Scarville
Scarville, IA · Business
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NAFB’s National Ag News
John Deere plans to close two Iowa manufacturing facilities and shift production elsewhere over the next several years. According to Progressive Farmer, the company will move windrower and round baler production from Ottumwa to Des Moines and transfer Hagie STS sprayer production from Clarion, Iowa, to Thibodaux, Louisiana. The Iowa Capital Dispatch reported that about 300 employees could be affected under normal production levels, although Deere said workforce impacts will depend on future business conditions and current production remains below typical levels due to the downturn in agriculture. Ottumwa officials estimate the closure could ultimately eliminate about 400 jobs and more than $30 million in payroll. AgWeb reported Deere expects to close the 115-year-old Ottumwa plant by fiscal year 2029, with the Clarion facility following a similar timeline. The company says it remains committed to its planned $20 billion investment in U.S. manufacturing over the next decade despite softer equipment sales and lower profits.
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KAAL ABC 6 NEWS Minnesota Iowa
Spotlight on Business: A Pilates studio, auto care shop and phone store
(ABC 6 News) – This week’s Spotlight on Business highlights three new business coming to Rochester: A Pilates studio, auto car shop and a phone store. Realty Growth showcases local businesses every Wednesday in Spotlight on Business. Have a place you’d like to see featured on our next segment? Let us know by sending us […]
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Prime Timer
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This Old-School Minnesota Butcher Shop Still Offers Custom Meat Cuts That Families Swear By
Some shopping trips are worth planning a whole Saturday morning around. In a tiny southern Minnesota town, a butcher counter has quietly built the kind of loyalty most big stores can only dream about. Families drive in for custom cuts, hunters bring in their deer, and road-trippers stock up on...
winonapost.com
Winona eyes big changes to promote housing
Winona is considering taking a couple big swings to address the city's housing challenges and promote more development. Last month, city staff presented to the City Council on barriers to development, and proposed eliminating parking minimums and replacing lot size minimums and dimension standards with aesthetic rules. Winona has faced...
Fillmore County Journal
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WinCraft yanks line workers’ chairs, then yields
WINONA, Minnesota — Nobody would ever call Sharon Langve a rabble-rouser, but the 71-year-old production line employee at WinCraft, one of Winona’s largest employers, maneuvered the company into reversing a worker-unfriendly policy change. A boss in Langve’s 30-employee unit were told in September that their chairs were being take away. They would need to stand all shift at their tedious assembly benches. The change, unexpected, was alarming for Langve, who has two artificial knees, and also for co-workers with leg and back issues. An immediate suspicion was that WinCraft, which has 360 employees, was not budget-cutting — getting rid of senior employees and replacing them newcomers at lower starting wages. No, no, explained bosses. The workplace floorplan was being redesigned to increase production, which squeezed outs space for chairs. Either way, this is what happened next: