This year’s corn and soybean harvests are virtually complete in nearly every area of the state, with one exception: south-central Iowa, where they still have more than 10 percent of their crop remaining to be harvested.
The City of Cedar Rapids is teaming up with Iowa State University researchers to study how “forever chemicals” hold up during wastewater treatment at the Cedar Rapids Water Pollution Control Facility.
A monthslong wait for a permit to install underground wells for a geothermal heat system at the Eastern Iowa Airport may delay construction of the final phase of a 10-year, $120 million renovation.
Foreign investment in Iowa farmland more than doubled in the last 10 years, but Iowa still ranks in the bottom half of states for acres with foreign investment. Iowa’s foreign acres are less than 2 percent of privately-owned agricultural land.