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Article: Iowa, Illinois get new winery co-ops.(NEWSLINE)
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- Rural Cooperatives
- Article date:
- March 1, 2005
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Iowa and Illinois are not usually thought of as wine-producing states, but each has a growing number of small vineyards and new cooperatives are forming to serve the growers. Two Rivers Grape and Wine Cooperative is the first farmer-owned cooperative making wine and growing grapes in Iowa, according to the Des Moines Register. The new winery is one of about a dozen planning to open soon in Iowa. It is more evidence, say Iowa wine boosters, that the state is undergoing a rebirth of an industry that was all but wiped out by Prohibition and other factors.
"The wine industry is growing so fast, I'm having trouble keeping up," White, of the Iowa State University Extension, told ...
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