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Federal Tipoffs Involving Iowa Newsletter for Friday March 29, 2024 ( 5 items )  

National Agricultural Statistics Service: U.S. Farmers Expect to Plant Less Corn, More Soybean Acres
WASHINGTON, March 29 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service issued the following news release on March 28, 2024: Producers surveyed across the United States intend to plant 90.0 million acres of corn in 2024, down 5% from last year, according to the Prospective Plantings report released today by USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). Planted acreage intentions for corn are down or unchanged in 38 of the 48 estimating states. A  more

SBA Economic Injury Disaster Loans Available to Missouri Small Businesses
SACRAMENTO, California, March 29 -- The Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Assistance issued the following news release on March 28, 2024: Small nonfarm businesses in 57 Missouri counties and neighboring counties in Illinois, Iowa and Kansas are now eligible to apply for low interest federal disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration, announced Francisco Sanchez Jr., associate administrator for the Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience at the Small Business   more

SBA Economic Injury Disaster Loans Available to Missouri Small Businesses
SACRAMENTO, California, March 29 -- The Small Business Administration issued the following news release on March 28, 2024: Small nonfarm businesses in 57 Missouri counties and neighboring counties in Illinois, Iowa and Kansas are now eligible to apply for low interest federal disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration, announced Francisco Sanchez Jr., associate administrator for the Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience at the Small Business Administration. These loans offs  more

U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa: Disturbance Call Results in Fort Dodge Man Pleading Guilty to Federal Firearm and Methamphetamine Charges
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, March 29 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa issued the following news release: Nicholas Janvrin, 32, from Fort Dodge, Iowa, was convicted of illegally possessing a firearm and conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Janvrin pled guilty March 27, 2024, in federal court in Sioux City. Janvrin was previously convicted of burglary, third degree, in the Iowa District Court for Hamilton County, in 2021. This type of conviction prohibits Janvrin  more

U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa: Dubuque Man Who Trafficked Hundreds of Pounds of Ice Methamphetamine Sentenced to Federal Prison
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, March 29 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa issued the following news release on March 28, 2024: A man who trafficked over 300 pounds of ice methamphetamine in the Dubuque, Iowa, area was sentenced today to more than 11 years in federal prison. Jason Laufenberg, age 39, from Dubuque, Iowa, received the prison term after an October 5, 2023 guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detect  more