Month: January 2025
Ag News
How Delaro Complete Fights Against Tar Spot
Delaro Complete Foliar Fungicide offers maximum control from the toughest diseases. In this episode of Managing for Profit, Marketing Manager for Broad Acre Fungicides and cereals at Bayer Crop Science Wyatt Jones explains more. The [Read More…]
Ag News
Feenstra expects changes as farm bill negotiations continue
A member of the House Agriculture Committee expects changes to come from farm bill negotiations. Iowa Republican Randy Feenstra says he was frustrated a new farm bill wasn’t finished last year. “Now we have majorities [Read More…]
Latest News
U.S. Senate Republicans, including Thune, have little to say about Trump pardons of Jan. 6 defendants
Ashley Murray/States Newsroom WASHINGTON — Barring a few exceptions, Senate Republicans on Tuesday largely deflected or altogether avoided questions about President Donald Trump’s broad clemency for over 1,500 defendants who stormed the U.S. Capitol on [Read More…]
ABC World News
Middle East live updates: At least 21 Palestinians hurt in West Bank settler violence
Omar Al-qattaa/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza went into effect on Sunday morning. Hostages held in the strip and Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails will be freed [Read More…]
ABC World News
At least 76 dead in Turkish ski resort hotel fire
Ibrahim Yozoglu/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON and ISTANBUL) — A predawn fire at a hotel in the Kartalkaya Ski Resort in Turkey killed at least 76, with another 51 injured, Turkey’s Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya [Read More…]
ABC National News
New York schools may implement cellphone ban
Robert Alexander/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Cellphones will no longer be allowed in New York schools if Gov. Kathy Hochul gets her way. The New York governor announced on Tuesday a proposal to ban smartphones [Read More…]
ABC National News
Once-in-a-lifetime snowstorm hits Gulf Coast, with record-breaking snowfall in Florida
An ABC News graphic shows the radar for the southeastern United States at 5 a.m. ET on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (ABC News) (TALLAHASSEE, FL) — For much of the Gulf Coast, the snowstorm that’s [Read More…]
ABC National News
Police officer shot inside home they were responding to for help
Karl Merton Ferron/Baltimore Sun Staff (RALEIGH, NC) — A police officer has been seriously injured after a suspect opened fire at authorities from inside a home, officials said. Officers were called to a home in [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Costco’s ‘greedy executives’ have hard deadline to prevent strike, union rep says
Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images) (ISSAQUAH ,WA) — In pursuit of increased wages and renegotiated employee benefits, more than 18,000 Costco union members nationwide voted to authorize a strike if the wholesale company doesn’t agree [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘Joker: Folie à Deux,’ ‘Madame Web,’ ‘Megalopolis’ among 2025 Razzie Award nominees
Warner Bros. Pictures Nominations for the 2025 Razzie Awards have arrived. The Golden Raspberry Awards, also known as The Razzies, recognize the worst films and performances of each year. Among this year’s nominees, Borderlands, Joker: [Read More…]
Ag News
Biofuels bring soybean sustainability
Many soybean farmers see biofuels as a major key to their sustainability. Illinois farmer Brady Holst, who also serves as a director with the Illinois Soybean Association, says demand from the biofuels industry has been [Read More…]
Ag News
Live cattle futures mixed watching direct business develop
At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live cattle were mixed, and feeders were lower ahead of the week’s direct cash business. February live cattle closed $.30 higher at $197.05 and April live cattle closed $.17 lower [Read More…]
Ag News
Ag co-op, Landus, to layoff portion of its workforce
Iowa-based ag cooperative Landus has announced a round of layoffs within the company. In a statement to Brownfield, a Landus spokesperson said they recently cut less than 10% of their team members to meet the [Read More…]
Ag News
More conservation practices will be rewarded by 45Z credit
An ag researcher says farmers can benefit the most if all conservation practices incentivized through the 45Z tax credit are in place. Michigan State University’s Bruno Basso tells Brownfield, “Ideally, a farmer will choose areas [Read More…]
Ag News
Closing Grain and Livestock Futures: January 21, 2025
Mar. corn closed at $4.90, up 5 and 3/4 centsMar. soybeans closed at $10.67 and 1/4, up 33 and 1/4 centsMar. soybean meal closed at $311.00, up $13.80Mar. soybean oil closed at 45.77, up 8 [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
John Bolton says Trump removed his Secret Service detail
Marlene Awaad/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump has terminated Secret Service protection for his former national security adviser John Bolton, Bolton said in a post on X Tuesday afternoon. “Notwithstanding my criticisms of President [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Trump authorizes ICE to target schools and churches
John Moore/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — Federal immigration authorities will be permitted to target schools and churches after President Donald Trump revoked a directive barring arrests in “sensitive” areas. The Department of Homeland Security announced [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Trump criticizes sermon asking him to show ‘mercy’ toward LGBTQ people, immigrants
Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Following a traditional inaugural prayer service at Washington National Cathedral on Tuesday, during which an Episcopal bishop called on President Donald Trump to show “mercy” toward LGBTQ people and immigrants, [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Trump 2nd term live updates: Capitol Police chief sends officers memo after pardons
CHIP SOMODEVILLA/POOL/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump kicked off his second term with a flurry of executive actions on immigration, Jan. 6, health policy and more. More orders are expected Tuesday amid [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Marco Rubio is sworn in as secretary of state, discusses foreign conflict to make America ‘safe’ and ‘prosperous’
Allison Robbert/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — After taking the oath of office to be sworn in as the nation’s 72nd secretary of state, Rubio promised that every action taken by the State Department will [Read More…]