Ask most anyone around the country, and Iowa is known for one thing: food production. We are the breadbasket of the globe. Our contribution to the worldwide community is an important but unglamorous one. Our state gets lumped in as a flyover state, confused with others such as Idaho and Ohio, and is assumed by outsiders to be a place where every resident seemingly lives on a farm.
Despite our humble agricultural facade, the state of Iowa is progressing in ways that is earning it recognition nationwide. Recently, I attended a learning session for work where the speaker from Innovative Kinetics discussed alternative energy solutions such as wind power, solar power, and electric vehicles. Anyone who has driven along I-80 in western Iowa or through parts of northern Iowa knows that this state has a large presence of wind turbines.
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