Month: April 2025
Ag News
ARC, PLC, ECAP signups going strong
A Farm Service Agency official says farmers are actively signing up for crop insurance and economic relief. Wisconsin FSA’s Deputy Executive Director Tyler Radke tells Brownfield they’ve had a steady flow of farmers signing up [Read More…]
Ag News
Ag economist encourages farmers to “control the controllables”
An ag economist who farms in southern Minnesota encourages farmers to control the controllables in the face of tight margins. Megan Roberts works for Compeer Financial and says there’s a lot of uncertainty right now. [Read More…]
Ag News
U.S. cotton prices feel impacts of trade war
The vice president of economics and policy analysis at the National Cotton Council says cotton prices are responding lower to trade retaliation from China. “In just the last few days, cotton prices have dropped from [Read More…]
ABC National News
Texas track meet stabbing: Suspect allegedly told police he was protecting himself
Frisco Police Department (FRISCO, Texas) — A 17-year-old student charged with murder in the fatal stabbing of another student at a track meet allegedly confessed to the killing and officers say he told them he was protecting [Read More…]
ABC National News
Judge orders government to return Maryland man deported in ‘error’ to El Salvador
Ulrich Baumgarten via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A federal judge in Maryland has granted a preliminary injunction and ordered the government to facilitate the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Figure skating tributes dedicated to DC plane crash victims raise $1.3 million
Scott Taetsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A tearful tribute from the United States’ most decorated figure skaters coupled with multiple fundraising efforts has garnered $1.3 million on behalf of the Washington, D.C., plane crash victims, organizers [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Dow closes down 2,200 points, Nasdaq enters bear market amid tariff fallout
(lvcandy/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — U.S. stocks closed down significantly on Friday after a continued selloff amid fallout from President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted 2,230 points, or 5.5%, while [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Fed Chair Powell says he expects Trump’s tariffs will hike inflation and slow growth
Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Friday he expects President Donald Trump’s tariff policy will hike prices and slow economic growth, while noting that key indicators “still show [Read More…]
ABC Business News
US hiring surged in March, defying recession fears
(SimpleImages/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — U.S. hiring surged in March, blowing past economists’ expectations and defying concern on Wall Street about a possible economic recession, government data on Friday showed. The fresh data offered news [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
First look at ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ shows off new Na’vi clans
VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images Avatar: Fire and Ash made a big splash at CinemaCon 2025. Convention attendees were all given 3D glasses to wear while watching a trailer for the film, which has yet [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Kenan Thompson has no plans to leave ‘Saturday Night Live’: ‘The forever cast member’
Theo Wargo/NBC Kenan Thompson has no plans to leave Studio 8H anytime soon. The actor, who has starred on Saturday Night Live for 22 seasons, is the longest-serving cast member in the show’s history. He [Read More…]
Ag News
Closing Grain and Livestock Futures: April 4, 2025
May corn closed at $4.60 and 1/4, up 2 and 3/4 centsMay soybeans closed at $9.77, down 34 and 1/2 centsMay soybean meal closed at $283.10, down $4.90May soybean oil closed at 45.84, down 1.22 [Read More…]
Ag News
Cattle, hog futures drop amid tariff concerns
At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live and feeder cattle were sharply lower as the market grapples with demand uncertainty following retaliatory tariff announcements from China. June live cattle closed $6.50 lower at $198.20 and August [Read More…]
Ag News
Not a time to speculate when it comes to retaliatory tariffs
The president and CEO of the US Meat Export Federation says the biggest area of concern for the announced tariffs are in Asia. Dan Halstrom says Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan are at the top [Read More…]
Ag News
Proposed legislation offers long-term SWCD funding solution
The executive director of the Association of Illinois Soil & Water Conservation Districts (AISWCD) says a new proposal in the General Assembly offers a potential long-term funding solution for local districts. Eliot Clay tells Brownfield [Read More…]
Ag News
New HPAI case confirmed in Wisconsin
Wisconsin has its first case of highly pathogenic avian influenza for 2025. The Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection says a commercial poultry farm in Sheboygan County has been affected by the virus. Forty-thousand [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Interim US attorney for DC says he’s ‘expanded’ investigation into Jan. 6 cases
Samuel Corum/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Ed Martin, the interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, said in a message to staff on Friday that he’s “expanded” the scope of his investigation into the office’s [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Trump tariff formula misrepresents global trade economics, experts say
Spencer Platt/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — When President Donald Trump announced his controversial tariffs on virtually every trading partner in the world, he repeatedly called them “reciprocal” — a response, he said, to those nations that [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Adversaries attempting to recruit laid-off government workers as spies: Intelligence
Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Foreign adversaries including Russia and China are targeting government workers who have been laid off amid the Trump administration’s attempt to downsize to recruit as spies, according to [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Students protest Education Department closure in ‘Hands Off Our Schools’ rally
Fatih Aktas/Anadolu via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Hundreds of college and high school students representing student governments from some of the largest schools in the Washington, D.C., area will rally outside the Department of Education [Read More…]