To the editor: Whether Republican or Democrat, politicians think that even though WE can’t manage our own lives, THEY are blessed with the superior intellect to do so. Facts prove them wrong. The founders of this country saw that guaranteeing us the freedom to choose in our relationships ...
To the editor: Five years ago, Summit Carbon Solutions rolled out its plan for the Midwest Carbon Express, a 2,000-mile pipeline designed to transport carbon dioxide collected from ethanol plants in five states and sequester it underground in North Dakota. The project has met fierce ...
To the editor: In August of 2021, 15,000 Iowa landowners received certified letters from Summit Carbon Solutions informing us that our property could potentially be on the route of its CO2 pipeline. We were told the project would be operational by 2024. Obviously, things did not go as ...
To the editor: In response to Mr. Kruse’s article recently entitled, “There are a few in every bushel,” I will admit I am one of those “few.” You participated in a demonstration at the Iowa State Capitol lobbying against a bill that you say would “bar the use of eminent domain ...
To the editor: I want to express a big thank you to the Farm News editor for printing Mr. George Naylor's Jan. 9th letter “A Better Way. Facts Matter.” — like the history of Roosevelt's New Deal parity price floor grain program and the role it played in propping up Mainstreet ...
To the editor: I can’t imagine any farmer hoping that a pipeline will get installed across their farm. That said, I think we need the carbon pipeline anyway. I was encouraged to hear that there is a proposal in the Iowa legislature to widen the pipeline route in an effort to work with ...
It’s the beginning of yet another session of the Iowa Legislature with the unresolved issue of eminent domain for CO2 pipelines frustrating legislators and landowners alike. Numerous bills to address the problem were introduced during the past four sessions, but only one made its way to the ...
The Dec. 26 issue of Farm News features columns of Alan Guebert and David Kruse that ignore history or common sense to avoid the calamity of losing more of the best farmers in Iowa. This cost-price squeeze has happened over and over again since I started farming 50 years ago. They ignore the ...
To the editor: According to a recent news story, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency just gave a slap-on-the-wrist fine to a big cattle feedlot in northwest Iowa for “unauthorized wastewater discharges” that occurred over three consecutive days in March 2021. That seems like the ...
To the editor: After reading the Farm News Friday, Aug. 22, farmer advice column, "Low prices cure low prices … or so we've been told" by David Kruse his advice "to embrace the suck" is what psychologists and philosophers would call defeatism and for farmers to accept market exploitation! ...