

In addition to the expanded Innovation Center, Landus plans to build out open-concept employee workspaces onsite granting its remote workers a unique space to collaborate, foster connections, and engage with Innovation Center Events.

“We will continue to put our farmer-owners at the center of everything we do, giving them a greater voice with collaborators in the ag innovation space.” "Des Moines provides us the opportunity to enhance this piece of our business and better support future collaborations with leaders in data and emerging technologies. “Our Innovation Center has experienced great success in its first year, and I look forward to more growth ahead," said Matt Carstens, president and CEO of Landus. Subscribe here for Grain E-News delivered to your inbox every Thursday.

Landus will continue to operate this complementary rural innovation hub in conjunction with the planned expansion in Des Moines. The company first launched this farmer-centric innovation initiative in June at an existing office in Ralston, IA, where farmers could connect directly with global innovation leaders to drive a more sustainable and profitable future of farming. No injuries were reported.Ames, IA - Landus intends to enter a long-term lease agreement to expand its Innovation Center and eventually move its headquarters address to the Gray’s Landing commercial development site in downtown Des Moines, IA, according to a Tuesday, Nov.
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The storm flattened trees, snapped power poles and blew out windows in homes. The NWS said the storms generated an EF-1 tornado in south-eastern Wisconsin near Stoughton that included winds up to 80mph. The tornadoes were followed by winter storms that dropped about 5in of snow in central Iowa and 6.5in in Mount Vernon in eastern Iowa. The storms on Saturday damaged or destroyed other homes and downed power lines and trees, causing some power outages. Another tornado a month later killed four boys at the Little Sioux Boy Scout ranch in western Iowa. The storms were the deadliest in Iowa since May 2008, when a tornado destroyed nearly 300 homes and killed nine in the northern city of Parkersburg. The Iowa department of natural resources said the person who died was in an RV at a campground at Red Haw state park in Chariton, Iowa. The seventh death on Saturday came from Lucas county, about 54 miles south-east of Des Moines, when a tornado struck less than an hour later, injuring several other people. The twister was rated an EF-3, with peak winds of 138mph, by the National Weather Service (NWS). Two others killed in the tornado – Rodney Clark, 64, and Cecilia Lloyd, 72 – lived just down the street from Bazley in homes also hit by the tornado. Other family members who sought shelter in the home’s pantry were injured. The storm killed Bazley, 37-year-old Michael Bolger and two of his three young children.Ī GoFundMe page for the family said Kuri Bolger, the children’s mother and Bazley’s daughter, was seriously injured. The children and their parents, from Blue Springs, Missouri, were visiting their grandmother, Melissa Bazley, 63. Two children, their father and grandmother died when the tornado hit the grandmother’s home near Winterset on Saturday afternoon, the Madison county sheriff, Jason Barnes, told television station KCCI.
