Grain elevator death prompts penalties on Stickle Enterprises
OSHA proposes 245000 in penalties to Stickle Enterprises for grain bin incident linked to a January death during salvage by Fasco Mills of Seward Illinois. Fasco cited for violations and 213500 penalty. Fire chief of Seward Fire Department died rescuing a worker.
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Rain and warmth boost Iowa corn and soybeans in past week
Eastern Iowa received rainfall Friday while most of the state stayed dry, aiding topsoil moisture at 51 percent adequate. Corn tasseling reached 2 percent versus 25 percent usual, with Cedar County noting 2.46 inches of rain in Stanwood Friday and farmers eyeing a spray window for the second generation of European corn borer.
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Dow Drops 161 Points Amid Stock Market Selloff
New York investors pulled the Dow Jones industrial average down 161.05 points to 5349.51, its fourth worst point loss, as a steepening correction eroded this year’s gains. Declines outpaced advances 5 to 1 on the NYSE with heavy volume, while Eastern Iowa stocks showed mixed results. United Technologies and Eastman Kodak fell, United Fire & Casualty rose, and market strategists warned of a corrective phase after a lengthy rally.
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Iowa
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Deere & Co
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McLeod and Ruffalo Cody Merge Executive Ties Return
McLeod Inc announces acquisition of Ruffalo Cody & Associates reuniting multiple former Teleconnect executives including Clark McLeod and Steve Gray. The deal follows McLeod’s 1990 Teleconnect sale to MCI for 1.25 billion and comes amid a summer of McLeod activity in Cedar Rapids with PrimeLine and a planned technology park.
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Lynn Feuerbach
Gazete
McLeod Inc
Ruffalo, Cody & Associates
Clark McLeod
McLeod
Teleconnect Co
Steve Gray
Buffalo
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Teleconnect
Telecom* USA
Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Ryan Construction
Ryan
Jeff Smith
Justin Saylor
Buffalo Cody
EPC backs away from new hog farm rule
Iowa Environmental Protection Commission dropped a proposal to broaden manure management plan rules to smaller hog farms after complaints it would place an undue burden on family farmers. Critics said consultants would be needed and the 1995 law would be stretched to forces more farms to comply. Brent Halling, Perry farmer, urged the panel to abandon the draft rule before its unanimous vote to kill the measure.
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Environmental Protection Commission
EPC
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Perry
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Regulators split on pursuing DeCoster hog farm case
Iowa regulators deadlocked on whether to seek prosecution of DeCoster Farms of Iowa for an May manure leak at a hog facility near Galt. The EPC split 4-4 with the attorney general may pursue. DeCoster faces prior orders and a pending pollution case as details emerge.
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Environmental Protection Commission
DeCoster Farms
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Jack” DeCoster
Galt
EPC
DeCoster
Bill Smith
Mike Murphy
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