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Growing cannabis under the free rays of the sun costs a fraction of indoor or greenhouse cultivation. But outdoor producers have yet to sell millions worth of last year’s harvest, and at least one has slashed its expected selling price amid an oversupplied market. Indoor and greenhouse-grown pot make up the vast majority of legal cannabis in Canada, since it can be grown year round under far more controlled conditions. But more producers are turning to the great outdoors to push cultivation… Source link

As college football programs attempt to navigate their way to the start of the football season, the NCAA issued a “blanket waiver” on Monday evening that may help them get there quicker. The NCAA e-mailed conference football officials to inform them that the season can begin on Aug. 29 for all FBS programs, according to an e-mail viewed by Yahoo Sports. Normally, the week that’s become known Week 0 is limited and protected. NCAA director of championships Ty Halpin explained in the e-mail… Source link

3M Chairman and CEO Mike Roman is starting to see some light at the end of the long tunnel that has been the damaging COVID-19 pandemic. “We did build off a strong performance, another strong performance in the second quarter with an improving sales performance in July. It’s early days. I would say we are seeing it broad-based across businesses and geographies. It’s something, we are seeing improvement in economies starting to come through in our end market,” Roman told Yahoo… Source link

The Patriots lost Tom Brady in March. They’re systematically losing plenty of other players in late July. Mike Reiss of ESPN.com reports that safety Patrick Chung has opted out of the 2020 season. Chung, who was due to make a base salary of $1.1 million this year, becomes the sixth Patriots player to opt out of the 2020 season, joining linebacker Dont’a Hightower, offensive lineman Marcus Cannon, fullback Danny Vitale, guard Najee Toran, and running back Brandon Bolden. With each Patriots… Source link

Americans who got a first stimulus check would likely get a second one under the GOP’s new proposal. In several instances, some individuals would get more money. The Republican plan unveiled on Monday proposes sending a second wave of stimulus checks of up to $1,200 to Americans, plus an additional $500 for any dependent — a key departure from the first round.  That means parents of older high schoolers and college students claimed as dependents would get the bonus, as well as those… Source link

If the GOP’s plan to reduce extra coronavirus unemployment benefits gets passed, lower-income American families will get hurt the most. The Republican proposal released Monday suggests cutting the extra unemployment benefits to $200 a week through September and then ultimately transitioning to unemployment benefits that replace only 70% of wages. That would replace the extra $600 in weekly benefits that expire on July 31. “The $600 a week disproportionately benefits poor people and that is… Source link

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Despite COVID-19 concerns, the MLB season continues to press on. There are 15 games on the schedule Tuesday, nine of which will make up the main evening slate on Yahoo. Let’s dive right in and discuss some players to target for your lineup. Pitchers We are once again looking at an ugly group of starting pitchers to choose from. The one big name on the list is Walker Buehler ($50), but he’s facing the Astros and will likely be on a pitch count, making it hard to have any confidence in deploying… Source link

Intel Corp. (INTC) is ordering its 6-nanometer (nm) chips to be manufactured by TSMC (TSM) for next year, according to a report from the Taiwan-based newspaper Commercial Times. The news is considered unprecedented for Intel, a prominent chip manufacturer, now using a third-party manufacturer to create its own product. On July 23, Intel announced that it would see significant delays until 2022 for its latest cutting-edge 7-nm chip. Intel CEO Bob Swan said on a Q2 earnings call that the… Source link

Major League Baseball was the canary in the coal mine. If something was capable of going sideways for a league operating without a bubble during the COVID-19 pandemic, baseball would send a warning to the NFL. Football executives didn’t expect it to come so soon in the season — after a single weekend baseball series — nor did they anticipate the warning to be a full-blown air raid siren. But here we are, with the Miami Marlins already teetering on the brink with 15 players and two… Source link