Steve Nedved
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Apr 04
“Cultivate”removes food wastes, helps the hungry
A non-profit organization in Indiana might have an answer to food waste and hunger. Cultivate collects unused food and re-purposes it into take-home meals. They only use foods that have been made but never served. Continue reading “Cultivate”removes food wastes, helps the hungry at Brownfield Ag News.
Apr 04
More than 1,000 bodies discovered in Belarus mass grave a dark reminder of Holocaust
SERGEI GAPON/AFP/Getty Images(BREST, Belarus) — The city of Brest, on the Belarusian side of its border with Poland, has kept a terrible secret in its city’s historic district for almost 80 years: a mass grave containing more than 1,000 bodies. The prime real estate inside the old city of Brest was once a Jewish ghetto, …
Apr 04
Damaging winds, large hail threaten Deep South
ABC News(NEW YORK) — A storm system that moved in from the west brought baseball-size hail to parts of Texas and Oklahoma on Wednesday. The storm system will move east into the Mississippi River Valley on Thursday with severe weather stretching from New Orleans to Jackson, Miss., and into Shreveport, La., and eastern Texas. The …
Apr 04
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg tells ABC News he’s ‘confident’ about 2020 election
(Peter Dasilva/ABC)(MENLO PARK, Calif.) — Just over a year after the Cambridge Analytica scandal threw Facebook at the center of a global controversy, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told George Stephanopoulos he was proud of the progress the company has made in combating the spread of misinformation and major privacy breaches. He defended the company’s actions …
Apr 04
Even though Old Dominion has “[Made] It Sweet,” Matthew Ramsey insists they’re not very far from being a bar band
RCA Nashville Old Dominion is currently the reigning CMA and ACM Vocal Group of the Year, and their latest hit, “Make It Sweet,” is in the top five. But if the five-man band seems a little in disbelief about their overwhelming success, lead singer Matthew Ramsey says there’s a good reason: it wasn’t that long …
Apr 03
Governors emphasize flood control and more state involvement in meeting with Corps
From left to right, Missouri Governor Mike Parson, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds and Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts The governors of Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri met with officials of the Army Corps of Engineers Wednesday afternoon in Council Bluffs, Iowa to discuss Missouri River flooding. At a news conference following that meeting, the governors said they …
Apr 03
Actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin face judge in massive ‘Varsity Blues’ college entrance scam
YinYang/iStock(BOSTON) — Hollywood actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin made their first formal appearances Wednesday in Boston federal court along with ten other parents charged in the massive college entrance scandal in which prosecutors say they allegedly lied and bribed to get their children into elite schools across the country. While there was no red …
Apr 03
Flood Warning issued April 03 at 7:42PM MDT until further notice by NWS
…The Flood Warning is cancelled for the following rivers in Minnesota… West Fork Des Moines River at Jackson …The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in South Dakota…Nebraska…Iowa…Minnesota… James River At Huron
Apr 03
Video tours demystify pork production
Photo: SDSU Extension People everywhere can tour a state-of-the-art swine research unit thanks to video live-streaming. South Dakota State University swine specialist Bob Thaler says after a new swine unit was opened near the campus, a student began giving video tours. “Just using cellphone, she can walk through our farrowing rooms, gestation, our finishing barns,” …
Apr 03
Market economist surprised by small spring wheat intentions
An extension grain market economist was surprised by the low spring wheat number in last week’s USDA Prospective Planting report. “I’ve been looking for a big shift in the Dakotas away from soybeans and more into spring wheat, a traditional crop for them. And we’re not necessarily seeing that there.” Ed Usset with the University …