Iowa Farm Bureau Endorses Family Farmer Chuck Grassley for Re-Election

WEST DES MOINES — Today, Senator Chuck Grassley received the Friend of Agriculture endorsement from the Iowa Farm Bureau for his re-election to the U.S Senate.

“Iowa farmers deserve a champion for rural America at the policymaking tables because those who feed and fuel the world need a Senator who has their back. I’m proud to stand with Iowa agriculture and fight for the family farmer. I’m honored to earn the Farm Bureau’s endorsement for re-election,” Grassley said.

Chuck Grassley is Iowa’s voice for agriculture as a lifelong family farmer and one of only two crop farmers in the United States Senate. He wrote bipartisan legislation to bring transparency to the cattle market, champions biofuels, protects farmers and small businesses from double death taxes, and stands up against heavy-handed federal regulations, such as the Waters of the United States Rule. Farmers make the best Senators.

“With one in every five Iowans employed in agriculture and ag-related industries, we must elect Friend of Agriculture candidates who will continue to be champions for agriculture and the hard-working Iowa families who make their living feeding and fueling the world,” said Boone County farmer and Iowa Farm Bureau Federation PAC Chair, Kriss Haglund.

Meanwhile, Grassley’s Democrat opponent, Mike Franken:

• Supports the goals of the Green New Deal, which would add costly regulations to farm operations across Iowa,
• Supports bringing back the Obama-era Waters of the United States rule
• Supports President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better progressive agenda, which would increase the federal estate tax and sought to eliminate step-up in basis, adding a double death tax to farms and businesses,
• Opposes making E-15 sales permanent, despite its importance to the environment and Iowa economy,
• Said we need a “different equation for agriculture in the state of Iowa,” and
• Said, “it’s too bad that [the hog] industry has made capitalism such that so much of this crucial food supply is exported.”

Grassley serves on the Senate Agriculture Committee, and he runs his fourth-generation family farm with his son Robin and grandson Pat in Butler County.

The Iowa Farm Bureau represents more than 160,000 member families across the state.

View the Iowa Farm Bureau press release here.

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