Approximately 55,000 state and local agencies can eliminate the RFP process with the best overall government price on Grasshopper mowers.

Claims abound that we have permanently bent the health-spending curve. The growth of health spending has indeed declined to historically low rates, driven largely by the Great Recession and the subsequent slow recovery. But slower spending growth does not guarantee an increase in value sometimes less is less.

Alamo's North American Agricultural Division net sales were $57.3 million in the second quarter of 2013, vs. $53.1 million in the comparable period of 2012, an increase of 8%.

The federal government announced Monday it has taken a step toward wide distribution of gasoline mixed with 15 percent ethanol by allowing manufacturers to register as suppliers.