest picks up
Some Illinois farmers say marketing will be the biggest challenge of the 2024 growing season. Mark Schweizer, who farms in Montgomery County, says he’s not sure what to do with the crop he started harvesting [Read More…]
Ag News
CME cash dairy prices mostly down Thursday
Cash dairy prices were mostly lower Thursday on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Dry whey was down $0.0075 at $0.5875. Six sales were recorded, ranging from $0.5875 to $0.5975. Forty-pound cheese blocks were up $0.03 at [Read More…]
Latest News
100 Bison Relocated From Grand Canyon’s North Rim To South Dakota
More than a century ago, bison were introduced to the North Rim area of the Grand Canyon. Bison are not native to the area, and the high-altitude, forested landscape of the Kaibab Plateau, and especially [Read More…]
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Wellness for Firefighters
Volunteer firefighters play a crucial role in protecting rural communities, and over time, their services have expanded in assisting communities during natural disasters, medical emergencies and other hazardous incidents. In the United States, roughly 65% [Read More…]