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The Quaker Oats Plant is the largest cereal mill in the world, located in downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States, alongside the Cedar River, originally founded in 1873, rebuilt after a fire in 1905.
The US is the world's largest producer of corn. [8] According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the average U.S. yield for corn was 177 bushels per acre, up 3.3 percent over 2020 and a record high, with 16 states posting state records in output, and Iowa reporting a record of 205 bushels of corn per acre.
The Sioux City Grain Exchange (SCGX) was a cash commodity market in Sioux City, Iowa that primarily traded corn, wheat, oat, and soybean. It was established in 1907 as the Sioux City Board of Trade, named the "fastest growing grain market in the world" in 1929, [1] and among the largest exchanges in the world by the 1970s; transacting over 100 million bushels annually (valued at $1 billion as ...
In 1947, the exchange was renamed the Minneapolis Grain Exchange. Today the exchange is most recognized by its logo and uses MGEX as first reference. On December 19, 2008, the Minneapolis Grain Exchange ceased operations of the open outcry trading floor, but continues daily operations for the electronic processing of financial transactions ...
Get the Cedar Rapids, IA local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days. ... Daily Weather Update from FOX Weather: Back-to-back storms target East ahead of polar vortex-fueled arctic air.
The company's primary media is the newspaper, The Daily Herald, which is published Tuesday through Friday afternoons and Sunday mornings. [1] The weekly Roanoke Rapids Herald was founded in 1914 by editor and publisher J.T. Stainback. From 1929 to 1947 the newspaper was owned and edited by Carroll Wilson.
There, both Iowa 22 and Iowa 92 follow Iowa 38 toward the city's riverfront. [2] [3] US 61 and Iowa 92 south of Muscatine. US 61 continues to the northeast along a four-lane expressway; two exits provide access to Blue Grass. A few miles east of Blue Grass, the highway meets and turns north onto Interstate 280 (I-280).
St. Louis Globe-Democrat, a major competing St. Louis daily newspaper, located one block away on the same street, closed in 1986; St. Louis Sun, a short-lived competing daily newspaper started in 1989; 100 Neediest Cases, an annual charitable giving campaign sponsored in part by the Post-Dispatch; Riverfront Times, the St. Louis weekly newspaper