Iowa joins competition to land USDA agencies with combined budget of $1.6 billion
BPC Staff Sep 13, 2018 | 8:18 pm
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63 wordsAll Latest News, Economic Development, Energy, Government Policy and Law, Statewide NewsDes Moines Register: Iowa has joined a throng of states that want to land two USDA agency headquarters that Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue wants to move away from Washington, D.C. The Iowa Economic Development Authority said this week that the state “makes perfect sense as the future home” for the USDA’s Economic Research Service and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture headquarters.