Eight of Valero’s facilities, including plants in Charles City, Lakota, Fort Dodge, Albert City and Hartley as well as one plant each in Nebraska, Minnesota and South Dakota, are expected to join Summit’s proposed pipeline, already about 2,200 miles long.
Nitrogen-impaired drinking water in Minnesota’s farm country has been a gnarled reality for rural landowners with private wells for decades, particularly in the southeastern portion of the state with porous geography. One Minnesota lawmaker said the time for encouragement through incentives for corn farmers to stop using fertilizer has passed.
The Gazette’s Business Notes is a compendium of the week’s promotions, new hires, certifications, added business lines and business events, among other items, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and the rest of the Corridor.
It has tracks and is the biggest, most powerful ever made
Kiva campaign for Don Gomez restaurant in Cedar Falls wraps up in record time
Do your homework, take precautions
Co-founders launch company after meeting — and winning — at startup weekend in Iowa City
Tribute Kicks find spot to ‘give back’ in Coral Ridge Mall
The ISU Electric Power Research Center won a $9.5 million federal grant for the project.
The bill would require the Iowa Transportation Commission to include in its long-range planning plans to make the entire length of Highway 30 four lanes — including a 40-mile stretch between DeWitt and Lisbon, just east of Cedar Rapids, and between Carroll and Ogden in western Iowa.
New U.S. Department of Agriculture data reveals that some counties, especially in Northeast and East-Central Iowa, produced millions less bushels last year.
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