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Event Feb. 8 : ISU holds seminars for women

Iowa State University will hold a series of seminars for women interested in marketing grain. The sessions will be Feb. 8, 15, 22, and 29 at Marshalltown Community College. Each session runs 6 to 9:30 …

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Newsmaker Q&A

Let’s just say Mary Skopec is used to paddling upstream, at least on the job. She is one of those public servants who are doing crucial work on an important and controversial topic — in …

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Pork producers name Wulfekuhle new president

Hog producer Al Wulfekuhle of Quasqueton has begun his one-year term as president of the Iowa Pork Producers Association. He has been member of the IPPA board since 2012 and has raised pigs for more …

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U-C study: Most areas could feed themselves with food from a 50-mile radius

A University of California, Merced environmental engineering professor recently published a study that found that most of the country could grow enough food within 50 miles to feed nearly all of the local population.


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PR: GOP lawmakers want sales tax to pay for schools, not water quality

Statehouse Republicans are attempting to short-circuit a proposal by GOP colleague Gov. Terry Branstad to extend a sales tax intended for education so part of the money could be used to clean up Iowa’s waterways, Iowa …

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MidAmerican Energy completes two major wind projects

MidAmerican Energy Co. announced today it has completed work on two major wind farm projects that add more than 1,200 megawatts of wind generation capacity. The company said it has completed the Highland wind farm …

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How will Iowa be affected by market turmoil in China?

To shake things up this year, our newsroom brainstormed a list of key questions that we thought business people should know the answers to in order to do business better in 2016. Then we went…
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REG buys Sanimax biodiesel plant

Ames-based Renewable Energy Group Inc. is buying Wisconsin biorefinery Sanimax for $11 million and 500,000 shares of REG stock. REG also will pay $5 million over seven years based on the volume of biodiesel produced …

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How to find road conditions, power info

Those of you who braved the roads to drive downtown today may wonder what you’ll face getting home. The Iowa Department of Transportation offers detailed road condition information, crash reports and other information at the 511 …

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ChemChina nearing deal to buy Syngenta for $43B

China National Chemical Corp. is nearing an agreement to buy Swiss pesticide- and seeds-maker Syngenta AG for about 43.7 billion francs ($42.8 billion) as the state-backed company extends its buying spree, Bloomberg reported. The deal would be…