TEUTOPOLIS, Ill. (WCIA) — While high temperatures sweeping Central Illinois this week caused air conditioning complications for many, one local farmer experienced a different side effect of the heat. According to the Teutopolis Fire Protection District, a local farmer contacted the department on Friday just before noon with concerns that the hay inside his barn […]
STORY: Zhang Junying, a corn farmer in China’s Shandong province was moved to tears on Thursday (June 20) as she realized her fields are now barren and destroyed. She, alongside many other farmers in the province’s capital Jinan, have found themselves facing ruin as drought and a heatwave has seized northern China. “I hope that […]
A young female dairy farmer said she could actually fit her feet into over-sized calving gloves as she struggles to find outdoor workwear that isn’t designed for six-feet tall men. Laura Hannon, who gave up her nursing career to tend to the family’s 162 hectare holding in Co Meath, feels swamped in clothes that are […]
Jun. 18—Despite a wet spring and some issues with a fungal crop disease, a local wheat farmer is optimistic that this year’s harvest should yield about as much as last year. Kent Mellendorf has been farming since 1990, and he’s been growing soft red winter wheat in a field just a few miles southwest of […]
Climate change deniers have found a new champion in Kenyan farmer Jusper Machogu. On social media, he has become known as a flagbearer for fossil fuels in Africa, but there is more to his campaign than meets the eye. At first glance, the 29-year-old Mr Machogu is just a young farmer with a knack for […]
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. An amateur paleontologist has discovered a new species of pterosaur, a flying reptile that lived alongside dinosaurs around 100 million years ago. Kevin Petersen, an avocado farmer and curator of the Kronosaurus Korner fossil museum […]
Jun. 10—Republican candidate James Winn, a farmer from Mannford, is running for the Oklahoma State Senate District 21 seat. Winn said he’s focused on “freedom and liberty” in his campaign. “I think we really need to focus on putting the government back in its rightful role,” Winn said. “I think the government’s outgrown what it’s […]
Claim: A man in South Africa who rescued a baby hippo and raised it died after the animal mauled him several years later. Rating: Rating: True For more than a decade, social media users have shared the story of a man in South Africa who reportedly adopted a baby hippopotamus that later killed him. Social […]
May 16—When the fuel pump on Nathan Wood’s truck started making strange noises last week, he pulled into the nearest gas station, Arnie’s Payless Gas on Highway 200 in Kootenai, Idaho, to see what the trouble might be. Since he was already there, Wood purchased a few lottery tickets. A few days later, the local […]
Keith Eckel couldn’t envision a better purpose for his grandfather’s farm in Newton Twp. than as the new home for Marley’s Mission, a nonprofit providing free equine-based therapy to children who experienced trauma. Eckel sold 32 acres of farmland to Marley’s Mission for $240,000 in 2012 — about $80,000 less than the asking price. “I […]
The last of nearly 100 tanker truckloads of treated sanitary sewer waste were applied May 7 to the soil of the historic, 122-acre Hickory Bluff Farms tucked just inside the northwest corner of Interstate 270 and Route 315. This left some neighbors concerned about traffic, odor and the proximity of biosolids to their homes, streams […]
May 7—A man who was indicted by a multi-county grand jury for trafficking marijuana through an illegal marijuana farm in Pittsburg County was sentenced. Yifan Lu, was indicted by the 20th Multi-County Grand Jury in September 2023. Lu was originally indicted on counts of manufacturing a controlled dangerous substance and trafficking of a controlled dangerous […]