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Multi-year approach to weed management
Farmers continue to manage weeds with a multi-year approach. Winfield United agronomist Andy Schmidt says herbicide-resistance makes planning ahead essential. “My strategy is looking at the current weed spectrum I’m working with. Do I have [Read More…]
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Cattle, hog futures mixed ahead of USDA reports
At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, live cattle futures were mixed in limited trade volume on position squaring ahead of Thursday’s Cattle on Feed report and Friday’s Cold Storage report. Feeder cattle futures closed weak, pressured [Read More…]
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Soybeans down despite new sale to China
Soybeans were lower on profit taking and technical selling. China bought another 1,199,000 million tons of U.S. beans Wednesday morning, but traders bought the rumor Tuesday and then sold the fact. That’s still more than [Read More…]
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Perdue relieved WOTUS is getting reworked
The head of USDA says he’s relieved changes were made to the WOTUS rule. During a roundtable discussion in Tennessee Tuesday, Sonny Perdue described a scenario that could’ve played out under the old definition. “A [Read More…]
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Oregon couple finds black Santa Claus inflatable slashed in front yard: ‘It felt like a hate crime’
iStock/elenaleonova(BETHANY, Oregon) — A black couple who decorates their house every year for the holidays recently found their inflatable black Santa Claus destroyed not even a day after they put it up in their front [Read More…]
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New text-to-911 feature helps police save suicidal man: Report
iStock/Preto_perola(BOSTON) — A new text-to-911 feature recently released by a Massachusetts police department helped officers to save a suicidal man, according to a report. On Wednesday morning, the Randolph Police Department received 911 texts detailing [Read More…]
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Girl with cochlear implants gets classroom elf just like her
iStock/goodmoments(JOHNSON CITY, N.Y.) — When a little girl who wears cochlear implants was out of school, magic happened. Ann Redmore is a first grader at St. James School in Johnson City, New York. Earlier this [Read More…]
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‘This holiday will never be the same’: Officers killed by train leave behind daughters 1 week before Christmas
Twitter/@AJGuglielmi(CHICAGO) — Two Chicago police officers who were chasing a suspected gunman when they were hit and killed by a train Monday have left behind wives and children just one week before Christmas. “For these [Read More…]
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South Dakota woman found dead in vehicle was shot and killed, officials say
iStock/Thinkstock(COLUMBIA, Missouri) — A South Dakota woman found dead in her vehicle earlier this month had been fatally shot, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol. Officials said in a news release Tuesday that troopers [Read More…]
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Military dad feels ‘blessed’ to be reunited with wife and son days before Christmas
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Many military families are preparing for a holiday with a loved one far away, but for the Black family, their Christmas wish came early. Sgt. Tyler Black, who has been deployed [Read More…]
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US withdrawing troops from Syria, as White House declares victory over ISIS
Mark Wilson/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Pentagon announced it has started the process of withdrawing 2,000 U.S. troops from Syria, following White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders’ statement declaring victory over ISIS. Earlier on Wednesday, [Read More…]
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Water quality: “Keep the stinkin’ soil in place”
A soil health specialist with NRCS says farmers have five years to make soil changes on their own before they are forced to make changes for water quality. Doug Peterson, who covers the Iowa and [Read More…]
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U.S. ethanol stocks climb
U.S. ethanol production was unchanged last week, while supplies notched new multi-week highs. The U.S. Energy Information Administration says domestic production averaged 1.046 million barrels per day, steady on the week and below the four-week [Read More…]
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Florida deputy sheriff kills 3 relatives then himself, authorities say
carlballou/iStock(PLANT CITY, Fla.) — A deputy sheriff in South Florida took his own life near a school Wednesday after killing three people believed to be family members, authorities said. “Today, I stand in front of [Read More…]
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Most people would demand more than $1,000 to leave Facebook: Study
amesy/iStock(NEW YORK) — The average U.S. Facebook user would require more than $1000 to walk away from the social media platform for one year. In a new study published on Wednesday in the science Journal [Read More…]
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Yemeni mom separated from dying son by Trump travel ban ‘begged,’ ‘pleaded’ with officials for months: Lawyer
Believe_In_Me/iStock(SAN FRANCISCO) — A mother who spent more than a year fighting for a visa to be with her terminally ill child is on her way to the U.S. after being granted a visa waiver [Read More…]
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Fed raises short-term interest rates
amedved/iStock(WASHINGTON) — The Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised short-term interest rates by a quarter percentage point to a range of 2.25 percent to 2.5 percent. The move was widely expected by economists. The central bank [Read More…]
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Facebook gave Netflix, Spotify, Amazon access to user messages, friends’ data: Report
coffeekai/iStock(NEW YORK) — Facebook gave about a dozen companies wide access to its 2.2 billion users’ personal data without consent, including private messages, names and contact info for friends, according to a report in The [Read More…]
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Mild weather continues across the Heartland
Across the Corn Belt, any remaining snow cover has been significantly reduced by mild weather. Early Wednesday, snow depths include 2 inches in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, and an inch in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The [Read More…]
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A moisture-laden pattern for the Heartland
A complex storm system developing across the nation’s mid-section will become a more cohesive low pressure system on Thursday over the Southeast. From there, the storm will move almost due northward into eastern Canada by [Read More…]