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Weather radar picks up widespread bird migration
Photodisc/Thinkstock(HOUSTON) — The National Weather Service’s radar detected an unlikely pattern in Texas on Tuesday: widespread bird migration. The service tweeted a real-time animation of the ongoing migration, capturing spring birds in the Fort Worth, [Read More…]
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Feeding dairy cattle while milk prices remain low
A professor emeritus at the University of Illinois has some advice for dairy farmers trying to stay profitable during this tight margin environment. Mike Hutjens points to some measurement tools that look at the [Read More…]
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Fieldwork remains delayed in many areas
Across the Corn Belt, mild, dry weather in the upper Midwest contrasts with cool, showery conditions in the Ohio Valley. By April 22, corn planting had not begun, and was at least 10 percentage points [Read More…]
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CME dairy prices mixed Tuesday
Dairy prices were mixed Tuesday at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Class Three April milk was unchanged at $14.52 a hundredweight. May was up $.04 at $15.13. June was up $.06 to 15.55. July was up [Read More…]
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Amazon can now deliver packages to your car
ABC(NEW YORK) — Amazon’s latest delivery service will let customers receive packages inside their parked cars, the company announced Tuesday, giving ABC’s “Good Morning America” an exclusive first look. The latest iteration of Amazon Key [Read More…]
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Toronto officer praised for ‘terrific policing’ after arresting van attack suspect without firing shot
Handout via Storyful(TORONTO) — A Toronto police officer who confronted the man accused of plowing into pedestrians with a van Monday has been praised by officials for how he was able to apprehend the suspect [Read More…]
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Manhunt underway for person of interest in shooting of 2 Dallas police officers, civilian
iStock/Thinkstock(DALLAS) — A manhunt is underway for a person of interest in the North Dallas shooting that injured two police officers and a civilian at a Home Depot, authorities said. 911 dispatchers received a call [Read More…]
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Dead man’s girlfriend says police use of his finger in an effort to unlock iPhone after they killed him is ‘disgusting’
Largo Police(LARGO, Fla.) — After Linus Phillip Jr., 30, was killed by a police officer after he was stopped at a gas station in Largo, Florida, for heavily tinted car windows. Authorities went to the [Read More…]
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Ag economist says a corn rally possible
A University of Illinois ag economist says there could be significantly lower corn production this year, “I do see corn setting up for a possible rally. There’s a very bullish outlook currently. Monitoring the weekly (USDA) [Read More…]
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Senate Dems ask Perdue for help with Farm Bill partisan divide
Several Democrats on the Senate Ag Committee asked Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue to help calm the waters and the partisan divide over the House Ag Farm bill that was approved last week along party lines. [Read More…]
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Pruitt says hardship waivers are not subjectively granted
The EPA administrator says so-called hardship waivers are not granted subjectively. Scott Pruitt says granting the controversial waivers for Renewable Volume Obligations is under statutory constraint. Speaking Tuesday at the National Association of Farm Broadcasting [Read More…]
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A warm-up ahead for the Heartland
A slow-moving storm will drift northward along the Atlantic Seaboard, reaching New England on Thursday. Additional rainfall associated with the storm could reach 1 to 2 inches in the middle and northern Atlantic States. Meanwhile, [Read More…]
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Hog futures down on pork supply, demand pressure
Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures were mixed, mostly lower on a lack of follow through buying and position squaring ahead of this week’s widespread direct cash business. Also, while beef was higher at [Read More…]
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Trump administration to decide fate of nearly 9,000 Nepalis in US with humanitarian protection
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Pema Lama was at work in New York City three years ago when the 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck her home country of Nepal. Over the next four days, she didn’t sleep or [Read More…]
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Husband of woman killed on Southwest flight: ‘I immediately thought of the kids’
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Michael Riordan met his wife Jennifer in a shopping mall 29 years ago. He was 17 years old. She was just 15. Last week, Michael’s world changed when he learned Jennifer [Read More…]
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Stoneman Douglas school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz found to be indigent, will keep public defender
Amy Beth Bennett-Pool/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Florida Judge Elizabeth Scherer has found Nikolas Cruz to be indigent and the 19-year-old will keep his public defender, the State Attorney’s Office told ABC News today. Cruz is [Read More…]
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Firefighter rescues baby deer from brush fire
Monroe County BOCC/Facebook(MONROE COUNTY, Fla.) When Jen Shockley Brack saw a baby deer running for its life, she jumped into the flames to save the endangered Key deer fawn. “I wasn’t scared. I saw his [Read More…]
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High school golfer attacked by goose
iStock/Thinkstock(ADRIAN, Mich.) — Birdies on the golf course are usually a good thing. Just not when that bird is a very angry goose. At a high school golf tournament in Adrian, Michigan, a Blissfield High [Read More…]
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Waffle House shooting hero honored by Tennessee lawmakers in emotional ceremony
Jason Davis/Getty Images(NASHVILLE, Tenn.) — In an emotional ceremony Tuesday at the Tennessee Capitol, lawmakers gave James Shaw Jr., the man who stopped the deadly attack a Waffle House in a Nashville suburb, a standing [Read More…]
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Two Dallas police officers shot and critically wounded, authorities say
iStock/Thinkstock(DALLAS) — Two Dallas Police officers have been shot and critically wounded, the Dallas Police Department wrote on Twitter. A civilian was also shot, and his or her condition is unknown at this time, police [Read More…]