A 50% tariff on Canadian goods hits August 19, justified partly by Canada's 'protectionist dairy system.' Bohanan Farm in Hopkinton buys its grain and fertilizer from Canada. Kelly Ayotte says she disagrees with the tariffs — and has declined every chance to do something about them.
Bruce Rastetter's carbon pipeline company won the power of eminent domain over Iowa farmland. FEC records show he's given Hinson's committees $42,000 — and he hosted her August 5 Senate fundraiser.
In March 2022, a check from Summit's Bruce Rastetter landed in Joe Mitchell's campaign account. Eight days later he cast the lone Republican vote against protecting Iowa landowners from the CO2 pipeline's eminent domain.
Finstad kept promising farmers the pain was temporary — from April 2025 through February 2026. Then he voted twice to protect the tariffs causing it, and China bought zero American soybeans.
Wisconsin ranks 13th of 50 on the measures we track — one of the better states in the country. All six of its Republicans in Congress just voted to spend that down.
The Trump administration cancelled a farmer-training grant in Iowa City as 'wasteful spending' — the same district Mariannette Miller-Meeks represents while she cheers on the cuts.
Arkansas already ranks 49th of 50 states on the measures we track. Now its own members of Congress have voted to cut Medicaid, SNAP, and farm support on top of it.
Two more things: his top donors are Boeing, Koch, Lockheed Martin and Tyson, and he opposes a ban on military-style semi-automatic weapons.
Zach Lahn runs for Iowa governor as a plain-spoken farmer and political outsider. The Wall Street Journal found a millionaire Koch operative who voted in Kansas as recently as 2022.
