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Article: America's premier blue cheese comes from Iowa
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- October 27, 1988
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NEWTON, Iowa A sprawling appliance factory and its support
facilities look decidedly out of place here in central Iowa, an area
of expansive grain fields and broad horizons.
Yet, for most of the century, this industrial complex has cast
its shadow over neighboring farms and pastures.
However, in this instance, the relationship of manufacturing to
agriculture is a comfortable, not contentious one.
Just down a narrow blacktop road from the plant, the harmony of
low and high technology is particularly pronounced.
Off to the right sits a small, well-kept dairy. The vista of
two-story farmhouse, milking barn and surrounding cornfields recalls
"the heartland," a phrase Iowans so often use ...