Month: September 2024

Dec. corn closed at $4.10 and 3/4, down 2 centsNov. soybeans closed at $10.23 and 1/2, up 2 centsOct. soybean meal closed at $322.40, down $3.40Oct. soybean oil closed at 41.69, up 97 pointsDec. wheat [Read More…]

Ag News

Thinking differently about livestock grazing

Two regenerative ag consultants say adaptive grazing can help build healthy soils. Eric Fuchs with Understanding Ag says adaptive grazing for livestock looks different from conventional grazing. “The conventional model has cattle turned into a [Read More…]

Two-Way Traffic Shift Scheduled on S.D. Highway 37 North of Mitchell

Beginning Monday, Sept. 9, 2024, two-way traffic will be shifted into the northbound lanes of S.D. Highway 37, north of Mitchell. In addition to southbound lane closures on Highway 37, a closure will also be [Read More…]

Israel-Gaza live updates: 6 killed after Israeli operation in West Bank

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the Israel-Hamas war continues, the latest round of cease-fire discussions appears to have reached an impasse. Meanwhile, after six hostages were found dead in Gaza, protests erupted in Israel. [Read More…]

Allison Janney revealed in tease to second season of Netflix’s ‘The Diplomat’

Alex Bailey/Netflix © 2024 Netflix has dropped a teaser for the second season of its acclaimed political drama The Diplomat. There’s no dialogue, but the snippet reveals Allison Janney, who joins the cast for the sophomore frame [Read More…]

Liev Schreiber thinks “it’s amazing” fans wanted to see him reprise ‘X-Men’ role in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’

Jim McIsaac/Getty Images While Deadpool & Wolverine brought back a host of heroes and villains from Marvel movie past, one actor who didn’t get the call from Ryan Reynolds and company was Liev Schreiber. The [Read More…]

Michael Keaton reveals plans to start using combo of birth and professional name

James MacCauley/Shutterstock You know him as Michael Keaton, but the actor is planning to change his name in show business. Born Michael Douglas — just like the two-time Wall Street Oscar winner — the Beetlejuice star opened [Read More…]

Ag News

Consumers predict food inflation to get lower

An ag economist at Purdue University says consumer estimates for food price inflation declined in the latest Consumer Food Insights Report. Joseph Balagtas with Purdue’s Center for Food Demand Analysis and Sustainability says this is [Read More…]

Ag News

USDA’s Bonnie concerned about solar farms

A USDA official is concerned solar installations will take productive farmland out of production. Undersecretary for farm production and conservation Robert Bonnie tells Brownfield. “I hear it everywhere I go, and I worry about bringing [Read More…]

Ag News

Minnesota farmer combats crop diseases

Many corn and soybean farmers faced significant disease pressure this season. Rob Tate farms near Cannon Falls in southeast Minnesota and says conditions suited plant pathogens. “We decided to spray a little more fungicide than [Read More…]

FEMA Assistance May be Available for Damaged Wells and Septic Systems

South Dakotans who lost access to water through a private well or damaged septic system in Davison, Lincoln, Turner, and Union counties as a result of the severe storms, straight-line winds, and flooding from June [Read More…]

Crews continue to work the First Thunder Fire near Rapid City

Firefighters are conducting mop up work as progress is continuing on the lines of the First Thunder Fire southwest of Rapid City.Incident Commander Brandon Sanchez says containment on the fire remains at 41% and the [Read More…]

Munich police shoot gunman dead amid ‘major’ operation in city center

Police officers secure the area around the Koenigsplatz square after a shooting near the building of the Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism (NS-Dokumentationszentrum) in Munich, southern Germany, on September 5, 2024. (PAULINE [Read More…]

Hugh Jackman thanks a team of people for his Wolverine body

Marvel Studios To a shirtless photo of his Deadpool & Wolverine body that he posted to Instagram, Hugh Jackman voiced over a lengthy thank-you to a team of people who helped get him into superhero [Read More…]

‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ debuts to standing ovation at Venice Film Fest, but uneven reviews

Warner Bros. Pictures Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga‘s new movie, Joker: Folie à Deux, earned a lot of “Applause” at the Venice Film Festival on Sept. 4, but the reviews are another story. Variety reports [Read More…]

In Brief: ‘A Minecraft Movie’ drops a trailer, and more

Warner Bros. has dropped the first teaser to A Minecraft Movie, the action comedy based on the block-building videogame phenomenon. The movie stars Jason Momoa in an a pretty extraordinary wig — with bangs, no [Read More…]

Ethan firefighters get a $2,000 boost from Central Electric