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both utilize the internet to pay bills, stream services, conduct business and shop. However, broadband access has ike those living in urban areas, rural Americans become critical in the fields, too, as new farm equipment need broadband. features new technology that requires internet connectivity. According to the Farm Bureau, success in agricul“For the individual farmer, there’s a lot of new technolture, health care, education and economic developogy available in the cab of the tractor that they are ment require rural areas to keep up with conable to use some real-time analysis of their IOWA E ST nectivity and technology. In a survey of its memcrops during the growing season,” Wheeler said. A W H bers, the Illinois Farm Bureau found that, of “Expanded broadband access allows farmers to 235 respondents from 178 towns, villages and tap into the full array of technologies that are cities, 75 percent reported having broadband available to them.” internet access at home, while 61 percent Wheeler said improved connectivity at home have broadband internet access on their farm. is also important to farmers as many do their COVERSTORY Fifty-six percent reported “lowest satisfaction” own bookwork. with their broadband internet service, and 66 “Especially since we live in a 24-7 global marpercent said the quality of their broadband internet ketplace, it’s beneficial to the farm operation there to negatively impacts their farming business. Seventy-one have the expanded access, so they are not left behind. It percent said IFB should “focus a lot” on this issue. actually allows the rural farmers – all farmers – to tap into Andrew Wheeler, Iowa Farm Bureau public relations coorthe potential of the marketplace,” Wheeler said. dinator, said rural Iowans experience similar issues and have similar lifestyles to their urban counterparts: They CONTINUED TO PAGE 84 G

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3CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 He said improved or expanded broadband access in rural areas also benefits the community as a whole. Without it, rural Iowans would be at a big disadvantage. “The majority of farmers do have off-farm jobs,” said Wheeler. “They work in town, a lot of them have side businesses and they are entrepreneurs.” Because of these needs, the Farm Bureau has supported legislation to increase broadband access in rural areas.

Legislation The Precision Agriculture Connectivity Act of 2018, which was introduced in the Senate by Sens. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and in the House by Congressmen Bob Latta (R-Ohio) and Dave Loebsack (D-Iowa), will help facilitate the deployment of broadband internet across rural America – including ranchland and cropland, where broadband con-

nectivity is increasingly essential for production agriculture. The legislation creates a task force to meet the connectivity and technology needs of precision agriculture by bringing public and private stakeholders to evaluate current programs affecting broadband internet access on cropland and ranchland, identify and measure existing gaps in coverage, and develop policy recommendations to address those gaps.

Task force The task force is also charged with developing specific steps the Federal Communications Commission, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and other federal agencies can take to address coverage gaps. According to House Resolution 4881, the task force’s duties include: • identifying and measuring current gaps in the availability of broadband Internet access service on agricultural land; • developing policy recommendations to promote the rapid, expanded deployment of fixed and mobile

broadband Internet access service on unserved agricultural land, with a goal of achieving reliable capabilities on 95 percent of agricultural land in the United States by 2025; • promoting effective policy and regulatory solutions that encourage the adoption of broadband Internet access service on farms and ranches and promote precision agriculture; • recommending specific new rules or amendments to existing FCC rules; • recommending specific steps the FCC should take to obtain reliable and standardized data measurements of the availability of broadband Internet access service as necessary to target funding support, from future FCC programs dedicated to the deployment of such service, to unserved agricultural land; and recommending specific steps the FCC should consider to ensure that the expertise of the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and available farm data are reflected in such future FCC programs. CONTINUED TO PAGE 94

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broadband services for as many rural American homes, businesses, farms, schools and health care facilities. “I have traveled extensively across the nation, and everywhere I go I have heard how important broadband is to rural Americans,” U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue said in a press release. Perdue said reliable and affordable internet e-Connectivity is the key to prosperity in the 21st Century, and he’s pleased Congress recognized the need and provided “critical” funding. “Broadband e-Connectivity is the next interstate highway system of global commerce, and connecting rural areas to broadband will be a game-changer for our entire nation. It is not just a federal issue; our success will be forged through partnerships,” he said. According to a 2018 FCC report, 80 percent of the 24 million American households that do not have reliable, affordable, high-speed internet are in rural areas. Without efforts like e-Connectivity, rural Americans cannot reach their full productivity in the workplace, receive the best education in schools nor the finest health care in hospitals. The pilot program was proposed by President Donald Trump and made possible by a $600 million appropriation from Congress in the Consolidated Budget Act of 2018. The framework outlined by Congress allocates these new federal funds to rural areas with a population of 20,000 or less. A wide variety of entities are eligible for funding, including incumbent and competitive rural telephone and broadband service providers, rural electric cooperatives, private firms (but not sole proprietors or partnerships), nonprofits and governmental bodies. Rural areas with current internet service speeds of 10 megabits per second (Mbps) download and 1 Mbps upload at the household will be eligible to apply for the pilot program funds. The requirements on build-out speeds are not specified by the law and are therefore under development. For more information, visit usda.gov. n

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or nearly 50 years, Virginia Reynolds and her late husband, Larry, worked together to manage their farms to conserve soil and protect water quality. After Larry passed away in 2013, she worked with an attorney to write soil and water conservation practice requirements into the leases for her Clarke County cropland. Virginia says Larry was particular about the way things were done on the farm, and she wanted to hold tenant farmers to the same standard. Larry no-till farmed for decades, planted buffer strips, grassed waterways and used extended crop rotations with corn, soybeans, oats and hay. “We worked for years doing it that way,” said Virginia. “I wasn’t going to let [potential renters] come in and do whatever they want.” In 1958, at the age of 21, Larry purchased his first farm where he milked cows near Osceola. After marrying, the couple sold the cropland portion of the Osceola farm in 1965 and used profits to buy their current farm near Weldon. Virginia still owns the timber portion of that Osceola farm. Later, they purchased two other tracts closer to home. In all, Virginia owns about 625 acres of timber, pasture and cropland. Virginia was very active on the farm. She did most of the hay cutting and baling, combining and bookwork.

“One of my renters baled cornstalks. I was just furious ... They think I don’t see anything going on. Well, I do. They think I’m just the meanest person in the world, but I won’t let them take advantage of me.” Virginia Reynolds “We were a team,” she said. “It worked well for us.” The Reynolds had three daughters. Two live with their families in central Iowa and the other resides in the Kansas City area. “None of them are farmers, but they provide a lot of input and are very supportive and advocate for the conservation work I am doing,” she said. Virginia says her daughter’s family who lives in Norwalk will one day move into the family homestead in Weldon.

Lease agreements After talking with her attorney, potential tenants and an auctioneer, Virginia decided to rent her three sections of cropland separately. Virginia included specific, high conservation standards in the lease language. “It’s absolutely no-till and they can’t take anything off the soil (such as baling cornstalks),” she said. “My lawyer was helpful. He asked me good questions and

included just what I expected in the lease agreements.” That specific language has been helpful. “One of my renters baled cornstalks. I was just furious,” said Virginia. “I told him ‘You can’t do that.’ I read it verbatim from his contract. He apparently didn’t read his contract. I think we’ve got that straightened out.” Virginia says another tenant used a field cultivator. “They think I don’t see anything going on. Well, I do,” she said, chuckling. “They think I’m just the meanest person in the world, but I won’t let them take advantage of me.” Virginia also requires renters to mow the pasture. “I told [my tenant], ‘I did that for years. You can do that. It’s fun!’”

Other conservation practices Many of Virginia’s tenant experiences have been positive, though. Brian Mateer approached her about collaborating on cover crops for the land he is renting. “Brian approached me and said he thought this would be good and I agreed, absolutely,” said Virginia. “We agreed that I would pay for the airplane and he paid for the seed.” In fall 2017, Mateer aerial applied cereal rye on about 100 cropland acres following corn. CONTINUED TO PAGE 134

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3CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12 Mateer, who farms many other acres, had experience using cereal rye cover crops to improve soil health, reduce soil erosion, and as a livestock feed supplement, said Dennis Schrodt, district conservationist for USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service in Osceola. “Brian uses cover crops on his other farms,” said Schrodt. “He knows how to manage them and makes sure he doesn’t end up with a mess in the spring. And having his cows out there helps add some microbial activity to the soil that it otherwise wouldn’t get.” Virginia has also added terraces on her cropland in recent years to treat soil erosion concerns, with assistance from NRCS and the Rathbun Land and Water Alliance. She is working with Schrodt to build 4,600 more feet of terraces next year through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program. “Larry wasn’t big into terraces, but I see the value in them and I think he might have changed his mind,” she said.

Stewardship Awards For her conservation efforts, Virginia received the 2017 RLWA Rathbun Lake Protectors Award and a 2018 Iowa Farm Environmental Leader Award at the Iowa State Fair in August, following a nomination from RLWA. Her home farm is the westernmost in the Rathbun Lake Watershed.

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old up, wait a minute, put that grain in the bin. That’s what the markets are telling most local farmers to do as soybean prices have spiraled downward to some of the lowest prices southern Iowa has seen in a long time. Farming is risky. During a combine ride he gave a local newspaper reporter in southern Adair County recently, Orient area farmer Matt Kuhns said that the one thing he’d like people to understand better about farming, and agriculture in general, is how risky of a business it really is. “There’s a lot more to farming than just running equipment,” he said. “There’s a lot of risk involved with weather and other things, but we try to do what we can control, like timely planting and fertilizer programs.

But then no matter what you do, it all depends on the weather.” Producers in Kuhns’ particular area were hit maybe the hardest of any region in southern Iowa because of a late June windstorm that damaged crops. Then, even after some had already begun harvesting, the area saw as much as 13 inches of rain in a week’s time in some spots. But compounding stress for farmers is still the markets. “There’s a lot of ups and downs, and we’re kind of in a down time right now. You’ve gotta be real positive as a farmer or I don’t think you could do this,” Kuhns said. “There’s a lot of stress involved. [Harvesting] is what we like to do, but we don’t get to do it all the time. The rest of the year we’re worrying about marketing or the next year because it’s coming. You’re always wanting to look ahead.” CONTINUED TO PAGE 164

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3CONTINUED FROM PAGE 15 Within those markets, one of the biggest roadblocks that farmers are facing right now have been soybean prices. Trade troubles between China and the United States are plummeting prices for farmers like Kuhns. Several years ago, when the Crestland Co-op ceased operations in Orient, Kuhns bought the elevator, which provides him a large amount of storage space. Other farmers don’t have the benefit of surplus storage space for grain. Either way, when prices plummet, farmers like Kuhns have fewer and fewer marketing options or they won’t make money. “We can’t break even or make a profit with these Matt bean prices. We’ve gotta Kuhns hope for the best, store them and wait till the prices get better and hope the bank will work with us so that we can wait till we have better prices,” Kuhns said. “We can’t sell for a loss two years in a row. That’s my plan.” Kuhns pre-sold some of his beans last spring but it’s impossible to do that with all of his crop. “You don’t know what you’re going to raise,” he said. “I did 35 bushel to the

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acre and was pretty happy with that, and I felt comfortable with that. If you didn’t raise it you’d have to buy it, and that would not be good.” Much of Kuhns’ land is within a short distance of Orient, in southern Adair County or northern Union County, which makes hauling it to Orient convenient. For other farmers, options include storage at elevators or even building more bins. But both of those options add cost,

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3CONTINUED FROM PAGE 16 Dean Michaelson, who manages Gavilon Grain in Creston, said in late October that this year’s soybean yields have been average, and the corn yields “pretty good.” As of Nov. 8, the Iowa Crop and Conditions Report said the 72 percent of the corn crop had been harvested, and 88 percent of soybeans. Michaelson said the trade war with China, not condition, yield or anything else, has been the main problem this harvest season with soybean prices. “We’re not exporting as many of our beans to our bean carry-out. The number of beans left over at the end of the year, that number is growing,” Michaelson said. “Because we’re exporting less beans, we have more beans in the U.S. to use and that kind of puts a lid on the prices because you have more supply than you have demand.” This situation means it’s decision time for farmers. Michaelson says most farmers are faced with a tough decision: When exactly do you pull the trigger? “The decision for them is when they pull the trigger on the grain they have. If they can forward sell, at these prices [that would have been wise]. We’re down to $7.50 and $7.60 [per acre] for beans, which is some of the lowest prices we’ve seen in five years. In 2012 and 2013, we were in the teens for beans, like $12 or $13 a bushel,” Michaelson said. “Last year, there were a lot of $9 beans, but this is the lowest bean prices we’ve seen in a long time. That’s what makes it tough for the farmer right now.” Looking ahead, Michaelson said that at least there’s light at the end of the tunnel. “We’re 40 to 50 cents more a bushel right now if you store it out to June or July, so right now it pays for a farmer to put it in his bin and sell it at a later time. Corn, it’s 25 cents to hold corn from now until April 1 then bring it to town later,” Michaelson said. “Right now, the market’s telling farmers to hold their crop off because it’s a supply and demand thing.” n

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3CONTINUED FROM PAGE 19 Charlene and her mother, Mary, work as a team on this venture, running Watkin Barn Quilts. Charlene usually sketches the designs onto the wood and Mary paints the majority of the quilts, with Charlene following up on touch-ups and coating the quilts with polyurethane. “My mom and I are like best friends. We work well together,” Charlene said. “We have the same kind of eye for things. She has strengths that are my weaknesses and my strengths are her weaknesses. It just works out well. We’re a well-oiled machine.” Charlene first began working on barn quilts nearly seven years ago through 4-H, when she worked on one with a group of 4-H’ers. That quilt was eventually hung on the barn at the Union County Historical Society. After that first experience, she decided to make one of her own to show at Union County Fair. “After that, I had some people ask me if I could make them one,” Charlene said. “It just became something that was a really cool hobby that I enjoyed. I kind of had a knack for it and I’ve always had an artistic eye.” Shortly after she started working on barn quilts, her mother joined in. Before long, they were taking orders for barn quilts and delivering to customers.

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“I saw that she had a talent for it, so I said, ‘We should do something with this,’” Mary said. “So, we decided to start up a little side business.” The orders started out small, coming mostly from family and friends. But now, the Watkin family has barn quilts hanging in almost every state in the U.S., and one in Europe. “A lot of it was word of mouth. We’d have people call us from Arizona and say, ‘Hey, I want one. Can you ship them?’ It’s crazy that someone would pick someone to do that in Iowa,” Charlene said. “It was kind of slow at first, just getting our name out. We’d go to different shows or the farmers market here in town.” Charlene and Mary take orders through their Facebook page (www.facebook. com/WatkinBarnQuilts), where customers can also see examples of every barn quilt they’ve made so far. In the early days of the venture, Charlene and Mary would meet with each client face to face. After discussing what each customer wanted, Charlene would sketch out the design on a piece of paper and show it to the client to make sure everyone was on the same page. Now, most of the communication is done through technology as more and more orders pour in. CONTINUED TO PAGE 214

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Design The idea behind barn quilts is simple. Most of them take their design from a quilting pattern or square, which the artists paints onto a wooden square. But the actual application isn’t that simple. “Barn quilts look pretty simple – just draw a line and paint along it – but it’s got a lot of mathematical brainwork behind it, too,” Charlene said. “She’s the one who does all the mathematical angles and stuff,” Mary added. Charlene said there are some designs she knows by heart now from sketching them onto the wood so many times. She knows exactly how many inches over and up a line needs to be placed. “We take a lot of pride in it. We like to please our customers and make sure we put out a good, quality piece of work,” Mary said. “People will send us a picture

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3CONTINUED FROM PAGE 25 “We continue to see farmers making investments and doing more to improve water quality and protect soil health,” Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig said in a Iowa Farm Bureau (IFB) press release. “These conservation awards are an opportunity to highlight and recognize farmers who take the extra step in their conservation efforts and serve as conservation leaders in their communities and across the state.” For Ide, conservation practices are second nature. It’s been the standard on his family’s farm. “Dad has always done a lot of conservation practices,” said Ide. “It’s just something I grew up with. I just want to take care of the land and livestock that God created here, and leave it better for the next generation.” The practices Ide executes not only help protect the environment, but they each provide other benefits, too: rotational grazing, no-till planting and the use of cover crops boost the soil’s organic matter; terracing is in place to slow water runoff; buffer strips run the length of some crop ground to prevent chemicals from leaching into neighboring waterways. The added benefit of Ide’s conservation practices is nutrient management. “The soil health is better,” said Ide. “[With cover crops and notilling] not only are you keeping it there, but you are technically feeding it.” Ide said there is a learning curve when it comes to understanding conservation, but there are a number of local agencies available to help with information and cost-sharing programs, such as the IFB and the Union County SWCD office. Through these resources, Ide participates in field tours and demonstrations to gain ideas to implement on his own farm. “No two things work for the same person,” said Ide. “Each person has different circumstances, purpose or objective … but, you can see things you can pick up for your own operation.” Ide doesn’t consider himself a role model. However, he was chosen for leading by example. “Everyone has a role to play in protecting our soil and water quality,” IFB President Craig Hill said in a press release. “Our role as farmers is to do more than grow food; we must all work toward leaving the land and watershed better for the next generation. The regional and statewide award winners have certainly shown their commitment to protecting Iowa’s soil and water and a willingness to share their experiences with fellow farmers, so we can all work together to make big strides in conservation.” As part of his award, Ide has been offered the free use of a John Deere 6E Series utility tractor for up to 12 months or 200 hours. The tractor prize was sponsored annually by Van Wall Equipment of Perry and John Deere. The Iowa Conservation Farmer of the Year Award is sponsored by the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation (IFBF) and the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship. Ide will be presented with the award in early September at the Conservation Districts of Iowa annual meeting in Des Moines. n

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