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Business Beat
2:15 pm
Wed April 11, 2012

Business Beat: Railroad Looking to Roll Again

Credit Kathleen Masterson / Harvest Public Media
Cows at Terry Van Maanen's farm in Sioux County, Iowa, wait to be milked.

This week: Find out how one community is going back in time to move businesses forward.  Plus, what dairy farmers want more protection in the 2012 Farm Bill.

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Business
1:46 pm
Wed April 11, 2012

Railroad Looking to Roll Again

Credit Dean Borg / Harvest Public Media
Unused for years, the train tracks at the Farmers' Co-op Association in Forest City, Iowa, are set to see rail cars again soon.

It’s been seven years since folks around Forest City, Iowa, have heard a train whistle on the nearby tracks. But Iowa Northern locomotives will soon be switching railcars alongside the towering grain silos at the town’s co-op elevator.

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