The Bridgestone tire plant in Des Moines is offering severance packages to about 130 employees, after laying off more than a hundred people last June. The factory makes tires for farm machinery. Local ...

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Reading about the recent round of layoffs at John Deere’s Ottumwa plant got me thinking about the future of farming and the ...