DES MOINES — What separates professionally-managed farms from farms that struggle or fail? The successful farms begin with the end in mind and have a strategy for success. “How many times do you get to practice farm succession? Once,” said Dick Wittman, an Idaho rancher and farm ...

GOWRIE — Abbie Burger has always loved coffee, boutiques, and small businesses, so when a building on Market Street in Gowrie opened up, Burger thought “why not?” A life-long Gowrie resident, she opened 1108 Coffee and Boutique, 1108 Market St., on Monday to a packed store of ...

Fixed base operators — FBOs — staff and operate America’s general aviation airports. They’re contracted to provide services critical to safe operation of small aircraft, both propeller and jet. Sale of aviation fuels is the prime source of cash flow and profit for FBOs. Rental of ...

Absence certainly made the heart grow fonder during a recent renovation project that left Taco Tico fans without their fix. For six weeks, patrons of the well-known Fort Dodge restaurant had to wait patiently as an expansion of the kitchen area took place without doors opening to the ...

Thirty-five years ago, Sheila Border purchased the home at 1530 Second Ave. N. in Fort Dodge and opened her very own salon — Salon & Company. There, Border watched a beautiful magnolia tree bloom every spring, gave her daughters and granddaughters their first haircuts, manicures, ...

A Fort Dodge Realtor has been named the top Coldwell Banker agent in Iowa in units sold in 2024. Keenan Schuur, who has been with Coldwell Banker since May 2015, received the honor having sold $10.9 million in sales last year. Schuur received his brokers license in 2017 and became ...