Too much of the wealth created by our current farming systems go out of state to large, often foreign, corporate packers, grain merchants, seed, chemical, fertilizer and machinery manufacturers. Guest columnist

John Gilbert farms with other family members in Hardin County, raising crops and livestock along South Fork, a tributary of the Iowa River.

It's officially time Iowa has one of those warnings like on cigarette packages: "Caution: Living in Iowa is Hazardous to Your Health!"

The problem isn't just that Iowa's water carries way too many farm field pollutants (we're all tired of hearing about nitrates), although that's part of it. It's not just that Iowa has way too many people dealing with cancer ; or just that jobs in agriculture, meat packing, construction and manufacturing c

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