Iowa Business Report

Iowa Business Report Friday Edition Aug. 09, 2024      Greg Edwards of Catch Des Moines on the broad economic benefits of the Iowa State Fair.

Iowa Business Report Thursday Edition Aug. 08, 2024     Iowa Secretary of Agriculture and Land Stewardship Mike Naig on the purposes behind the annual Iowa State Fair, which opens today in Des Moines.

Iowa Business Report Wednesday Edition Aug. 07, 2024     USDA under secretary Jennifer Lester Moffitt on recognizing an important part of the food supply chain during National Farmers Market Week this week.

Iowa Business Report Tuesday Edition Aug. 06, 2024     U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley on his personal 50-year streak of attending the Iowa State Fair, which opens its 11-day run on Thursday.

Iowa Business Report Monday Edition Aug. 05, 2024     Financial journalist Jordan Goodman on the economic policy differences between candidates Harris and Trump.

Iowa Business Report Friday Edition Aug. 02, 2024     Jack Kilian of Poultry Patrol, which uses robots to improve the health of turkey flocks.

Iowa Business Report Thursday Edition Aug. 01, 2024        Rep. Zach Nunn (R-IA03) shares an example of D.C. dysfunction regarding lack of knowledge of how agriculture operates.

Iowa Business Report Wednesday Edition Jul. 31, 2024       Paul Teller of Advancing American Freedom on the prospect of tax increases next year unless Congress takes action.

Iowa Business Report Tuesday Edition Jul. 30, 2024       Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate on trafficking of humans and how businesses can alert authorities and stop the illegal activity.

Iowa Business Report Monday Edition Jul. 29, 2024        Financial journalist Jordan Goodman on the latest government economic data, which was received with mixed response.

Iowa Business Report Friday Edition Jul. 26, 2024       Tom Ruck of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Blue Campaign on the effects of trafficking in humans and the role business can play to stop it.

Iowa Business Report Thursday Edition Jul. 25, 2024       University of Illinois Computer Science Professor Sheldon Jacobson on the cause of the Crowdstrike computer glitch that led to a global outage last week.

Iowa Business Report Wednesday Edition Jul. 24, 2024      Robert Bork, Jr., of the Antitrust Education Project on the Department of Justice's plan to open an office in Chicago to investigate antitrust violations in agriculture.

Iowa Business Report Tuesday Edition Jul. 23, 2024       Gov. Kim Reynolds (R-IA) reacting to the Iowa Utilities Board ruling on carbon capture pipelines and eminent domain, affecting Iowa's biofuels industry.

Iowa Business Report Monday Edition Jul. 22, 2024       Financial journalist Jordan Goodman on IPOs (initial public offerings) and how average investors now have more access to them than in the past. 

On this edition of the Iowa Business Report:  Robert Bork, Jr., of the Antitrust Education Project discusses the federal government's action to investigation antitrust violations in the agriculture industry. Mike Ralston of the Iowa Association of Business and Industry shares information from the group's latest quarterly member survey.   And in this week's "Business Profile&quo...

Iowa Business Report Friday Edition Jul. 19, 2024       Chelsea Lerud of Iowa Travel Industry Partners about enhancing travel and tourism across the state. 

Iowa Business Report Thursday Edition Jul. 18, 2024      New president and CEO of the Iowa Taxpayers Association Nate Ristow identifies key goals of the group.

Iowa Business Report Wednesday Edition Jul. 17, 2024      U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley on the role of manufacturing in Iowa.

Iowa Business Report Tuesday Edition Jul. 16, 2024      Financial journalist Jordan Goodman assesses a middle-range economy at the middle point of the year.

Iowa Business Report Monday Edition Jul. 15, 2024      J.D. Davis of the Iowa Association of Business and Industry on the role of trade groups in assisting public policy discussions.

On this edition of the Iowa Business Report:  Ben Murrey of the Common Sense Institute Iowa explains how Iowa's income tax cuts are sustainable despite a broad economic downturn. When you visit the butter cow at the Iowa State Fair this year...she'll have company.   And in this week's "Business Profile", we'll revisit a conversation with Emily Kress of Dupaco Credit U...

Iowa Business Report Friday Edition Jul. 12, 2024     Ben Murrey of the Common Sense Institute Iowa on the sustainability of the current package of state income tax cuts with respect to Iowa's overall budget.