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Outsider farm owners are an issue in the governor’s race. Here’s what experts say.

iowacapitaldispatch.com · 3h · first reportShare

As agricultural land prices have increased drastically over the past two decades and young, want-to-be farmers have an increasingly difficult time starting their operations, politicians nationally, and here in Iowa, have questioned if corporate or foreign interests are to blame. Iowa gubernatorial candidates Zach Lahn and Rob Sand both have said corporate or out-of-state ownership of […]