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4 Oct 2024
The Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) has issued a G3, or "strong," geomagnetic storm watch Friday through Sunday. SWPC rates these storms arriving from the sun on a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being a minor storm and 5 an extreme storm. The G3 geomagnetic storm watches are due to a pair of coronal mass ejections (CME) that are anticipated to arri...
4 Oct 2024
Agricultural groups breathed a sigh of relief late Thursday when the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) agreed to return to work at ports along the East Coast and Gulf of Mexico. In a statement on their Facebook page Thursday evening, the ILA said: "International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) and the United States Maritime Alliance, ...
3 Oct 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- A U.S. senator takes to task the head of Deere and Company in a letter on Wednesday, accusing the company of violating the Clean Air Act and restricting farmers from fully repairing their own equipment while raising the costs of those repairs. In a letter to Deere CEO John C. May, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., includes a li...
3 Oct 2024
By Harshawn Ratanpal, KBIA Radio, Columbia, Mo. DREXEL, Mo. -- On a recent fall day, as Wilburn Harris did the rounds on his cattle farm in the Missouri town of Drexel, he was met with brown grass, cracked soil and half-empty ponds. He was used to it. Last year's drought was so bad he had to haul water and hay to his farm to keep the animals fed an...
2 Oct 2024
LINCOLN, Neb. (DTN) -- With the 2024 presidential election around the corner, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump recently gave a snapshot of where they stand on the issues that affect agriculture and rural Americans. In particular, the American Farm Bureau Federation posted to its website a list of questions posed to and...