Steve Nedved
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Nov 22
More favorable weather, for now, across the Heartland
In the Corn Belt, seasonally cool, mostly dry weather is allowing some producers to complete corn and soybean harvest efforts. However, soils remain wet in much of the eastern Corn Belt, where Ohio’s topsoil moisture was rated 71% surplus on November 18. Currently, a few snow showers are occurring downwind of the Great Lakes. …
Nov 22
Talking turkey
Steve Olson, executive director of the Minnesota Turkey Growers Association, says the state is recovering from the high path avian influenza outbreak in 2015. He also has some interesting insight on how trade impacts the industry. Continue reading Talking turkey at Brownfield Ag News.
Nov 22
Arctic blast producing coldest Thanksgiving in decades
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Thursday will be the coldest Thanksgiving in decades for most of the Northeast, the result of an Arctic blast of air that’s pushing temperatures 15 to 25 degrees colder than a year ago. Even with a sunny sky forecast on Thursday, little warming is expected throughout the day. The last time …
Nov 22
A more active pattern over the Holiday Weekend
A changing weather pattern will feature a pair of Pacific storms; each will traverse the West before crossing the central and eastern U.S. The first storm system will produce widespread, late-week precipitation across the eastern half of the country. The closely trailing second system will reach the Great Plains by Saturday and the Ohio …
Nov 22
Dense Fog Advisory issued November 22 at 3:24AM MST until November 22 at 8:00AM MST by NWS
…DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM CST THIS MORNING… The National Weather Service in Sioux Falls has issued a Dense Fog Advisory, which is in effect until 9 AM CST this morning. * VISIBILITY…Visibility of a quarter mile or less is likely through mid morning. * IMPACTS…In addition to the dense fog reducing …
Nov 22
Amtrak cars detach near Albany, stranding riders ahead of Thanksgiving
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Amtrak passengers were left in the cold on Wednesday night when a mechanical issue caused two train cars to detach, stranding riders on a dark railway ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. Amtrak Train 68 was traveling from Montreal to New York City on Wednesday evening when two of its cars, with 287 …
Nov 21
Firefighter pilots on California peak rescue amid wildfire: ‘There was really nowhere to run, nowhere to go’
ABC News(LOS ANGELES) — Two firefighter pilots who rescued three people and their dogs off a California peak told ABC News the fire roaring toward the ridge would likely have killed the stranded group within minutes. The pilots had been making water drops on the Woolsey fire in Southern California, when their radio crackled with …
Nov 21
Police make arrest in killing, sex assault at St. Louis Catholic Supply store
iStock/Thinkstock(ST. LOUIS, Mo.) — A Missouri man was arrested in connection with a heinous crime spree at a Catholic Supply chain store in St. Louis in which a female customer was fatally shot and at least one other woman was sexually assaulted, officials said. Thomas Bruce, 53, is now in police custody on 14 charges …
Nov 21
American killed by isolated tribe in India after fishermen smuggled him onto the island: Police
iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — An American man has been killed by a remote tribe after taking an illegal trip to one of the Andaman Islands in India. John Chau, 27, was killed on North Sentinel Island, South Andaman Senior Superintendent of Police Vijay Singh told ABC News. The island is home to the indigenous Sentinelese people. …
Nov 21
New dairy insurance program covers 3 billion pounds of milk and growing
The new dairy revenue protection insurance program is expected to cover about five percent of milk production in the U.S. during the first quarter, and a USDA official says many producers have already signed up. “It went on sale October 9th and we’re up 1.5 billion pounds of milk already covered.” Martin Barbre with USDA’s …