Month: April 2025
Ag News
Montgomery wins 2025 International CCA of the Year
A central Illinois-based agronomist with Beck’s Hybrids has been named the 2025 International Certified Crop Adviser of the Year. “Really, really blown away. A little humbled in some ways to be standing with a crowd [Read More…]
ABC World News
Myanmar earthquake death toll tops 3,000 with hundreds still missing
(Photo by Jiang Chao/Xinhua via Getty Images) (LONDON) — The death toll from last week’s 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar rose to 3,085 people as of Thursday morning, according to an update released by the [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
What’s in Trump’s sweeping new tariff plan?
Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump unveiled sweeping new tariffs on Wednesday, which the White House dubbed “Liberation Day.” “This is one of the most important days in my opinion in [Read More…]
Latest News
Hand County fatal crash
A 22-year-old woman from Highmore died Wednesday morning in a single vehicle crash on SD Highway 14, one mile west of Wessington. The South Dakota Department of Public Safety is reporting around 9:30, the driver [Read More…]
ABC National News
After 6 months, 5 people still missing in North Carolina following Hurricane Helene
Mario Tama/Getty Images, FILE (NORTH CAROLINA) — Six months after Hurricane Helene destroyed communities across the Southeast, five people remain missing in North Carolina due to the storm, according to officials. The missing include one person from [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Trump announces ‘historic’ tariffs as he says America’s been ‘looted, pillaged’
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday unveiled a long-promised, sweeping set of baseline tariffs on all countries and what he described as “kind reciprocal” tariffs on nations he claimed were the [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Democrats vow to fight Trump’s tariffs ‘tooth and nail’ as they slam ‘chaotic trade war’
Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Democrats on Wednesday vowed to fight President Donald Trump’s tariffs “tooth and nail” and criticized his policies as having started an “absurd, crazy, chaotic trade war.” Senate Minority [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Massachusetts county debuts jail program with focus on older adults
Nancy Lane/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images (MIDDLESEX, Mass.) — To step inside the Older Adult Re-Entry unit, or OAR, at the Middlesex County, Massachusetts, jail is unlike entering any jail in the United States. [Read More…]
ABC Health News
More cities, counties start to remove fluoride from public drinking water
Grace Cary/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More cities and counties across the U.S. are moving to ban fluoride in public drinking water after Utah became the first state in the country to do so. The Miami-Dade County [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Filming for ‘Sunrise on the Reaping’ to begin in July
Murray Close/Getty Images Filming for the next Hunger Games film, Sunrise on the Reaping, is set to begin in July. Francis Lawrence, who has directed each Hunger Games film since Catching Fire in 2012, will [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘The Simpsons,’ ‘Family Guy,’ ‘Bob’s Burgers’ and ‘American Dad!’ renewed for four seasons
Fox Everything’s coming up Milhouse! Fox has ordered unprecedented four-season renewals for four of its animated TV shows. The Simpsons, Family Guy, Bob’s Burgers and American Dad! have all been renewed for four additional seasons. [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Cher pays tribute to ‘brilliant’ former beau Val Kilmer
Barry King/WireImage Cher has taken to social media to pay tribute to her former boyfriend, Batman Forever star Val Kilmer, who died Tuesday at the age of 65. “VALUS Will miss u,” she wrote on social [Read More…]
Ag News
Soybeans lower, corn and wheat finish the day mixed
Soybeans ended the day lower. May soybeans were down 4 and 3/4 cents at $10.29 and 1/2. The market spent much of the day under pressure ahead of the Trump administration’s tariff announcements. The USDA [Read More…]
Ag News
RFA hopeful tariffs won’t stunt ethanol export momentum
The Renewable Fuels Association wants to ensure tariffs don’t stunt U.S. ethanol export momentum. RFA CEO Geoff Cooper tells Brownfield there’s been dramatic growth the past decade. “In fact, 2024 was a record year by [Read More…]
Ag News
Water protections one step closer for Indiana farmers
The bill tackling water rights in Indiana has taken the next steps of advancing in the General Assembly. Associate director of policy engagement for Indiana Farm Bureau Caitlin Smith says the Indiana House unanimously passed Senate Bill [Read More…]
Ag News
Cattle futures higher waiting on direct business to develop
At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live and feeder cattle were up ahead of the week’s direct business. June live cattle closed $1.97 higher at $207.40 and August live cattle closed $1.60 higher at $203.92. May [Read More…]
Ag News
Closing Grain and Livestock Futures: April 2, 2025
May corn closed at $4.57 and 3/4, down 4 centsMay soybeans closed at $10.29 and 1/2, down 4 and 3/4 centsMay soybean meal closed at $287.20, down $5.10May soybean oil closed at 48.50, up 106 [Read More…]
ABC National News
Girlfriend of murdered Green Beret speaks out after his wife charged
ABC News (NEW YORK) — The killing of Clint Bonnell, a retired Green Beret whose remains were found in a North Carolina lake earlier this year, left his loved ones reeling. Now, his wife has [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
McMahon hijacks House Democrats’ presser after closed-door meeting outside Department of Education
Pool via ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Education Secretary Linda McMahon interrupted a press conference by House Democrats outside the Department of Education to give an impromptu statement after they met in a closed-door meeting earlier [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
Rep. Pettersen says it was ‘difficult’ decision to bring infant son to House floor to fight for proxy voting
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Democratic Rep. Brittany Pettersen, who on Tuesday held her newborn son during a speech on the House floor in support of a bipartisan effort to allow proxy voting for new lawmaker [Read More…]