May drive down prices. What weve seen in the last few years in argentina is producers have been stockpiling, especially soybeans because of high inflation, the export tax and the value of the peso. Said chris benson, director of appliede agriculture and food studies at morningside college. Argentinian tax agency. Afip. Estimat es that farmers are holding as much as 11 point 4 billion dollars of grain that will now likely enter the market. And as argentina awaits. A possible devaluation of its currency. More changes may come. So i think we could easily be into multiple years here of lower prices in relation to what weve seen in the last five years, said chris benson. Argentinas reduce export taxes on soybeans to zero percent by 2022. Experts say. Us grain markets will definitely be affected by the change. However its not yet clear how much of an impact it will make reporting live in studio Deborah Souverain abc 9 news. Tim a judge has declared a mistrial in the case of Baltimore Police
Of the iowa stem program. This morning, students partiicipated in an internatnal initiative called the hour of code. The program aims to teach 100 Million Students around the world at least one hour of computer coding. Within the next week more than 800 schools and organizations will take part in the hour of code. Today, kids at loess hills elementary taught Community Members about coding, including tim the e udents principal says thihi is a big piece of their r rriculum. Since were a programming specialty school, we do programming all the time. We do it every week. But when the week comes around where the whole world does it at the same time, thats even more special to us. So we want to do the hour of code because thats what loess hills is all about. Loess hills elementary recently received a 4 thousand dollar technololo award that coincides with the hour of code program tim on cam students in spencer, iowa are getting ready to use thousands of dollars of new Sports Equipment and gear
Rehnstrom, tim has the night off. Tomorrow and midnight, siouxland will ring in the new year. 2015 brought in plenty of snow. Busy now clearing before the city gets busy tomorrow night. Abc 9s bria bell is out in downtown sioux city with more jenna on how the town is getting ready for you to ring in the new year. Bria jenna, serves as one of the busiest days for some businesses, and downtown sioux city was preparring for the large number of people expected to be out tomorrow evening. Some bars and Taxi Services are offering customers freebies to bring in the new year. Its just kind of a night where everyone goes out a night to celebrate and have a good time and bring in the new year, said mettleton. New years eve is tomorrow night and sioux city is gearing up for the thousands of people expected to be out celebrating while bringing in the new year. Winter storms city wants to make sure roads are clear for drivers to get to and from their destinations. Theres going to be alot of people
Our state becomes for republican and Democratic Candidates alike tim no different for siouxland where republican president ial candidate dr. Ben carson is taking his campaign on a 3day swing through the area. Lukas voss caught up with him on the campaign trail thanks tim and jenna and dr. Carson had quite the trip on his schedule today including a makeup appearance in spencer after it was canceled the last time due to the winter storm. He drew large crowds both in orange city and sioux city using his chance to address siouxlanders up close and personal. Nats clapping orange city. Dr. Ben carson took time today to travel through siouxland to campaign for his bid to be the next president of the united states. He was in spencer. Before heading to storm lake onto orange city and capping of his day off in sioux city. The apperance at Northwestern College was espeally important town hall style citizens to a chance the candidate. H e was very comfortable and appreciated the interact with the
Court in two weeks and could face up to a decade in prison if convicted. Marci gonzalez, abc news, elkins park, pennsylvania jenna an update now on a story we brought to you yesterday, a story we brought to you yesterday, new details surrounding the car accident that has a cherokee woman facing two counts of attempted murder. Jenna Court Documents in the case reveal that prior to crashing head on into oncoming traffic Melissa Ebert stated she would killlloth her passenenr ananherself. Authorories say ebert was traveling with Damien Johnson september 9th when the two got into an argument. The crash resulted in both johnson and the driver of the oncoming car suffering serious injuries according to a blood sample taken after the crash, eberts blood alcohol content was point oheight eight. Ebert is currently charged with several charges including two counts of attempted murder. Shes scheduled to be in court jenna three people from sioux city have been charged in a prostitution sting in sio