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Hawkeye State goes beyond hogs and corn

Hog farm in Shelby County, Iowa, 1940 / Photo courtesy of Irving Rusinow, National Archives and Records Administration

There is more in Iowa than corn and hogs – although Iowa leads the country in the production of both.

There is, for example, Maytag blue cheese. In 1919, E.H. Maytag, son of the founder of the appliance firm, started a herd of Holstein show cattle that became famous. In 1940, Fred Maytag II, who succeeded his father, worked with scientists at Iowa State University to ... Continue reading about Iowa