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The U.S. solar energy industry added jobs at about 5.74 times the rate of the rest of the economy in the 12 months ended in September, according to a report from the Solar Foundation, Bloomberg …
You might describe Joshua Mandelbaum as a big issues kind of guy. He spent nearly four years as a senior policy advisor in the administration of Gov. Tom Vilsack and Lt. Gov. Sally Pederson, where …
The issue: Ag land values
The majority of Iowa farmland is owned by people who could retire today, and retire very wealthy thanks to the escalation in land and crop prices in recent years. But …
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) rural development programs invested $534 million in loans and grants in Iowa that helped create or retain more than 1,600 jobs in fiscal year 2012, the USDA said yesterday.
Funds …
Jan Glendening of Pleasant Hill has been appointed Iowa state director of The Nature Conservancy, succeeding Sean McMahon, who has been named director of North America agriculture for the organization. Glendening has been with the …
Farmland auctions in Iowa now resemble a dressed-down spectator sport with Sotheby’s prices, a reflection of the yawning divide that has opened in some of the most bountiful stretches of rural America, Bloomberg reports.
Farm …
Ames-based Harrisvaccines has received a $1.1 million contract from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to develop a vaccine to prevent foot-and-mouth disease.
The disease is caused by a highly infectious virus, which was believed …
International investor and hedge fund manager Jim Rogers will be the keynote speaker at Peoples Co.’s annual Land Investment Expo, scheduled for Jan. 18 in West Des Moines.
Rogers and George Soros managed to achieve …
The following is a schedule of events open free to the public during the annual World Food Prize week.
Throughout this week, past World Food Prize laureates will speak at locales and university campusesand other locales across Iowa …
Tallgrass Grocery Cooperative filed for protection from its creditors under federal bankruptcy law Friday, claiming $51,598 in debts, including $351 due to the Iowa Department of Revenue, and $4,673 in assets. The West Des Moines organization …
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