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Iowa Agriculture Secretary Mike Naig said he expects 2021 to be “another year where you’re going to have a lot of variability, but I think generally we can say things look better than we might have expected.”

Confidence in the economy among business leaders in nine Midwest and Plains states has plummeted in recent weeks, according to a monthly survey released Friday that reflected leaders' lowest rate of confidence since the COVID-19 pandemic began last year.

United Auto Workers Union 281 said Friday that workers have reached a tentative contract agreement with Deere and Co.

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose for the third straight week, a sign that the highly contagious delta variant may be slowing a recovery in the job market.

The company said Thursday that This is Heaven LLC, a company of the 53-year-old Thomas and Chicago real estate developer Rick Heidner, bought the interests in Go the Distance Baseball owned by the Denise M. Stillman Trust.

The University of Iowa College of Public Health’s new FarmSafe podcast combines near-miss stories from farmers, agricultural workers and emergency responders with tips for better health and safety on the farm.

Activity at the city-owned airport slowed down at the start of 2020 but has since rebounded. A record was set for fuel sales during fiscal year 2021, which ended in June.