Month: February 2025
Ag News
Corn, wheat pressured by USDA expectations
Soybeans were lower on fund and technical selling. The USDA is projecting lower planted area this year and improved demand next marketing year at the annual Ag Outlook Forum. Contracts were up early but wilted [Read More…]
Ag News
Farmers and ranchers need a farm bill
The president of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association says farmers and ranchers need the certainty of a five-year farm bill. Buck Wehrbein of Nebraska told the U.S. Senate Ag Committee during a hearing this week [Read More…]
Ag News
Dairy margin program is out of date
A sixth-generation dairy farmer says the Dairy Margin Coverage program needs to be updated to better reflect actual milk production in the next farm bill. Vermont’s Harold Howrigan testified this week before the Senate Ag [Read More…]
Ag News
Nebraska lawmakers considering bill to increase protections for meat and poultry workers
Nebraska lawmakers are considering a bill that could increase protections for meatpacking and poultry workers during animal disease outbreaks. State Senator Dunixi Guereca is the bill’s sponsor. “This bill emerges from an urgent need to [Read More…]
Latest News
Mitchell honored as South Dakota Community of the Year
The Mitchell Area Chamber and Development is proud to announce that Mitchell has been named Community of the Year at the South Dakota Governor’s Conference on Economic Development. This prestigious honor recognizes Mitchell’s ongoing commitment [Read More…]
Latest News
Governor Rhoden hits the reset button on men’s prison project
PIERRE — Lincoln County might not be the site of a new prison after all. But that won’t be decided until this summer. Gov. Larry Rhoden has signed an executive order to form a working [Read More…]
ABC World News
Andrew Tate and brother land in Florida, DeSantis says they’re not welcome
Andrew Tate (left) and his brother Tristan Tate are pictured inside The Court of Appeal in Bucharest, Romania, on December 10, 2024. (Photo by DANIEL MIHAILESCU/AFP v (FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla.) — Controversial influencers Andrew and [Read More…]
ABC World News
At least 13 injured after car rams into bus stop in Israel
Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — At least 13 people have been injured after a car rammed into a bus stop in Israel, at Karkur Junction, according to Israeli police. The suspect is a [Read More…]
ABC World News
Pope Francis continues to improve in the hospital, Vatican says
Flowers and candles are laid at the statue of John Paul II outside the Gemelli hospital where Pope Francis is hospitalized with pneumonia, in Rome on February 27, 2025. (Photo by DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP via Getty [Read More…]
ABC National News
FBI Director Kash Patel wants to bring the UFC to the FBI, sources say
Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Newly-installed FBI Director Kash Patel, whose proclaimed plans to overhaul the nation’s premier law enforcement agency have rattled many within the bureau, has proposed enhancing the FBI’s ranks [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Over 60 deaths linked to ‘unknown disease’ in Congo: WHO
A general view of the World Health Organization (WHO) on April 28, 2009, in Geneva, Switzerland. (Harold Cunningham/Getty Images) (DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO) — At least 60 people have died and over 1,000 more have [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Major medical groups push back against Trump administration’s ‘sex-based definitions’
Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Some major medical associations are pushing back against the Department of Health and Human Services’ updated definitions of biological sex in federal policy in the wake of President Donald Trump’s executive [Read More…]
ABC Health News
Measles cases reported in New Jersey, Kentucky amid ongoing outbreak in Texas
Subaas Shrestha/NurPhoto via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More measles cases are being confirmed across the United States as health officials work to treat patients in an ongoing outbreak in Texas. The Kentucky Department for [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Sarah Michelle Gellar pays tribute to ‘Buffy’ co-star Michelle Trachtenberg
Kevin Winter/Getty Images, FILE Sarah Michelle Gellar is paying tribute to her late Buffy the Vampire Slayer co-star Michelle Trachtenberg after her death at age 39. Gellar took to Instagram on Thursday to share photos [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Zendaya joins the voice cast of ‘Shrek 5’
Theo Wargo/Getty Images Somebody once told me Zendaya is joining the cast of Shrek 5. Universal Pictures made the cast announcement in a video shared to its YouTube channel and Instagram on Thursday. “Far, Far [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Will Reeve retraces dad Christopher’s journey from Mexico to Alaska in new doc ‘Finding My Father’
ABC News Studios Will Reeve: Finding My Father is now streaming on Hulu. It documents Christopher Reeve‘s son Will‘s journey as he recreates an expedition that his father undertook, shortly before he became paralyzed in a horse [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
New Prime Video series ‘House of David’ is like biblical ‘Game of Thrones,’ says creator
Jonathan Prime/Prime © Amazon Content Services LLC House of David, Prime Video’s series about the life of the biblical King David, debuts Thursday with three episodes. It depicts how shepherd boy David is anointed king [Read More…]
Ag News
Pork, rice export sales up on the week
There were a few bright spots in the weekly export sales update. The USDA says pork sales during the week ending February 20th were up on the week thanks to solid demand from Mexico, rice [Read More…]
ABC World News
Andrew Tate and brother land in Florida after Romanian travel restrictions lifted
Andrew Tate (left) and his brother Tristan Tate are pictured inside The Court of Appeal in Bucharest, Romania, on December 10, 2024. (Photo by DANIEL MIHAILESCU/AFP v (LONDON) — Controversial influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate [Read More…]
ABC World News
Israel will not withdraw from Philadelphi corridor as stipulated in ceasefire
DAVID SILVERMAN/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — Israel will not withdraw from the Philadelphi corridor — the border separating Egypt and Gaza — as stipulated by the ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel, an Israeli [Read More…]