Cargill reports net earnings dropped 20 percent in the second quarter of fiscal 2019. Cargill chairman Dave MacLennan says political and marketplace headwinds hurt many units, particularly protein and food ingredients. The privately held company showed net earnings of $741 million as of November 30th, a 20 percent decline from $924 million during the same …
Jan 03
OCM: GIPSA ruling disappoints but glad USDA will revisit
The executive director of the Organization for Competitive Markets, OCM, says they’re disappointed an appeals judge has sided with the USDA in its decision to pull GIPSA rules. Joe Maxwell tells Brownfield Ag News without those rules, livestock producers are bound by the Packers and Stockyards Act without any recourse when harmed, unlike any other industry, …
Jan 03
Governor Dennis Daugaard Announces Official Poem For Commissioning of USS South Dakota
In anticipation of the commissioning of the USS South Dakota submarine on Feb. 2 in Groton, Connecticut, Governor Dennis Daugaard is releasing the poem commissioned to honor the vessel and her crew.
Jan 03
Six dead, others critically hurt in fiery car crash in Florida: Officials
MattGush/iStock(GAINESVILLE, Fla.) — Six people are dead and others critically hurt after a fiery car crash on I-75 near Gainesville, Florida, officials said. Fifty gallons of diesel fuel spilled in the crash. The blaze has since been put out, Alachua County Fire Rescue said. Besides the six deaths, eight patients were “transported from the scene, …
Jan 03
Listen now: Chris Young proves he was “Raised on Country” with new song
ABC/Image Group LAChris Young’s new single, “Raised on Country,” is set to arrive on Friday, but you can preview a thirty second clip of the song now on his socials. “Got a little southern drawl in my talk/A little pickup truck on my highway/Got a little boot stomp in my walk/Little neon light in my Friday/Got …
Jan 03
US stocks tumble after Apple warning spooks investors
Nikada/iStock(NEW YORK) — Apple’s warning of a slowdown in China coupled with new negative data on manufacturing activity in the U.S. meant another sharply negative day for stocks. The Dow ended Thursday at 22,686.22, down 660.02 points or 2.83 percent. The S&P 500 ended at 2,447.89, down 62.14 points or 2.48 percent. The Nasdaq ended …
Jan 03
Mitchell Tenpenny celebrates “incredible” Christmas gift, heads to your TV Tuesday
ABC/Image Group LAMitchell Tenpenny’s first album, Telling All My Secrets, sold 20,000 units in its first week of release, making it the most successful debut by a new country artist in 2018. “What an incredible gift I received on Christmas Eve,” Mitchell recalls. “I was so pleasantly surprised with the news that Telling All My Secrets debuted on …
Jan 03
TSA thinks floppy-eared working dogs at the airport have a more welcoming face for passengers, children
lizcen/iStock(NEW YORK) — Since Transportation Security Administration chief David Pekoske took the job as the nation’s top transportation cop, his agency has pushed the message “Better Security Faster.” Perhaps they should expand that to “Better Security Faster, Furrier and Floppier.” Pekoske has taken a keen interest in expanding the canine program at TSA and he …
Jan 03
Protests rock parts of India after two women enter Hindu temple and break longstanding ban
ajijchan/iStock(KOCHI, India) — The entry of two women into a temple shrine in India has sparked violent protests and clashes across the state of Kerala and led to hundreds of arrests. India’s Supreme Court lifted a ban on women of menstruating age in the Sabarimala temple in September. Women between the ages of 10 and …
Jan 03
City of Mitchell set to remove snow from downtown parking lots early Friday morning
The City of Mitchell Street Department will be cleaning up snow from the following parking lots in the downtown area at 3:00 a.m. January 04, 2019 W. 7th Ave. and N. Rowley St. – Lots in the Southeast and Southwest Quadrant Parking lot in the 100 Block of West 6th Ave. on the north side …