Year: 2024
Ag News
Soybeans, corn down on day, up on week
Soybeans were lower on fund and technical selling, while still ending the week with good gains. U.S. harvest forecasts generally look favorable for late activity and recent rain in Argentina and Brazil should help planting. [Read More…]
Ag News
Birds gone, questions remain for Pure Prairie Poultry producer
After the fallout from Iowa-based Pure Prairie Poultry’s abrupt closure, a Wisconsin contract farmer says he gave all of the birds away. Terry Filla tells Brownfield people came from near and far to take the free chickens. [Read More…]
ABC National News
E. coli cases linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders rise to 75 across 13 states: CDC
Matt Cardy/Getty Images The number of cases in a deadly E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders has risen to 75, according to new federal data released Friday. Cases have been reported in 13 states, according [Read More…]
ABC National News
Judge declines to reconsider criminal charges for Alec Baldwin in fatal ‘Rust’ shooting
Ramsay de Give-Pool/Getty Images (SANTA FE, N.M.) A New Mexico judge has declined to reconsider criminal charges against Alec Baldwin over the fatal shooting on the set of “Rust” in October 2021. “Because the State’s Amended Motion [Read More…]
ABC National News
Delphi suspect went to police 3 days after the murders, but he ‘fell in the cracks’ for years: Sheriff
Alex Perez/ABC News, Files (DELPHI, Ind.) — Delphi, Indiana, double murder suspect Richard Allen self-reported being at the crime scene in the days after the killings, but the tip sheet “fell in the cracks,” leaving him “hiding [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Biden apologizes for Native American children forced into federal boarding schools
ABC/Lorenzo Bevilaqua (PHOENIX) — President Joe Biden in Arizona on Friday apologized to Native Americans for the federal government forcing their children into boarding schools where he said they were abused and deprived of their [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
2024 election updates: McConnell, Johnson rebuke Harris for calling Trump ‘fascist’
Photo Credit: Prince Williams/WireImage/James Devaney/GC Images (WASHINGTON) — The race for the White House remained essentially a dead heat on Friday — with 11 days to go until Election Day. Kamala Harris was headed to [Read More…]
Ag News
More investments being made into rural energy
Rural electric cooperatives are receiving a second round of funding from the USDA to help upgrade rural energy systems. Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack says projects will be funded by the Empowering Rural America (New ERA) [Read More…]
Ag News
Export uptick brings hope to grain markets
There’s some hope among farmers the recent uptick in corn and soybean export sales will improve prices. Bryan Biegler farms in southwest Minnesota. “It’s been nice seeing this little bump coming up here, certainly going [Read More…]
Ag News
Syngenta partners with Taranis on AI-driven precision service
Syngenta and Taranis are partnering to help farmers use artificial intelligence to make agronomic decisions. Syngenta digital ag solutions marketing manager Meade McDonald says the collaboration has the potential to revolutionize farming using the power [Read More…]
Ag News
Cash dairy market mixed at end of week
Cash dairy prices were mixed Friday on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Dry whey remained unchanged at $0.6025, where it’s been for much of the week. No sales were recorded. Forty-pound cheese blocks were down $0.02 [Read More…]
Ag News
Plenty of pumpkins from the nation’s top producer
A University of Illinois Extension educator says it was a good growing season for the nation’s top pumpkin producing state. Nathan Johanning tells Brownfield… “Both types of pumpkins are very prevalent, although we raise at [Read More…]
ABC World News
Israel-Gaza-Lebanon live updates: Israeli strike kills 3 journalists in Lebanon
Jalaa Marey via Getty Images (LONDON) — Israeli forces continued their intense operations inside Gaza after Hamas leader and Oct. 7, 2023 attack mastermind Yahya Sinwar was killed in a firefight with Israeli forces. The [Read More…]
ABC World News
Climate and environment updates: UN issues vital warning on avoiding climate disaster
SimpleImages/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The climate crisis is not a distant threat; it’s happening right now and affecting what matters most to us. Hurricanes intensified by a warming planet and drought-fueled wildfires are destroying [Read More…]
ABC National News
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland applauds Biden apology for Indigenous boarding schools
Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — For more than a century, from the early 1800s to the 1960s, Indigenous children were taken from their tribes — sometimes forcibly from their homes — to attend government assimilation [Read More…]
ABC National News
Generative AI is disrupting creative communities, here’s how they are fighting back
KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Generative artificial intelligence companies capable of generating creative content are also said to be disrupting the livelihoods of creatives around the world, according to a group of [Read More…]
ABC National News
Menendez brothers are ‘cautiously optimistic’ they’ll be released, lawyer says
Ted Soqui/Sygma via Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — NThe attorney for Lyle and Erik Menendez said he thinks the brothers are “cautiously optimistic that they can see some real relief” after the Los Angeles County district [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Trump denies making positive comments about Hitler
ABC NEWS/MICHAEL LE BRECHT II (WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump is denying he praised Adolf Hitler as having done “some good things,” as his former chief of staff and retired Marine general John Kelly was reported [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Biden to apologize for government forcing Indian children into boarding schools
ABC/Lorenzo Bevilaqua (PHOENIX) — President Joe Biden was in Arizona on Friday to apologize to Native Americans for the federal government forcing Indian children into boarding schools where the White House said they were abused and deprived of their [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
2024 election updates: Va. judge strikes down voter purge that impacted 1,600 people
Photo Credit: Prince Williams/WireImage/James Devaney/GC Images (WASHINGTON) — The race for the White House remained essentially a dead heat on Friday — with 11 days to go until Election Day. Kamala Harris was headed to [Read More…]