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Owning nearly 15,000 acres of land in Iowa through his private ownership of Stine Seed, [12] In 2018, he was listed as the wealthiest in Iowa with a net worth of $3.2 billion by Forbes . [ 13 ] In 2019, he increased his fortune by $1.8 billion to $5 billion ranking him the richest Iowan and #131 richest in the United States by Forbes.
This is the 1844 plat for Fort Des Moines, which is two years before Iowa becomes a state (1846), five years before the first edition of the Des Moines Register's predecessor, the Iowa Star, is ...
Iowa farm sales were second only to California's at $59 billion, the data show. Natasha Wilson checks the pigs on her family farm while doing chores Monday, Feb. 12, 2024 near West Chester, Iowa.
It was founded in 1857 in Iowa City, where it was first affiliated with the University of Iowa. As the organization grew in size and collections, it became a separate state agency headquartered near the Iowa Capitol in Des Moines. [2] [3] Since March of 2024, the Administrator of the State Historical Society of Iowa has been Valerie Van Kooten. [4]
Shake-Out: Iowa Farm Families in the 1980s (1989); Friedricks, William B. Covering Iowa: The History of the Des Moines Register and Tribune Company, 1849-1985 (Iowa State Press, 2000). Grant, H. Roger. "Railroaders and Reformers: The Chicago & North Western Encounters Grangers and Progressives." Annals of Iowa 50.7 (1991) pp 772–786 online.
Where foreign land ownership factors most in Iowa is in wind and solar energy production, rather than crop and livestock production. In 2021, renewable energy companies held about 90% of the state ...
The Garst farm, with its use of hybrid corn and other agricultural innovations, was the only large size farm at all comparable to the scale of Soviet collective farms that the official was able to visit, and that was only by getting away from the official tour. Subsequently, Garst visited the Soviet Union to sell hybrid corn there and spread ...
In a state where corn and soybeans dominate today, in the early 1900s sugar beets became an important farm product in north-central Iowa. In 1910, it was reported Cerro Gordo County alone produced ...