In a conversation with Investigate Midwest, more than a dozen vendors at the Des Moines Downtown Farmers Market describe how inflation, falling crop prices and tariffs are reshaping their livelihoods.
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In a conversation with Investigate Midwest, more than a dozen vendors at the Des Moines Downtown Farmers Market describe how inflation, falling crop prices and tariffs are reshaping their livelihoods.
Scammers now ask their victims to pay them with gift cards because they’re a convenient way to steal money and they’re difficult to trace or recover.
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.
A case of highly pathogenic avian influenza was detected in a commercial turkey flock in Calhoun County. It is the first detection of the H5N1 bird flu in Iowa since April, but the eighth detection in Iowa flocks in 2025.
Panelists at The Gazette’s annual Iowa Ideas conference see artificial intelligence as means of providing ‘actionable insight’ to farmers.
Iowa farm leaders and Republican U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley are pressing President Donald Trump’s administration to take urgent action after China cut off purchases of American soybeans, threatening one of the state’s most important export markets.
Alliant Energy, which has been exploring building a new power plant in Fairfax — a proposal that was met with resistance from some residents and officials at The Eastern Iowa Airport — said in a statement to the city that it is “deprioritizing” the Fairfax location.
A new restaurant has closed only about a year after it opened.
Retailer’s private-label Great Value brand will be most heavily affected by the changes.
Neighbors complain of ‘significant’ increase in odors coming from corn processor Roquette America
Former Cedar Rapids Kernels general manager Scott Wilson will be the next leader of NewBo City Market.
Expert says waste from a restarted Duane Arnold Energy Center could introduce hundreds of new chemicals into the environment, impacting human health.
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