Heating Up
Heating Up
Emily Fischer
Culture of Cultivation: Matters of the State
10 minutes Posted Feb 9, 2022 at 7:30 pm.
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Featuring Shannon Roesler, professor of law at the University of Iowa. Agriculture is ingrained into Iowa culture. But it is also at the root of Iowa's environmental degradation. With environmental policies determined largely by the state, farmers are left in a tricky situation. Should they abandon state and federal funding to adopt costly environmentally-friendly practices? Or should they keep their funding and farm their way into environmental ruin?