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Connecting soil health and economic profitability
The Soil Health Partnership is working with farmers to link management practices like reduced tillage and cover crops to economic profitability. Illinois field manager Abigail Peterson says improving soil health isn’t enough for farmers facing [Read More…]
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More questions on trade relief package
The vice president of the American Soybean Association says although the $12 billion aid package will help farmers, it’s unclear how it will be divided between commodities. Davie Stephens grows corn and soybeans in Western [Read More…]
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Vegetable Grower’s field day
Brownfield’s Julie Harker will be on the ground for the Vegetable Grower’s field day at MU Bradford Research Center, Columbia, MO on Thursday August 2. Continue reading Vegetable Grower’s field day at Brownfield Ag News. [Read More…]
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Soybean exports strong, but a new low for beef sales
The USDA reports combined old and new crop soybean export sales for the week ending July 19th were larger than what most analysts were expecting, while corn and wheat were within pre-report estimates. Physical shipments [Read More…]
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Grocery prices predicted flat to 1% higher
The USDA is expecting flat to slightly higher prices at the grocery store this year. USDA food price economist Annemarie Kuhns says the latest grocery store food price forecast is flat to one percent higher. [Read More…]
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Man in custody after allegedly abducting Tennessee teen
Virginia State Police(BRISTOL, Va.) — The man who allegedly abducted a teenage girl in Tennessee was arrested Thursday morning, shortly after authorities issued an Amber Alert. The FBI’s field office in Knoxville, Tennessee, announced via [Read More…]
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The administration’s ‘trade aid’ proposal is short on details
Ag economist David Widmar says the aid package announced by the Trump Administration this week, to help American farmers impacted by the trade wars, lacks substance. Widmar, with Ag Economic Insights, says farmers don’t have [Read More…]
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Lawyer for family of man shot in Florida wants changes to Stand Your Ground
iStock/Thinkstock(CLEARWATER, Fla.) — A lawyer for the family of a man gunned down over a parking space in Florida called on lawmakers Thursday to change the state’s “Stand Your Ground” law to stop “wannabe cops [Read More…]
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Police issue Amber Alert for Tennessee teen in ‘extreme danger’ after alleged abduction
Virginia State Police(BRISTOL, Va.) — Police issued an Amber Alert Thursday morning for a missing teenage girl allegedly abducted by a man in Tennessee. Grace Olivia Galliher, 17, of Bristol, Tennessee, is believed to have [Read More…]
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Two Harvard grads created makeup line, Mented, for women of color
Mented Cosmetics(NEW YORK) — What started off as a friendship between two musical theater lovers has turned into a cosmetics business worth millions. Mented Cosmetics co-founders KJ Miller and Amanda Johnson became fast friends after [Read More…]
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Police arrest man in connection to California wildfires
KABC-TV(LOS ANGELES) — Police in California on Wednesday arrested a 32-year-old man accused of setting multiple wildfires in Riverside County that have scorched thousands of acres and forced mass evacuations. Brandon N. McGlover of Temecula [Read More…]
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Police arrest man in connection to California wildfires
KABC-TV(LOS ANGELES) — Police in California on Wednesday arrested a 32-year-old man accused of setting multiple wildfires in Riverside County that have scorched thousands of acres and forced mass evacuations. Brandon N. McGlover of Temecula [Read More…]
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Man detonates small explosive device near US embassy in Beijing
Emmanuel Wong/Getty Images(BEIJING) — An explosion near the US embassy in Beijing appears to have injured only the alleged bomber, officials said. The incident occurred around 1 p.m. local time in a public space off [Read More…]
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Chicago police fatally shot 24-year-old as he climbed a fence to flee, bodycam footage shows
Civilian Office of Police Accountability(CHICAGO) — The Civilian Order of Police Accountability in Chicago has released body camera footage showing the shooting a 24-year-old man while he was running away from officers last month. Maurice [Read More…]
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Trade disputes lead to more meat in cold storage
Trade disputes and heavy supplies are resulting in more meat piling up in U.S. cold-storage warehouses. A five percent uptick in beef and pork supplies, plus six percent more poultry reported this week by the [Read More…]
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Ground broken for new Missouri Soybean Headquarters
Missouri soybean farmers broke ground Tuesday for their new building in Jefferson City. Building chairman John Kelley tells Brownfield it will be a roughly 18-month project to develop the Center for Soy Innovation. “It’s just [Read More…]
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Northey: U.S. farmers need ‘more open and free trading environment’
USDA Undersecretary Bill Northey defends actions by the U.S. that have resulted in tariffs placed by other countries on U.S. farm goods. “We’ve taken some trade actions that we would argue are legal trade actions, [Read More…]
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Hog futures higher on strong wholesale values
At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live cattle futures closed higher on spillover support from lean hogs and higher wholesale values at midday. Feeder cattle closed mixed with pressure from the day’s higher move in corn. [Read More…]
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Trump: EU to buy more U.S. soybeans, comments on farmer aid
President Trump says there is progress in trade negotiations with the European Union. He says the two sides plan to, “work together towards zero tariffs, zero non-tariff barriers, and zero subsidies on non-auto industrial goods.” [Read More…]
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Wheat leads on talk of more crop loss in Europe
Soybeans were modestly higher on commercial and technical buying. Contracts were up and down for most of the session, with spillover support from corn and wheat against pressure from generally good crop conditions in most [Read More…]