Thompson, IA

The Field of Dreams Movie Site is hosting its second music festival after a successful inaugural year last year. The Velocity Festival featured Tim McGraw and Nickelback last year and country superstar Carrie Underwood headlines this year’s event on Saturday night. Dyersville Chamber Director Karla Thompson says they’ve expanded to [...]

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The Iowa Newspaper Foundation has joined the Mississippi Press Foundation and Arkansas Newspaper Foundation to form the Great River Local News Coalition, a new partnership to identify funding opportunities and develop initiatives that expand resources and strengthen local news across all three states. For Iowa, the coalition arrives at a critical moment. As a growing […] The post Great River Local News Coalition formed to expand resources for local journalism appeared first on Iowa Newspap

Weekend concerts and Battle of the Businesses were discussed as Dyersville Area Chamber Director Karla Thompson joined the program.

Several folks from the Iowa Economic Development Authority were in Manchester earlier this week to study Manchester’s retail environment and provide feedback to community leaders and retailers. Jim Thompson works …

An ag land specialist suggests the market could strengthen after harvest. Randy Thompson is licensed in Iowa for Base Camp Country Real Estate, which operates in about a dozen Midwestern states. “I think that there’s still a lot of strong bidding out there from local landowners (and) there’s a younger [...]

The CEO of the National Milk Producers Federation says finding a solution to the industry’s labor challenges remains a top priority. Gregg Doud says a bill from Congressman GT Thompson, chairman of the House Ag Committee, released in June, would provide the industry a long-overdue solution. “It is so much [...]

IARN – Finding enough workers remains a challenge across agriculture. Still, House Agriculture Committee Chairman G.T. Thompson says the federal guest worker program has not kept pace with the changing […]

House Ag Committee Chair Glen Thompson was recently at the Iowa State Fair and participated in a roundtable hosted by the Iowa Cattlemen’s Association. GT Thompson recently introduced the “Securing …