Ryan Hanrahan

Hartford

Chief Meteorologist at WVIT-TV (West Hartford, CT)

Chief Meteorologist at @NBCConnecticut - the NBC owned station in Hartford/New Haven, CT. Catch me M-F 4/5/6/11p. 🏳️‍🌈⛈🌪❄️

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Articles

Lawmakers Send More Signals Farm Bill Uncertain This Year

1 week ago | m.farms.com | Ryan Hanrahan

By Ryan Hanrahan Politico’s Grace Yarrow and Marcia Brown reported Wednesday that Republican “lawmakers are currently weighing whether to put Biden-era conservation programs into their party-line megabill that might have otherwise been included in their separate reauthorization of federal farm programs, according to three people granted anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.” Yarrow and Brown reported that the possibility of moving conservation programs into the megabill is “sending...
China Says It Doesn't Need U.S. Grain

1 week ago | farmers-exchange.net | Ryan Hanrahan

China Says It Doesn't Need U.S. Grain Published: Friday, May 2, 2025 The following is from Ryan Hanrahan, farm policy news editor for the University of Illinois.
Ag Leaders Comment on the Life of Jimmy Carter

2 weeks ago | agritimesnw.com | Ryan Hanrahan

Agri-Pulse's Philip Brasher reported that "Jimmy Carter, the former president and statesman who died at 100, was famously proud of being a peanut farmer and is being remembered for working to address food insecurity through modern farming practices and technology, and for giving time to help his old industry.
Bayer CEO warns company may stop making Roundup in a matter of “months, not years”

2 weeks ago | farmtalknews.com | Ryan Hanrahan

The Wall Street Journal’s Patrick Thomas reported that “Roundup’s time may be up. Pharmaceutical and agriculture conglomerate Bayer said it could stop producing the world’s most popular weedkiller, unless it gets court protection against lawsuits blaming the herbicide for causing cancer.”“Roundup has generated tens of billions of dollars in sales over time for Bayer and Monsanto, the biotech seed giant and developer of Roundup that Bayer acquired in 2018,” Thomas reported.
Lawsuits Prove Costly for Bayer

2 weeks ago | farmers-exchange.net | Ryan Hanrahan

Lawsuits Prove Costly for Bayer Published: Friday, April 25, 2025 The following is from Ryan Hanrahan, farm policy news editor for the University of Illinois. The Wall Street Journal's Patrick Thomas reported that "Roundup's time may be up.
House Ag Republicans Eyeing Early May For Spending Cuts

3 weeks ago | m.farms.com | Ryan Hanrahan

By Ryan Hanrahan Politico’s Meredith Lee Hill reported that “House Republicans are eyeing May 8 for the Agriculture Committee to advance its portion of the mega bill to enact President Donald Trump’s vast domestic agenda, according to two people granted anonymity to share private scheduling details.” “This target date, while weeks away, is still an ambitious timeline as Republicans are trying to resolve the massive gap between the House’s instruction for the committee to accomplish $230...
Farm Bankruptcies on the Rise Again in 2025

3 weeks ago | m.farms.com | Ryan Hanrahan

By Ryan Hanrahan Bloomberg Law’s Alex Wolf and Skye Witley reported that “family farm bankruptcies increased by 55% last year compared to 2023 and are trending even higher this year as farmers continue to grapple with depressed agricultural commodity prices and high input costs.” “And while much of the industrywide distress predates his second stint in the White House, (President Donald) Trump has quickly nudged more farmers closer to the brink of going under and created turbulence for...
Back-to-back shutouts

4 weeks ago | buffalobulletin.com | Ryan Hanrahan

The Buffalo High School boys soccer team dominated this past weekend, beating Douglas 4-0 at home on Friday and Rawlins 8-0 on the road on Saturday. The combined output of 12 goals in one weekend was one of the Bison’s best offensive displays in recent memory, and the game against Rawlins was Buffalo’s highest-scoring single game since 2020.
Discussions of farmer tariff relief package

4 weeks ago | farmtalknews.com | Ryan Hanrahan

Fortune’s Stuart Dyos reported on Sunday that “Trump administration officials and lawmakers have begun exploring a relief package for U.S. farmers as agricultural trade groups warn of economic repercussions from tariffs.” “‘We are setting up the infrastructure that if, in fact, we have some economic consequences in the short term to our farmers and perhaps our ranchers, that we will have programs in place to solve for that,’ Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told reporters last week,”...
Corn acres will top 95 million in 2025, USDA says

4 weeks ago | farmtalknews.com | Ryan Hanrahan

Bloomberg’s Michael Hirtzer reported Monday that “US farmers are boosting corn planting to a five-year high as the looming trade war makes America’s mostly widely grown crop a relatively safe bet even as demand is at risk of being shaken up by reciprocal tariffs.” “Farmers are expected to plant 95.3 million acres of corn this spring, up 5% from a year ago and more than the 94.4 million predicted in a Bloomberg survey, according to the US Department of Agriculture’s annual prospective planting...