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Biobased Economy Continues to Grow: USDA Secretary Announces NC State-Duke Study Results on Monday

NC State SCRC

Vilsack, a former governor of Iowa, briefly ran in the 2008 presidential race and was considered by Hillary Clinton as a potential running mate in 2016. In 2014, America’s biobased industry contributed a total of 4.22 million jobs in 2014, with each job in the industry responsible for generating 1.76 jobs in other sectors.

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Jaro Caban: “Establishing S&OP is a challenging journey”

Supply Chain Movement

It’s hard to imagine that Cargill began as a grain storage warehouse in Iowa, USA, in 1865. Nevertheless, we started our journey in 2012 and, due to many new internal procedures that we already have in place, we are on target for 2014. Getting funding and commitment is difficult and requires multiple business discussions.

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Columbus Day 2020: A Holiday in Search of a Name

Enterra Insights

Some states like Oregon, Iowa, and Nebraska have never observed it. The movement lost steam again until 2014, when Minneapolis, MN, Grand Rapids, MN, and Seattle, WA, decided to adopt the change. It has also been argued that America had already been ‘discovered’ by the indigenous people when Columbus arrived.

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[INFOGRAPHIC, REPORT, & INTERACTIVE MAP] The US Manufacturing Workforce & Making it In America

GlobalTranz

percent, 458,400 jobs), Iowa (14.0 million manufacturing jobs would have been created through the third quarter of 2014. US Manufacturing plays a particularly important role in supporting jobs in a core group of states in the upper Midwest (East North Central and selected West North Central) and South (East South Central) states.

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Which States are Making the Grade in Logistics?

Material Handling & Logistics

Content Summary: Iowa has 4,389 miles of railway lines, with 2,431 miles of railway tracks classified as Class 1. Content Summary: From 2010-2014, the state and its local counterparts invested more than $132 million in the state's railroad infrastructure. The state received a B. Printer-friendly version. Media Type. Privacy Settings.

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Driver Shortage in Trucking: Time for Plan B

Talking Logistics

As reported in the New York Times : Factoring in June’s increase and upward revisions for estimated hiring in April and May, employers added an average of 231,000 workers a month in the first half of 2014, the best six-month run since the spring of 2006.

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Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2019

Enterra Insights

Some states like Oregon, Iowa, and Nebraska have never observed it. The movement lost steam again until 2014, when Minneapolis, MN, Grand Rapids, MN, and Seattle, WA, decided to adopt the change. It has also been argued that America had already been ‘discovered’ by the indigenous people when Columbus arrived.