Month: May 2025
Ag News
MO legislature approves Farm Bureau health plan
Missouri Farm Bureau is another step closer to offering a health plan to its members. On Thursday, state lawmakers approved Senate Bill 79, a bill that allows the non-profit membership organization to offer a health [Read More…]
Ag News
Input costs continue to push crop farmers below breakeven
An ag economist says rising input costs are expected to pressure profitability for row crop producers. Purdue University’s Michael Langemeier tells Brownfield farmers did see some relief when it comes to the cost of fuel and fertilizer [Read More…]
Ag News
Minnesota leaders set budget targets, including agriculture
Minnesota legislative leaders and Governor Walz have agreed on state budget targets, including for agriculture. Minnesota Farm Bureau director of public policy Loren Dauer says Republican and Democrat caucus leadership met with Walz this Thursday [Read More…]
Ag News
Pennycress advancements bringing new potential
A professor of plant breeding with Western Illinois University says advancements in pennycress genetic research are leading it closer to becoming a commercial crop option for farmers. Dr. Win Phippen tells Brownfield, “Ever since 2009, [Read More…]
Ag News
Cattle futures sharply lower on technical selling
At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live and feeder cattle were sharply lower on technical selling, watching direct business develop. June live cattle closed $2.77 lower at $211.17 and August live cattle closed $3.52 lower at [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
‘SNL’ star Taran Killam says TV relationship with Amanda Bynes was ‘very important … in my life’
Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images Saturday Night Live alum Taran Killam got candid recently about a “very important relationship” on one of his first-ever TV gigs, which he says helped launched his career. In a recent appearance on Fly on [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Watch Sydney Sweeney & Paul Walter Hauser try to pull off a heist in new trailer for ‘Americana’
Lionsgate Sydney Sweeney and Paul Walter Hauser are on a mission to steal a Native American artifact from the guys who stole it first in the trailer for the new movie Americana. Sweeney plays a [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Al Pacino joins Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Alba in ‘Maserati: The Brothers’ biopic
Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images Al Pacino is showing no signs of hitting the brakes on his acting career, as he’s just been announced as the latest actor to join the upcoming biographical film Maserati: The Brothers. The [Read More…]
ABC Politics News
What to know about birthright citizenship as Supreme Court weighs blocks on Trump’s order to end it
Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court on Thursday heard oral arguments over President Donald Trump’s emergency request to roll back nationwide injunctions blocking his executive order to end birthright citizenship. The rare May sitting of [Read More…]
ABC National News
Milwaukee judge accused of helping undocumented immigrant evade arrest seeks to dismiss indictment
ftwitty/Getty Images (MILWAUKEE) — Attorneys for Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan are seeking to dismiss her federal indictment on charges alleging she helped an undocumented immigrant evade arrest, claiming in a new court [Read More…]
ABC National News
Looming New Jersey Transit strike could impact 350,000 commuters, say officials
Gary Hershorn/ABC News (NEW YORK) — Some 350,000 New Jersey commuters could soon find themselves scrambling for other ways to get to work if contract disagreements between New Jersey Transit and its engineers’ union aren’t [Read More…]
Ag News
Ag Committee advances portion of reconciliation bill
The House Ag Committee advanced its portion of the budget reconciliation bill. Republican Derrick Van Orden from Wisconsin told the Ag Committee during Wednesday’s markup session farmers need certainty and this bill helps. “With reinvestment [Read More…]
Ag News
EPA insecticide strategy “workable”
The president of the Illinois Fertilizer and Chemical Association says farmers need to familiarize themselves with the EPA’s new insecticide strategy. KJ Johnson says it’s the agency’s next step in meeting court-ordered obligations under the [Read More…]
Ag News
Cash dairy prices higher Thursday
Cash dairy prices were higher except for butter Thursday on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Dry whey was up $0.02 at $0.5450. Five sales were recorded, ranging from $0.5250 to $0.54. Forty-pound cheese blocks were up [Read More…]
Latest News
Fatal crash Wednesday afternoon northeast of Armour
A 65 year old woman from Winner died and a 29 year old woman from Sioux Falls was seriously injured in a two vehicle crash 10 miles northeast of Armour Wednesday afternoon. The South Dakota [Read More…]
ABC Business News
Inflation is dropping but these prices are still soaring
Spencer Platt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Inflation cooled in the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” levies last month, dropping to a four-year low and defying fears of tariff-driven price hikes, government data this [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
Want a shot at stardom? Apply for new ‘Star Search’ reboot, underway at Netflix
Netflix For anyone with a special talent who’s ever dreamed of showcasing it to the world — the chance to do so could be yours. Netflix confirms a reboot of the legendary talent show Star Search is [Read More…]
ABC Entertainment News
In brief: Lili Taylor to play Mags in ‘Hunger Games’ prequel ‘Sunrise on the Reaping’ and more
Game of Thrones fans will be waiting another year for the new spinoff series to premiere. According to Entertainment Weekly, Warner Bros. Discovery has announced the upcoming show A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms will [Read More…]
Ag News
CONAB calls Brazil soybean crop record large
Brazil’s equivalent of the USDA says soybean production remains on its record track. CONAB says that with harvest nearly over, soybean production should be around 168.342 million tons, up 14% on the year, with the [Read More…]
ABC World News
Trump says Ukraine-Russia peace ‘not going to happen’ without Putin meet
Vladimir Putin & Donald Trump at G20 Osaka Summit 2019/ Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images (LONDON )– Ukrainian and Russian representatives will meet in Istanbul, Turkey, on Thursday, for their first meeting since the opening weeks of [Read More…]