Year: 2024

Plants utilize nutrients at various times during their growth cycle. On this week’s episode of Managing for Profit, an expert with AgroLiquid says that anytime a pass is made in the field, producers can piggyback [Read More…]

City Of Mitchell Has A Stake In Upcoming Project

March 28, 2024 J.P. Skelly

The City of Mitchell has a role in the upcoming South Dakota Highway 37-Main Street to National Guard Road project. Public Works Director Joe Schroeder says it involves infrastructure…. He says the work will [Read More…]

Opera on the prairie? University of South Dakota program raises its voice

Stu Whitney / South Dakota News Watch VERMILLION, S.D. – Tracelyn Gesteland was an ambitious opera teacher and vocalist when she arrived at the University of South Dakota in 2008, firmly aware of the irony [Read More…]

‘Order restored’ at penitentiary following ‘disturbance’

Makenzie Huber and John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight SIOUX FALLS — Order was restored late Wednesday after a “disturbance” at the East Hall of the South Dakota State Penitentiary, Corrections Secretary Kellie Wasko said. The statement [Read More…]

2024 Class B Boys Basketball All-State Team

CLASS B First Team Nicolas Marshall, White River, 6-1, sr., G (26.2 ppg, 3.5 rpg, 4.9 apg) Bryon Laue, Castlewood, 6-9, jr., C (15.5 ppg, 11.2 rpg) Nick Hanson, Viborg-Hurley, 6-6, jr. C (23.1 ppg, [Read More…]

2024 Class A Boys Basketball All-State Team

CLASS A First Team Griffen Goodbary, SF Christian, 6-10, jr., F (20.2 ppg, 7 rpg, 2.7 apg) Jaxson Wingert, Dakota Valley, 6-7, sr., C (27.8 ppg, 4.2 rpg) Alec Squires, Sioux Valley, 6-10, sr., F-C [Read More…]

2024 Class AA Boys Basketball All-State Team

CLASS AA First Team Jacoby Mehrman, Harrisburg, 6-4, sr., G (17.4 ppg, 5.4 rpg, 3.7 apg, 56 steals) Markus Talley, Mitchell, 6-1, jr., G (16.8 ppg, 6.3 rpg, 4.1 apg) Josh Olthoff, Brandon Valley, 6-8, [Read More…]

Ag News

Better understanding antibiotic use in food-producing animals

When a restaurant or a food company switches to a “no antibiotics ever” policy for food-producing animals, it can lead to some serious misconceptions. Tom Super with the National Chicken Council says one of those [Read More…]

Ag News

Farmers seek rootworm solutions

After a troublesome 2023, more farmers are looking for ways to deal with corn rootworm problems. Agronomist Brandon Furseth with Dairyland Seeds tells Brownfield much of southern Wisconsin has been dealing with more corn rootworm [Read More…]

Ag News

New IL Master Farmers inducted today

A new crop of Illinois Master Farmers are being inducted today (THU). Holly Spangler, editor of Prairie Farmer magazine, which has handed out the awards since 1925, tells Brownfield the awards… “Recognize farmers who do [Read More…]

Ag News

Most farmers in good financial shape

March 27, 2024 nedvedmedia

An agricultural banker says most farmers will enter the growing season in good financial shape. Commodity prices are not ideal, and margins are tight, but ag banker Daniel Duthie with Bremer Bank tells Brownfield most [Read More…]

Ag News

Ag groups give feedback on federal water legislation

March 27, 2024 nedvedmedia

Missouri agriculture groups are giving their feedback on what should be included in the Water Resources Development Act. The federal legislation (WRDA) outlines the projects the Army Corps of Engineers will work on to improve [Read More…]

4 dead, 1 in critical condition after Illinois stabbing spree; suspect in custody, officials say

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (ROCKFORD, Ill.) — An adult male allegedly stabbed multiple victims in the Rockford, Illinois area on Wednesday, leaving four people dead, one in critical condition and four others in stable condition, authorities [Read More…]

Fani Willis, responding to House Judiciary subpoena, vows to bring Trump’s election case to trial

Alex Slitz/AP/Bloomberg via Getty Images (ATLANTA) — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis vowed to bring former President Donald Trump’s Georgia election interference case to trial in a letter to House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, [Read More…]

Baltimore’s Key Bridge may have lacked collision protective measures for modern cargo ships: Experts

Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images (BALTIMORE) — In the wake of the collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, engineering and infrastructure policy experts explained the critical need for bridge reform in the United States and an [Read More…]

Man sentenced to 11 months in prison for voicemail threats to Nancy Pelosi, Alejandro Mayorkas: DOJ