The USDA reported just 72 Black farmers in Iowa in 2017, the most recent Census of Agriculture. That’s 0.05 percent of the 143,500 producers the USDA counted in the state.
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The USDA reported just 72 Black farmers in Iowa in 2017, the most recent Census of Agriculture. That’s 0.05 percent of the 143,500 producers the USDA counted in the state.
Scribe Stationer, a stationery shop in an old Cedar Rapids firehouse in the New Bohemia neighborhood, promotes an “authentic way to communicate.”
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.
About 365 union employees of Eaton-Cobham Mission Systems in Davenport went on strike at 12:01 a.m. Friday after those workers voted not to ratify the company's contract offer.
Casey Peck Peck started out at Kalona Cooperative Technology as an accountant and worked her way into being controller. From there she moved on to being CFO and in 2013 stepped into her current role of both CFO and general manager.
There still are successful strategies that help alleviate the ups and downs of typical investor emotions during hyper-active markets.
State lawmakers should quadruple the money they might provide to upgrade outdated fueling stations as part of a proposed requirement to sell a gasoline blend that is 15 percent ethanol, according to convenience store owners.
“Quiet title” laws across the Midwest can disproportionately affect homeowners who don’t speak English.
Havenpark Communities, which owns several mobile home parks in Iowa, purchased two parks in Iowa City last month for a combined $33.5 million. Havenpark attracted attention in 2019 for hiking tenants’ rent anywhere from 24 percent to 69 percent.
Cedar Rapids-based broadband provider ImOn Communications announced it has signed definitive documentation to be acquired by the Infrastructure investing business within Goldman Sachs.
A new facility in northwest Iowa that was built to create environmentally friendly fuel from cow manure polluted a creek this past week when it leaked an estimated 376,000 gallons of manure water, according to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources.
Republicans who support a bill that seeks to limit public land buys say the Iowa Department of Natural Resources and county conservation boards shouldn’t be competing with farmers trying to buy timber for cattle grazing. Democrats say its more likely developers or other farmers snapping up land.
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