Posts With Keyword ‘Cargill’

Pella Corporation Hosts Middle School Students for Engineering Event

Posted: Wednesday, March 21st, 2012 at 6:27 am

Pella Corporation hosted 120 5th-8th graders as part of the annual free PEERS Explore Engineering Event yesterday.

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IN DEPTH: Rain, Corn Projections, and the National Debt

Posted: Wednesday, April 20th, 2011 at 2:00 pm

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Dr. Bob Leonard and Ray Jenkins with Cargill, Eddyville have a wide ranging discussion of the weather, crop production estimates, and the effects of the growing national debt on the local farming community and economy.

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How Current Events and World Markets Impact the Marion County Farmer

Posted: Monday, March 21st, 2011 at 10:24 am

This is the first in a ten part series of In Depth Special Edition Newsmagazines on agriculture in Marion County. In it, Ray Jenkins with Cargill, Eddyville sits down with Dr. Bob Leonard to discuss the potential impacts of current events, including the earthquake and tsunami in Japan on the prices Marion County farmers will likely get on their crops this fall. He also discusses how much corn comes into the Eddyville facility from Marion County, and what it is used for, among other issues related to the farm economy.

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