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Progress Agriculture

A brighter 2021

SPENCER — Jeremy Parsons stood before the media last July to make an announcement he never expected to have to make in all of his years in the fair industry. There would be no Clay County Fair in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Clay County Fair has been in existence since 1917 ...

Seaboard Triumph Foods: Nearing completion

SIOUX CITY — The Siouxland area’s new state-of-the-art Seaboard Triumph Foods pork plant in the Bridgeport West Industrial Park south of Sioux City will be the largest employer in Sioux City proper. This is according to Irving Jensen, Seaboard Triumph Foods spokesperson, concerning the ...

LANDUS: A merger of equals

AMES — Two well-known cooperatives officially became one on April 1, 2016. West Central Cooperative and Farmers Cooperative Company merged last spring after a majority vote was met by both cooperatives’ memberships to form LANDUS Cooperative, making it the seventh-largest grain company ...

CF Industries switches on new plant

SIOUX CITY — A towering column of steam fanned by cold February temperatures punctuates CF Industries’ complex west of Interstate 29 and a few miles south of Sergeant Bluff. The sight speaks to the operation of CF Industries’ new approximately $2 billion expansion, a project heralded ...

Longnecker Fertilizers: On their own, growing

DES MOINES — On Feb. 1, visitors at the Longnecker Fertilizers booth at the Iowa Power Farming Show were virtually non-stop through the morning and early afternoon. “We sell a high-orthophosphate starter,” Twila Longnecker said, and people are starting to look at their ...

Mainero: Harvest any field?

DES MOINES — The design is simple. It makes one wonder why it wasn’t thought of before — to harvest any corn field, any row width, in any direction, with the same corn head. GBC Distributing, based in Canada, introduced the corn head at the Iowa Power Farming Show in Des ...