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Bruere receives national recognition for auction sales

Peoples Co. President Steve Bruere has been named an APEX 2018 National Broker of the Year by the Realtors Land Institute, a division of the National Association of Realtors. Bruere’s award was for auction land …

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D.M. farmers market wins ag award

The winners of this year’s Agriculture Leader Awards included the Des Moines Downtown Farmers’ Market, which started in a small parking lot in 1976 and now draws 25,000 people and 300 vendors. The market won a community …

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Food purchases by U.S. offer little relief

Successful Farming: The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting has found that six months after the U.S. Department of Agriculture promised to buy $1.2 billion worth of food from American pork, beef, and produce farmers, many …

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Quinn to be honored with ‘Champion of Humanity’ award by Parliament


The president of the World Food Prize, Kenneth Quinn, will be honored in Britain’s House of Lords on March 5 for his humanitarian contributions while serving as U.S. ambassador to Cambodia. Quinn will become only the second …

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Applications open for Hunger Summit breakout sessions


Due to anticipated high demand, the World Food Prize has opened applications for breakout sessions for the annual Iowa Hunger Summit earlier this year. This year’s summit, scheduled Oct. 14 in Des Moines, will host …

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Boot camp to jump-start land acquisition process for beginning farmers

A new boot camp presented in Newton is ready to serve beginning farmers who struggle to acquire their own land. The Farmland Access Bootcamp on Feb. 9, a partnership between Renewing the Countryside and Practical …

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Land Investment Expo features hemp, Ernst, Martha Stewart

A little more than three weeks to go before the 12th edition of Peoples Co.’s Land Investment Expo, and the agenda is growing. With hemp resurrected as a legal crop, thanks to the farm bill …

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Newsmaker Q&A: Sarah Lohmeier

Sarah Lohmeier’s path to serving as president of the board of the nonprofit Iowa Environmental Council passed through a childhood in Ames and a nursing major at the University of Iowa. 

Lohmeier is quite fond …

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NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: ‘Dead skunk’ stench from marijuana farms outrages Californians

In Iowa, neighbors to hog confinements, rendering plants or other ag-related operations at times sue over strong smells. In fact, there was just a recent Des Moines Register headline about noxious news in the north. In California,…
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Ag Startup Engine companies surpass $10 million in investments

The Ag Startup Engine’s seven initial agricultural startup companies have collectively raised more than $10 million in follow-on investments, the organization announced today. The seven portfolio companies within ASE at Iowa State University Research Park have also …