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Facebook blocks, then restores Declaration of Independence post
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — A newspaper serially publishing the Declaration of Independence on social media this week got an unexpected surprise: Facebook had blocked one of the posts. The Liberty County Vindicator, a newspaper in southeastern Texas, [Read More…]
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HHS officials working to meet deadline on migrant family reunification
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Thursday that the administration is working to meet a court-ordered deadline on ensuring that migrant children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border be [Read More…]
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US insists it’s not softening its demands as Pompeo heads to North Korea
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is flying to North Korea for his fourth round of meetings with nuclear negotiators, as the Trump administration insists it is not backing down from its demand for [Read More…]
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2018 NAFB Agribusiness Luncheon
Brownfield’s Tom Steever will be on the ground in Kansas City on Tuesday, July 10 for the 2018 NAFB Agribusiness Luncheon Continue reading 2018 NAFB Agribusiness Luncheon at Brownfield Ag News.
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June was abnormally wet, hot and humid for Illinois
June weather ended abnormally hot and humid in Illinois. State Climatologist Jim Angel tells Brownfield, temperatures ran about three degrees above normal for June and precipitation was two inches above normal. “When we look at [Read More…]
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Tariffs expected to beat already depressed milk prices
Analysts say dairy farmers could be further into the red for the remaindered of the year if dairy tariffs go into effect this week. National Milk Producers Federation economists say Mexico’s retaliatory tariffs on most [Read More…]
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Weekly ethanol production holds near recent highs
U.S. ethanol production backed off a little last week but stayed near the 2018 highs. The U.S. Energy Information Administration says production averaged 1.067 million barrels a day, down 5,000 on the week, but still [Read More…]
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Newsrooms hold moment of silence Thursday in honor of Capital Gazette shooting victims
Alex Wroblewski/Getty Images(ANNAPOLIS, Md.) — It’s been an emotional week for the survivors of the shooting at a newspaper office in Maryland, marked with tributes to their slain colleagues. First there was confusion over the [Read More…]
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Rescue efforts continue to save soccer team trapped in flooded cave in Thailand
Asaf Zmirly(CHIANG RAI, Thailand) — In northern Thailand, rescuers are working around the clock to save 12 boys and their soccer coach who have been trapped inside a partly flooded cave for almost two weeks. [Read More…]
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Protester who climbed Statue of Liberty charged in federal court
ABC News(WASHINGTON) — The woman who scaled Lady Liberty on the Fourth of July was formally charged in federal court Thursday. Therese Okoumou, 44, of Staten Island, New York, was charged with trespassing, interference with [Read More…]
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Duchess Meghan attends reception for young leaders with Prince Harry
Yui Mok – WPA Pool/Getty Images(LONDON) — The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan, met with young leaders from across the Commonwealth at a reception Thursday at Marlborough House in London. [Read More…]
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HHS officials working to meet deadline on migrant family reunification
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Thursday that the administration is working to meet a court-ordered deadline on ensuring that migrant children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border be [Read More…]
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Interest rates to farmers up 1.5% since end of 2015
The latest quarterly report by the Federal Reserve shows ag bankers are slowly raising interest rates on operating loans to farmers. Lenders charged an average rate of nearly 5 percent this spring, up from 3.5 [Read More…]
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Rain dampens hope for good yields in SW Minnesota
Extreme rainfall is dampening hopes for good crop yields in southwest Minnesota. University of Minnesota extension educator David Bau is based in Worthington, and says the area has seen close to a foot of rain [Read More…]
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Minnesota Pork CEO calls for resolution to trade disputes
Farm groups continue to call for resolution on trade disputes. David Preisler, CEO of the Minnesota Pork Producers, tells Brownfield American pig farmers have been hit hard by retaliatory tariffs from China and Mexico. “Now [Read More…]
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Tariffs set to go into effect
Tariffs on $34 billion in Chinese goods are set to go into effect tomorrow, and China has said it will retaliate immediately with equal tariffs on US goods, including soybeans and cars. In a recent [Read More…]
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Lake Springfield Watershed Soil Health Field Day.
Brownfield’s Tom Steever will be in Auburn, IL on July 26, 2018 for the Lake Springfield Watershed Soil Health Field Day. Continue reading Lake Springfield Watershed Soil Health Field Day. at Brownfield Ag News.
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Monsoon rains could damper rescue efforts to save soccer team in Thailand cave
Linh Pham/Getty Images(CHIANG RAI, Thailand) — With heavy rains forecast for this weekend, rescuers are racing against time and Mother Nature to drain a partly flooded cave in northern Thailand where 12 boys and their [Read More…]
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Couple sickened with nerve agent not ‘deliberately targeted’
iStock/Thinkstock(AMESBURY, U.K.) — A couple who has fallen critically ill in England is at the center of a widening investigation into whether they were exposed to a Soviet-era nerve agent that previously sickened a former [Read More…]
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Transitioning to group housing of sows
At the recent World Pork Expo, we stopped by the Nedap Livestock Management booth to visit with pork producers who own and/or manage facilities that have converted from gestation stalls to group sow housing. On [Read More…]