Steve Nedved
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May 03
Record flooding continues in Midwest, South to deal with more severe storms
ABC News(NEW YORK) — A third straight day of severe storms is about to become a fourth. There have been 60 reported tornadoes over the last three days, including 12 reported tornadoes on Thursday, with eight of them in Arkansas. In addition, persistent rainfall of more than 8 inches in some areas has caused many …
May 03
Kane Brown challenges Jason Aldean to a duel as they head out on tour
ABC/Image Group LA It’s been a busy week for Kane Brown: he’s barely back from Wednesday’s Billboard Music Awards in Vegas, in time to hit the road with Jason Aldean tonight on his Ride All Night Tour. Even though Kane’s still a relative newlywed — having just tied the knot in October — he and …
May 03
Safety leader says Wisconsin ROPS bill would help more farmers stay alive
Wisconsin lawmakers are considering 250-thousand dollars in annual support to add roll-over protection structures to older farm tractors. Melissa Ploeckelman with the National Farm Medicine Center in Marshfield, Wisconsin says older tractors by John Deere and Kubota are relatively inexpensive to retrofit, but Case and International tractors cost more. “A Case tractor, to put a …
May 02
South Dakota farmer worries that it’s still too cold for newly planted corn
A Northeastern South Dakota farmer considers himself fortunate to have at least started corn planting, but he’s worried that he and others around him will be late getting row crops in. Todd Hanten tells Brownfield he likes to finish planting corn by May 5th, but wet fields are making that unlikely. “Here we are May …
May 02
Missouri farmer’s prediction becomes reality
A Missouri farmer who told Brownfield on Monday he was hesitant to plant some fields in the bottom lands – is now looking at flooding. Mark Scott predicted it would happen, “I’m expecting small stream flooding because the creek that I’m sitting along right now is half full of backwater from the Mississippi (river) so …
May 02
Japan trade talks good for US beef and pork sectors
The head of the US Meat Export Federation says the longer the US waits to get a trade deal with Japan, the more it could cost US beef and pork producers. Dan Halstrom says talk of an ag-only deal with Japan is good news. “We need to get some agricultural trade deal as soon as …
May 02
#MNLeg: State budget moves to conference committee
The Minnesota House and Senate have completed work on the state budget. House Ag Committee chair Jeanne Poppe says the bills now go into conference. “Of note are certainly the ag and food finance (as well as) policy bills, we did two different bills. So we’ve got the finance bill that passed off the floor …
May 02
“Some People Do” release new music, and Old Dominion’s about to
ABC/Image Group LAOld Dominion’s currently at number one this week with “Make It Sweet,” but Thursday night, we’ll get to hear what will likely be their next hit. “Feel like dropping a new song tonight,” the reigning CMA and ACM Vocal Group of the Year shared on their socials, adding the hashtag #SomePeopleDo. A short video …
May 02
Man who plotted NYC subway bombing to be released after nearly a decade of cooperation
Willbrasil21/iStock(NEW YORK) — It has been ten years since Najibullah Zazi and two friends plotted to detonate homemade explosives on the New York City subway system. At the time, then-Attorney General Eric Holder called it “one of the most serious terrorist threats” the nation had faced since Sept. 11. On Thursday, a federal judge in …
May 02
Kenny Chesney’s Trip Around the Sun is “Billboard”‘s Top Country Tour
ABC/Image Group LAKenny Chesney’s 2018 Trip Around the Sun was last year’s Top Country Tour, according to Billboard. The superstar from East Tennessee picked up the honor Wednesday night at the Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas. “You don’t tour for awards,” Kenny points out. “Every night when we hit that stage and hear those fans, that’s the real award.” …