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AUSTIN—With the potential for severe weather approaching, Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar reminds Texans they can purchase certain items tax-free during the state’s sales tax holiday for emergency preparation supplies, which begins at 12:01 am on Saturday, April 24, and ends at midnight on Monday, April 26.

AUSTIN—Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar today said state sales tax revenue totaled $2.63 billion in March, 2.4 percent less than in March 2020. This amount, however, includes some revenue remitted in March that in normal circumstances would have been received by the state in February.

AUSTIN—Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar reminds business owners that for many property types, April 15 is the deadline to file property tax renditions with their county appraisal districts. Different deadlines apply for certain regulated property.

SACRAMENTO—Texas small nonfarm businesses are reminded this week that the deadline to apply for a SBA federal disaster loan for economic injury are rapidly approaching. Disaster Declaration No.

AUSTIN—Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced last week that he would send cities, counties, transit systems, and special-purpose taxing districts $762.5 million in local sales tax allocations for March, 0.5 percent less than in March 2020. These allocations are based on sales made in January by businesses that report sales tax returns monthly.

The Environmental Protection Agency’s 2018 decision to reauthorize dicamba formulations was unduly influenced by political interference and ignored critical scientific evidence on the herbicide’s risks, Emily Unglesbee reports for DTN/ The Progressive Farmer. That’s according to internal EPA email obtained by DTN and verified by the agency. Dicamba is notorious for drifting to nearby fields and killing crops and trees that aren’t genetically engineered to resist it.

AUSTIN–Crude oil and natural gas production reported to the Texas Railroad Commission in December 2020 came from 168,775 oil wells and 86,267 gas wells. The RRC reports that from January 2020 to December 2020, total Texas reported production was 1.461 billion barrels of crude oil and 10.197 trillion cubic feet of total gas.

TEMPLE—The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Texas is now accepting applications through April 9, for Fiscal Year 2021 funding for the Conservation Stewardship Program. NRCS plans to invest more than $8 million for new enrollments this year for Texas.

Winter Storm Uri, which blasted through the entire state of Texas, caused at least $600 million in agricultural losses, according to preliminary data from Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service (https://agrilifeextension.tamu.edu/) agricultural economists.

TEMPLE—The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service in Texas has extended its application deadline for the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP) from March 1 to March 10, due to recent weather-related power outages across Texas. While NRCS accepts easement applications on a continuous basis, applications for the next funding consideration must be submitted by March 10.