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Iowa: Moving To The Top Of The Class

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billion in public and private sector investment is happening right now in the Quad Cities, a six-county region straddling the southeastern Iowa and northwestern Illinois state lines and connected by the two banks of the Mississippi River. Louis, Kansas City, Des Moines, Indianapolis and Omaha.

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Industry Focus: Food Processing – The Process Of Consistency

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There also is Arkansas’s state-of-the-art railroad infrastructure comprising three Class I systems: Union Pacific, BNSF Railway and Kansas City Southern Railway. And while a food hub isn’t a new concept, the ideas around how to implement the food hub are drawing attention. Wages are approximately 80 percent to 85 percent of U.S.