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Farmers Borrowing Less and Tractor Sales Soar Thursday Apr 22nd, 2021 From the Ag Information Network, I’m Bob Larson with your Agribusiness Update. **The USDA is looking to buy as much as 485,000 cartons of domestic grapes for the school lunch program and other federal food and nutrition assistance programs. According to www.thepacker.com, bids from U.S. grape shippers are due April 27th. Accepted bids will be announced by May 11th, and fresh grape deliveries are to be made betwee...

In spite of some good news on the legalization front, cannabis stocks traded down this week, largely driven by lackluster earnings reports out of big Canadian companies. On Monday, New Mexico became the latest state to legalize adult-use cannabis, after Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed the Cannabis Regulation Act. Sales are expected to begin before April 2022. Following a legalization wave led by New York and Virginia, this approval puts more than 43% of Americans living in legal cannabis jur...

Cannabis software firm Akerna Corp (NASDAQ:KERN) expects national cannabis retail sales to reach $95 million on 4/20, the unofficial marijuana holiday. That is according to a new Flash Report out of the Denver-based company. Flower Power Akerna says the top-selling product category on Tuesday, April 20, will be flower, accounting for 49% of all legal sales. To put this into perspective: flower has claimed 45% of all legal cannabis sales daily in 2021. Vape pens and cartridges will be the secon...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. During a question-and-answer session following his opening remarks at the Federal Bar Association Qui Tam Conference earlier this year, Senator Chuck Grassley said that the government needed to "come down with a sledgehammer, not a toothpick" against fraud. 1 Senator Grassley, a co-sponsor of the 1986 Amendments to the federal False Claims Act (FCA or the Act) and a longtime proponent of the...

As many as 448 central sector infrastructure projects have reported a cost overrun of over Rs 4.02 lakh crore as of February 21, 2021. The monthly Flash Report by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation said that 539 projects are running behind schedule. "Total original cost of implementation of the 1,739 projects was Rs 22,18,210.29 crore and their anticipated completion cost is likely to be Rs 26,20,618.44 crore, which reflects overall cost overruns of Rs 4,02,408.15 crore ...

Senior Vice President of Ag Services, Curt Blades discusses a recent report that shows U.S. tractor sales are up 18 percent for the year.

Tweet We often say about Democrats, “All they had to do was not be crazy.” Even though the effort to recall California Governor Gavin Newsom has gained traction over the last month, organizers are still lacking about 500,000 signatures before a mid-March deadline, and Newsom still (publicly) enjoys decent job approval ratings. Why would California Democratic Party officials suddenly call a press conference labeled “Defend Against the California Coup,” complete with its own hashtag? Ve...

Print Continue to article content Duncan Hunter walks out of Federal Courthouse on December 3, 2019 in San Diego, California. | Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images California conservatives rebuke Trump pardon of Duncan Hunter OAKLAND — President Donald Trumps full pardon of Duncan Hunter isnt playing well in the convicted congressmans home turf — even among GOP conservatives that have supported Trump. Jon Fleischman, publisher of the influential Flash Report and a former state GOP vice chair, is a...

Hospital operating margins fell while expenses rose above budget expectations, according to the latest Kaufman Hall Flash Report. Hospital revenues and volumes declined across most metrics during November but inpatient volumes increased as COVID-19 hospitalizations rose, according to For the first time this year, inpatient volumes eclipsed 2019 levels as patient days were up 4% in November, according to Kaufman Hall. Meanwhile, discharges fell 5.1% year-over-year and the average length of stay...