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The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City reports that farm loan delinquencies were up in the fourth quarter of 2017 from the year-earlier period. The stats are only slightly troubling, reports Successful Farming, given that delinquencies …
The unemployment rate gets a lot of attention each week in business reports. After the high unemployment numbers of 10 years ago during the Great Recession, it feels good to see a low number. But …
The city of Des Moines has wrestled with the Dico superfund site along the Raccoon River near Fleur Drive and Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway for better than two decades. So what happens when you …
The U.S. Small Business Administration will back $2.3 million in loans to businesses in Boone, Polk and Warren counties, according to a release from the SBA. The businesses include restaurants, freight companies, an automobile repair …
Ninety percent of Iowa Business Council members anticipate higher sales in the next six months, as Iowa’s largest employers express continued optimism for the economy. According to the IBC’s second-quarter economic survey released today, two-thirds of the …
Chinese companies are expected to cancel most of the remaining soybeans that importers had committed to buy at the end of this summer, Bloomberg reports. China has not taken delivery of about 1.14 million metric tons …
The Iowa economy showed modest improvement in June, according to a report today from Creighton University. The Mid-America Business Conditions Index, which evaluates economic conditions in a nine-state region, scored Iowa at a “very healthy” 62.6, …
For more than three decades, Des Moines has been the can-do city, reshaping and rebuilding its downtown and grabbing national attention for its efforts. In many of its neighborhoods, however, the city didn’t. As if …
A measure of the Iowa economy was unchanged in May from April, marking the second month in a row that the index has held steady, the Iowa Department of Revenue said. Four of the eight …
Despite trade disputes with China, Canada, Mexico and the European Union, the four largest customers for U.S. farm exports, 2018 will be a banner year for overseas sales, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture …
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