The incestuous relationships between the Farm Bureau, commodity groups, bankers and politicians have developed a unique methodology to maintain their roles in keeping “the wolves” away from the farm. Guest columnist

Thomas Dorr of West Des Moines is former USDA Under Secretary for Rural Development and former CEO and president U.S. Grains Council.

It never ceases to amaze me the willingness to continually cast aspersions on those who take considerable risk to create significant improvements in agricultural products and processes resulting in production and quality of life gains ("Who are Iowa's biggest landowners?" Oct. 5).

What Bob Van Diest, Harry Stine, and the others mentioned in the Register's most recent story have done has resulted in lowering costs of production while increasin

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