Month: December 2024
Ag News
Generic chemicals should bring more scouting trips
The outreach agronomist with the Illinois Soybean Association says farmers that are turning to generic chemicals as a cost-saving measure should plan to increase their scouting trips. Stephanie Porter tells Brownfield, “A recent study just [Read More…]
Ag News
Prop 12 and Question 3 stir uncertainty for pork producers in 2025
State livestock confinement laws continue to create uncertainty for the hog industry. National Pork Producers Council president Lori Stevermer says California’s Proposition 12 and Massachusetts’ Question 3 open the door for a patchwork of regulations. [Read More…]
Ag News
ACE has reservations about EPA nominee Zeldin
The biofuels industry is preparing for new leadership at EPA. American Coalition for Ethanol CEO Brian Jennings says the nomination of former New York Congressman Lee Zeldin raises some concerns. “Look, as a congressman from [Read More…]
ABC World News
Follow New Year’s Eve 2025 celebrations around the world
Saeed Khan via Getty Images (LONDON) — Happy 2025! In some parts of the world, anyway. The Pacific island nation of Kiribati was the first country to ring in 2025, with its 133,500 citizens celebrating [Read More…]
ABC National News
Woman set on fire on New York City subway ID’d by police
(NEW YORK) — A woman who died after being set on fire on a New York City subway train this month has been identified, according to police. The woman was identified as 61-year-old Debrina Kawam of Toms [Read More…]
ABC Business News
These states will raise the minimum wage in 2025
Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Nearly half of U.S. states are set to raise their minimum wage at the outset of 2025, boosting pay for millions of workers stretching from California to Maine. In all, 21 [Read More…]
ABC Health News
FDA begins testing aged raw cow’s milk cheese samples nationwide for bird flu
Al Drago/CQ Roll Call (NEW YORK) — Federal health officials have begun collecting samples of aged raw cow’s milk cheese across the U.S. to test for bird flu, the Food and Drug Administration announced. Sample collection [Read More…]
Ag News
Illinois budget woes could impact ag
The director of governmental affairs and commodities with the Illinois Farm Bureau says the state’s looming budget issues could impact agriculture. Kevin Semlow tells Brownfield, “The biggest problem they got is their revenue projections are [Read More…]
Ag News
Cash dairy prices steady to lower Tuesday
Cash dairy prices were steady-to-lower except for cheese barrels Tuesday on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Dry whey prices remained unchanged at $0.75. No sales were recorded. Forty-pound cheese blocks were unchanged at $1.91. Two sales [Read More…]
ABC World News
4 relatives, including 3 Americans, shot in Mexico; 3 adults dead, child in critical condition
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (DURANGO, Mexico) — Four family members, including three Americans, were shot in an attack in Durango, Mexico, that left three of the four relatives dead, officials said. The three adults were all [Read More…]
ABC World News
Azerbaijan Airlines crash probe looks into Russian air control conduct, source says
Meiramgul Kussainova/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON) — Azerbaijani authorities investigating last week’s Azerbaijan Airlines crash in Kazakhstan are probing the “disturbing” possibility that Russian air traffic controllers may have directed the damaged plane out over the [Read More…]
ABC World News
Middle East live updates: Israel threatens Houthis with ‘miserable fate’
DECEMBER 30: Palestinians taking shelter in tent camps are battling harsh weather conditions as heavy rainfall has flooded their tents on December 30, 2024 in Deir al-Balah, Gaza. The ongoing Israeli attacks on Gaza are [Read More…]
ABC World News
New Year around the world: Pacific nations welcome 2025
Saeed Khan via Getty Images (LONDON) — The Pacific island nation of Kiribati was the first country to ring in 2025, with its 133,500 citizens celebrating the new year at 5 a.m. ET on Tuesday. [Read More…]
ABC World News
Search for answers in deadly South Korean plane crash mystery
SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg via Getty Images (SEOUL) — A team of U.S. investigators arrived in South Korea to assist local aviation officials as they comb the wreckage of the Jeju Air Boeing 737-800 aircraft that crashed [Read More…]
ABC National News
US transfers Guantanamo detainee to Tunisia
Sylvie Lanteaume via Getty Images (GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA) — The U.S. Department of Defense on Monday announced that Guantanamo Bay detainee Ridah Bin Saleh al-Yazidi had been repatriated to Tunisia, a transfer that leaves 26 [Read More…]
ABC National News
Jimmy Carter leaves behind a global public health work legacy
The Bettmann Archive via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As world leaders mourn the death of former President Jimmy Carter and remark on his political and policy legacy, doctors are remembering his efforts to prevent disease, [Read More…]
ABC National News
Lawsuit alleges ‘irreplaceable’ Elvis Presley artifacts illegally put up for auction
The Bettmann Archive via Getty Images (MEMPHIS, TN) — The gatekeepers of Elvis Presley’s estate are trying to recover a potential trove of records and memorabilia left behind by the King of Rock and Roll, [Read More…]
ABC National News
US poised to see dramatic drop in homicides for 3rd straight year
Police investigate a mass shooting that erupted on June 2, 2024, that left one man dead and 28 people injured at a large street party in Akron, Ohio. (ABC News/WEWS) (NEW YORK) — Homicides across [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Ryan Seacrest talks resolutions, hosting ‘Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve’
Disney/Gizelle Hernandez The clock is about to strike midnight on the last day of 2024. Helping to ring in the new year again is Ryan Seacrest, who hosts Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve Tuesday [Read More…]
Ag News
Rural child care remains an expensive challenge
One of the expenses farm families often deal with is child care for very young farm children, if it is even available. Michaela Hoffelmeyer and Trish Fisher at the University of Wisconsin- Madison are part [Read More…]