Lee Enterprises acquires Iowa farm publication.Lee Enterprises (Davenport, IA), through its Lee Agri-Media division, has acquired Iowa Farmer Today from Gazette Communications (Cedar Rapids Cedar Rapids, city (1990 pop. 108,751), seat of Linn co., E central Iowa, on the Cedar River; inc. as a city 1856. The second largest city in Iowa, it is named for the surging rapids in the river. , IA). No terms were given. Iowa Farmer Today is a weekly agricultural news publication distributed to 73,500 farm households in Iowa and bordering counties of neighboring states. Produced in four editions (NE, NW, SE and SW), the acquired title becomes a part of Lee's network of six agricultural newspapers and two farm guides serving more than 350,000 farms in 11 states. Gazette, which owns a local daily newspaper and tv and radio stations, said that farm consolidation has changed the publishing landscape and that "we made the decision to sell and have IFT IFT Institute of Food Technologists IFT Institut für Fenstertechnik (German: Institute for Window Technology) IFT Illinois Federation of Teachers IFT Integrated Flight Test IFT Interfacial Tension IFT Institute for Tropospheric Research Join an established, quality organization rather than expand farther into neighboring states, some already being served by Lee." The eight other Lee Agri-Media titles include: Midwest Messenger and Farm & Ranch Guide (Tekamah, NE), Minnesota Farm Guide and Bullseye An established reference point from which the position of an object can be referenced. See also reference point. (Minn., MN), Tri-State Neighbor (Sioux Falls Sioux Falls, city (1990 pop. 100,814), seat of Minnehaha co., SE S.Dak., on the Big Sioux River; settled 1856, inc. as a village 1877, as a city 1883. Settlers abandoned the site in 1862 because of Native American raids, but with the establishment (1865) of Fort , SD), The Prairie Star (Great Falls Great Falls, city (1990 pop. 55,097), seat of Cascade co., N central Mont., second largest city in the state, at the confluence of the Missouri and Sun rivers and near the falls that give the city its name; inc. 1888. , MT), Agri-View (Madison, WI) and Ag Weekly (Twin Falls, ID). |
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