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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Iowa will receive an infusion of $152 million in federal money toward 19 rural development projects across the state in what U.S.

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Iowa will receive an infusion of $152 million in federal money toward 19 rural development projects across the state in what U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins called an "unprecedented" effort ...