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Faaborg family in Radcliffe transitions pig operation to mushroom business at 1100 Farm

After becoming one of the early adopters of a farming practice that would forever change animal agriculture, the Faaborg family in Radcliffe is swapping its concentrated animal feeding operation for mushrooms.Today, their property is known as the 1100 Farm, a nod to how Tanner Faaborg’s stroke of reimagination is helping preserve his family’s farm.“The buildings…
By Kyle Heim | Jul 26, 2024
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Genesis Youth Foundation, Iowa Workforce Development to host job fair

Genesis Youth Foundation, a nonprofit serving immigrant youths and families, announced it will host a job fair on July 31 in partnership with Iowa Workforce Development. The event aims to assist the immigrant and refugee communities with finding new employment opportunities following the Tyson and Smithfield plant closures. The job fair will be held from…
By Business Record Staff | Jul 26, 2024
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Iowa communities invited to apply to Creative Places Accelerator

The Iowa Arts Council has announced that applications are open for the new Creative Places Accelerator, which will run from Oct. 1, 2024, to June 30, 2026. The Creative Places Accelerator is a program where cross-sector community teams from small to midsize Iowa communities develop arts-based projects. Projects developed through this accelerator program will be…
By Business Record Staff | Jul 26, 2024
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Randy Edeker retiring after 43 years at Hy-Vee

Randy Edeker, who began his 43-year career at Hy-Vee Inc. as a part-time employee in Chariton, steps down on July 31 as executive chairman of the board of the West Des Moines-based company. Edeker led his last board of directors meeting on July 18. The 61-year-old has been preparing for his retirement from Hy-Vee since…
By Kathy A. Bolten | Jul 26, 2024
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Lynch named Partnership’s regional community integration director following Woodard’s departure

Alex Lynch has been named the Greater Des Moines Partnership’s director of regional community integration after long-time staffer Andrea Woodard was recently appointed executive director of the Iowa State Association of Counties. Woodard recently announced her departure from the Partnership after more than nine years with the Central Iowa economic development organization. She served as the…
By Mike Mendenhall | Jul 26, 2024
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Commentary: How open-minded leadership advances women in the workplace

By Business Record Staff | Jul 26, 2024
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What’s new in leadership development? Two Forty Under 40 honorees tell us

Since starting with the Business Record in 2019, I’ve had the pleasure of editing our features on each of our Forty Under 40 honorees. It’s always fascinating to see the similar and unique qualities of each of the leaders.  While they all have been successful professionally and in the community, their paths have looked different….
By Emily Barske Wood | Jul 26, 2024
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Fulfilled by the future

Ten years after co-founding Bâton Global with Jeffrey Kappen, Matthew Mitchell has moved into the CEO role as the international strategy consulting firm looks toward its next phase of growth. A fascination with the future led him to study physics because it explored the concept in the “most macro sense.” But he swiftly learned that…
By Sarah Diehn | Jul 26, 2024