A.G. Gancarski
A new op-ed from Gov. Ron DeSantis makes clear his commitment to farmers in the Hawkeye State.
The piece in the Des Moines Register argues a “robust agriculture sector is a key part of a stronger America, especially when it comes to the vitality of family farms and ranches,” and blames Washington for making farmers’ jobs tougher than they should be.
“In traveling across Iowa, I have spoken with farmers, ranchers, and others involved in the state’s agriculture industry about the challenges they face. Iowa farmers exemplify the values — faith in God, belief in family, and love of country — that serve as the foundation of America and do a great job feeding the world. Yet, the federal government insists on making it more difficult to farm,” the Governor writes.
“I will not allow unelected federal bureaucrats to stifle American agriculture. The federal government is out of control. This hurts our economy and critical industries like agriculture and distorts the very idea of constitutional government,” he adds.
The Governor rehashes his familiar arguments against electric vehicles, while saying ethanol at the pump would be part of his agenda that will “ensure that America’s fuel economy is driven by moms in Marion, not bureaucrats in Washington.”
Additionally, the consumption of animal flesh is key to his vision for America’s future, as evidenced by his take against environmental, social, and corporate governance.
“ESG is bad for agriculture — it seeks to expose social credit scores, penalize traditional farming practices, and even disfavor the use of meat. Such policies could very well generate a farm crisis. Elites that gather in places like Davos for the World Economic Forum seek to micromanage all aspects of society. Those types of policies will be dead on arrival in the DeSantis administration.”
DeSantis also vows to protect Iowans from California policy preferences.
“I will also keep ideologues in California off the backs of Iowa’s farmers and producers. California has tried to use its market power to dictate how Midwest farmers raise livestock and steward water. I will prevent both federal and state overreach from obstructing our agricultural industry.”
The Governor has made these arguments part of his ongoing tour of Iowa’s 99 counties, including a fiery denunciation of California laws insisting on giving pregnant pigs room to turn around in captivity.
26 comments
My Take
September 9, 2023 at 7:11 pm
The federal government tends to bribe farmers rather than force them.
But a few things are forced. Are any and all poisons going to be allowed to be used in any and all ways? Or will there still be federal federal approvals and rules?
Earl Pitts American
September 10, 2023 at 4:16 am
Dont worry America,
I, Earl Pitts American, noticed it too and the vest experiement is going to be retired to the closet of campaign memoriblila never to be seen again.
Lets not further discuss the vest look any more and all just agree to move forward to victory.
Thank you America,
EPA
M. Mouse
September 10, 2023 at 2:40 pm
But he looks so preppy and peppy in the vest! Like a frat boy who just got some!
Squeak!
Earl Pitts American
September 11, 2023 at 10:13 pm
Thanks Mickers,
Good eye there my mouse, you see why its headed to the never to be seen again pile of dysfunctional bad idea campaigne memorabila!!!!!!
EPA
Earl Pitts American
September 11, 2023 at 10:15 pm
Mickers,
We can hide the white boots right up under the vest!!!!
EPA
My Take
September 9, 2023 at 7:26 pm
Outlaw vegetableintarianists!!
Make them eat meat! At gunpoint if necessary!
Just shoot the California ones!
. . . DeSShameless
Rick Whitaker
September 9, 2023 at 7:47 pm
desantis has something in common with iowa. he is corny and living in the past. he hates california because their success make him look bad in florida
My Take
September 9, 2023 at 7:54 pm
He has the personality of silage.
And reportedly table manners more befitting a trough.
PeterH
September 9, 2023 at 9:18 pm
I think it’s humorous that DeSantis keeps intimating policies he will institute once he becomes President!
He will never be president! He will never sit in the Oval Office! Try to imagine anti-vaxer Ladapo heading up DeSantis’s Center for Disease Control!?!?!🙄🙄🙄🙄
JD
September 9, 2023 at 9:33 pm
Let’s let the Iowian farmers speak with the Florida farmers before this get’s shilled as a win. And not the corporate owned farms either.
The AG sector in FL may want a word or two.
When they have a Florida State House Representative begging (crying harder in Twitter speak) to immigrant community leaders to convince the workers to stay, lets hope they figured out the error of their ways.
But we all know they won’t. Hypocricy.
My Take
September 9, 2023 at 10:11 pm
Southern farmers went through this before, a century ago. Blacks–treated like dirt in the new Jim Crow era–responded to labor recruiters and left by the trainload to northern industrial cities for thè harder jobs in the WWI-triggered boom. Farmers were panicing. Southern sheriffs even tried to stop it by force. The soon advent of the common tractor is probably what saved big southern agriculture.
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JD
September 10, 2023 at 12:54 am
Well the current machinery’s almost fairly automated and AG robotics are coming to fruition (pun intended). It might save them.
My Take
September 10, 2023 at 1:10 am
I think I’ve heard that some tractors operating out in big fields may not have drivers in them!
My Take
September 10, 2023 at 1:07 am
DeSScamus must think all Iowans just fell off the turnip truck, what with his shabby claims.
My Take
September 10, 2023 at 1:36 am
DeSScamus is in many ways a fringer kook, and an opportunistic follower of opinion fads.
He should be asked about all the Congressional and Pentagon hubbub on UFOs.
Does he believe in space aliens?
What is he going to do about them if president?
Should we shoot them?
Are they woke?
Michael K
September 10, 2023 at 7:09 am
Hey farmers: Ron doesn’t care about you any more than he cares for the people of Florida. You are simply a stepping stone to his and Casey’s personal political ambition. He’s a DeSaster.
woke up in the fields
September 10, 2023 at 9:32 am
The only things that Rona has ever grown are hatred, division, mistrust of government, resentment, anger, racism, disrespect for bodily autonomy and gross stupidity. He ain’t no farmer; he is a poser.
tom palmer
September 10, 2023 at 10:14 am
Zelig for President!
TJC
September 10, 2023 at 11:52 am
Sorry, Ron, but the farmers can’t use your B.S. to fertilize crops, so they have no use for you or your B.S.
And “…faith in God, belief in family, and love of country…” is hardly what the agricultural conglomerates of America run on. They run on eliminating competition from small farmers and sucking up federal and state subsidies to make their billions of bucks.
And no one believes you have faith in God, belief in family, and love of country. You can use those phrases all you want, but we know self-serving ambition when we smell it.
Daniel Rousseau
September 10, 2023 at 1:39 pm
DeSantis will always remember Iowa—because it is where his presidential prospects peaked and perished. On the other hand, he would be a perfect President of Iowa.
JC
September 10, 2023 at 3:07 pm
“The Governor has made these arguments part of his ongoing tour of Iowa’s 99 counties……”
And the more counties DeSantis visits, the more people get to the know him and the more he drops. DeSantis is down 40 points currently.
ScienceBLVR
September 10, 2023 at 6:46 pm
…I’m a farmer, Max Yasgur.
Margaret
September 10, 2023 at 6:51 pm
Meanwhile, from this Governor, Florida allows development on farmland, destroying good land for ticki-tacky housing, and removing it for growing the crops closer to where people live.
Mike
September 10, 2023 at 8:25 pm
Put Desantis in a sow gestation crate for a 115 days so he can see the problem from the sows point of view.
Fancy
September 10, 2023 at 8:42 pm
Trump gave Iowa farmers a billion dollars in payments for damages from his failed trade war with China at a time when they were recieving record prices for their crops and livestock. Let see Desantis top that.
Joe
September 11, 2023 at 2:06 pm
More of the same from Tiny D: dishonest, disingenous, pointless pandering to the rubes.
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