Couple builds Cedar River Garden Center from Horticulture Specialties inception
Diehm and Megan Diehm started in 1985 with Horticulture Specialties Inc now Cedar River Garden Center in Palo Cedar Rapids. The business grew from landscape construction to a full service garden center offering design and retail with soil rocks mulches and a wide variety of plants.
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Diehm
Kirkwood Community College
Cedar Rapids
Megan
Tama County
Horticulture Specialties Inc
Cedar River Garden Center
Palo
Cedar River Garden Center owner on seasonal rush and weather
Dan Diehm, owner of Cedar River Garden Center at 2889 Palo Marsh Rd starts spring business in March and closes at Thanksgiving. He says the six to eight week peak defines the season while winters are spent planning. Wet weather and a delayed June challenged the year. Megan rescues cats that roam the center.
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Dan Diehm
Cedar River Garden Center
Palo Marsh Rd
Palo
Cedarrivergardencenter.com
Megan
Diehm
Diehms
Facebook to track users across devices for ad effectiveness
Facebook will monitor cross device activity to show which device viewed an ad and which device led to a purchase. The California company says advertisers can count clicks and identify device types from login linked behavior across mobile, tablet, and desktop.
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Facebook
Altimeter Group
China halts U S pork imports over feed additive ban
China bars pork from six U S processing plants and six cold storage facilities to enforce a ban on ractopamine, a feed additive sold as Paylean. Key plants affected include Tyson Foods in Perry and Storm Lake Iowa and Logansport Indiana, plus Hormel in Nebraska Triumph Foods Missouri and Quality Pork Processors Minnesota.
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China
U.S
Department of Agriculture
Tyson Foods
Perry
Storm Lake
Iowa
Logansport
Ind
Hormel Foods Corp
Nebraska
Triumph Foods
Missouri
Quality Pork Processors Inc
Minnesota
U.S. Meat Export Federation
Joe Schuele
Russia
West
Ukraine
Smithfield Foods Inc
WH Group
Smithfield
Dan Vaught
St. Louis
Doane Advisory Services
Japan
South Korea
Canada
Mexico
Nonprofit Hospitals Face Mounting Strain As Tipping Point Looms
A Standard & Poor's report warns non profit and stand alone hospitals face deeper stress from weak margins and falling patient volume. Downgrades outpace upgrades since 2013, with stand alone providers hit by physician departures rising bad debt and higher benefit costs. Mergers with larger systems seen as a path to scale and efficiency.
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Standard & Poor
Martin Arrick
S&p
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