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‘Setting the Table for All Iowans’ provides blueprints for more localized food system
Business Record 8-9-24
Cover Story: Meet four Iowans who are leading the charge to alleviate hunger
Focus: Iowa Stops Hunger
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Read MoreHealth Care Trends and Leaders 2024
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Read MoreRandy Edeker hands baton to next Hy-Vee leader
As a senior in high school, Randy Edeker had a decision to make: Attend a small Iowa college on a football scholarship or continue working at the Hy-Vee store in Chariton, with the goal of …
Read MoreBusiness Record 8-2-24
Cover Story: Randy Edeker hands baton to next Hy-Vee leader
Focus: Mergers and Acquisitions
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Read MoreThe Elbert Files: Okoboji’s 2024 flood
Even before railroads began promoting Iowa’s Great Lakes region as a tourist destination in 1882, people from Des Moines traveled 200 miles by horse and wagon to hunt, fish and relax on the sandy beaches …
Read MoreAgribusiness Association of Iowa announces new CEO
The Agribusiness Association of Iowa (AAI) announced Thursday that Julie Kenney has been hired as its new CEO.
Mark Reisinger has served as interim CEO of the organization since March. Kenney will start her new role on Sept. 1.…
Read MoreISU professor: Swine virus caused $1.2 billion annual loss in production
Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome, also known as PRRS, has cost the U.S. pork industry an estimated $1.2 billion per year in lost production from 2016 to 2020, according to a new analysis from Iowa …
Read MoreRandy Edeker retiring after 43 years at Hy-Vee
Randy Edeker, who began his 43-year career at Hy-Vee Inc. as a part-time employee in Chariton, steps down on July 31 as executive chairman of the board of the West Des Moines-based company.
Edeker led …
Read MoreLynch named Partnership’s regional community integration director following Woodard’s departure
Alex Lynch has been named the Greater Des Moines Partnership’s director of regional community integration after long-time staffer Andrea Woodard was recently appointed executive director of the Iowa State Association of Counties. Woodard recently announced her …
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