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You Heard it Here Second
There’s no apparent end in sight for the elevated nitrate episode affecting the Des Moines area’s municipal water supply. Data from the Des Moines Water Works (DMWW) website shows the treated drinking water from the Fleur Drive treatment pl...
The Real Reason Farmers Aren’t Adapting to Climate Change
Note: If you don’t know her or of her, I’m very happy to introduce Wendy Johnson to my Substack readers. She contributed this heartfelt and informative story you’re about to read. Her bio is at the end.
Wendy in an organic field of oats u...
Iowa Farm Bureau Candidate Questionnaire
People ask me “What are you going to do about Farm Bureau?” at my speaking events. Not at every event, but pretty often. It’s clear that many folks feel Iowa Farm Bureau Federation (IFBF) wields a disproportionately large and overwhelmingly...
The Long Con
As the midnight hour fast approached for the 2026 legislation session, someone apparently informed Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig and Governor Kim Reynolds that drinking polluted water might be an issue in the 2026 election. One we...
Testing, Testing, Testing
The two most important metrics for stream nitrate are concentration and load. Concentration is the amount of a pollutant, i.e. nitrate in this case, per unit volume of water. Nitrate is a negative ion comprised of one nitrogen atom and thre...
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Democratic candidate for Iowa Secretary of Agriculture and author of "The Swine Republic", the 2024 Iowa selection for the Library of Congress National Book Festival.
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