Three days before Christmas, Tom Vilsack, President Joe Biden’s pick for U.S. agriculture secretary, convened a videoconference with nine prominent …
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By Laura Reiley, Washington Post Business News Feb. 5, 2021 6:30 am1678d ago
Three days before Christmas, Tom Vilsack, President Joe Biden’s pick for U.S. agriculture secretary, convened a videoconference with nine prominent …
John Steppe Business News Feb. 3, 2021 8:30 pm1680d ago
Iowa’s renewable fuels industry accounted for almost $4 billion or about 2 percent of Iowa’s gross domestic product in 2020, …
By Tom Barton, Quad-City Times Government & Politics Feb. 3, 2021 5:40 pm1680d ago
Iowa’s Republican U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley said he anticipates a smooth Senate confirmation of former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack as …
Erin Jordan Business News Feb. 3, 2021 12:11 pm1680d ago
Iowa had 34 farm bankruptcies in 2020 — a 26 percent increase from the previous year and the third-highest state …
By Ryan J. Foley, Associated Press News Jan. 29, 2021 6:38 pm1685d ago
IOWA CITY – Prosecutors have dropped trespassing charges against an activist who helped secretly record Iowa’s largest pork producer using …
Business News Jan. 22, 2021 12:45 pm1692d ago
Iowa’s ethanol producers saw a 12 percent drop in production in 2020, the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association said Thursday. It …
Business News Jan. 6, 2021 3:52 pm1708d ago
Specialty ingredients company Ingredion will cut 35 positions from its Cedar Rapids facility effective Feb. 4, according to a WARN …
Associated Press
Government & Politics Jan. 4, 2021 7:01 am1710d ago
Thanks to the government paying nearly 40 percent of their income, U.S. farmers on average were expected to close out …
Business News Jan. 4, 2021 6:30 am1710d ago
WYOMING, Iowa – For 25 years, Joel Kurtenbach managed a successful Jones County dairy farm and was featured in trade …
Associated Press
Business News Dec. 28, 2020 1:31 pm1717d ago
One of the Tyson Foods managers fired for betting on how many workers would contract COVID-19 at an Iowa pork …
News Dec. 21, 2020 7:00 am1724d ago
Mississippi River water quality has worsened in the last five years, spurred by agricultural runoff from Midwest states including Iowa, …
By Associated Press
Government & Politics Dec. 10, 2020 10:31 am1735d ago
WASHINGTON – President-elect Joe Biden is naming Susan Rice as director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, giving her …
Business News Dec. 10, 2020 6:45 am1735d ago
A Shell Rock ethanol plant is one of the first in Iowa to use a Cedar Rapids-developed technology to make …
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