Farmers shouldn’t need permission to fix what they own

Farmers shouldn’t need permission to fix what they own

A farmer harvests corn near Slater, Iowa on Oct. 17, 2020. (Photo by Perry Beeman/Iowa Capital Dispatch)When something breaks on our farm, my first instinct is the same one my father had, and his father before him: figure out what’s wrong, fix it, and get back to work. That instinct is bred into Iowa farmers. We are, as Rep. Derek Wulf put it when he introduced House File 2709, “the best problem solvers” this state has. But somewhere along the w…