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Part 3: Cornucopian Stakeholders (Sustainable Agriculture in Iowa)

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We’re finally onto PART THREE of our shindig on sustainable agriculture in Iowa— digging into the depths of cornfields in Iowa to get to the root of the seemingly-random water-quality problems. In this section we get to talk about the Cornucopian side of the story, and what this specific stakeholder group has to say about the issue!

If you can’t remember what the heck a stakeholder is (or what the difference is between Cornucopians and Environmentalists), feel free to scan through Part 1 (on the Raw History) and Part 2 (on Environmentalist Stakeholders) of this series again! (Here’s a little chart to keep things easy, too.)

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Part 2: Environmentalist Stakeholders (Sustainable Agriculture in Iowa)

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Here we are— Part TWO of sustainable agriculture learning with a real life example in the geographical region of Iowa! So much fun research to share!

If you haven’t read Sustainable Agriculture: Kernels of Truth: Part One “The Raw History”, yet, click your fingers on over there to learn about the back-end-business of how agriculture grew up! You’ll also get some intel on subsidies, learn why it’s so darn hard to be a farmer in the U.S. today (Farmer Steve who sells me guavas at my local market attests to this as well) and why agriculture might be at the root of a lot of environmental problems (whhhaaaat?!).

This time we’re gettin’ down with specifics— and that means STAKEHOLDERS! AKA… Who the heck benefits from all those yellow grains grown? Here’s a handy dandy chart to keep things organized: 

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Part One: The Raw History (Sustainable Agriculture in Iowa)

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Agriculture has been practiced for THOUSANDS of years on Earth, but only in the last century or so has it been industrialized oh-so-much (especially in the United States). Agricultural policies (which basically means the stuff the big guys regulate about agriculture) in the 1970’s set the stage for the present when they stared encouraging the overproduction of commodities, especially corn and soy. Producers became more and more reliant on government subsidies as spending money . Basically, the policies made it hard for producers to actually make a profit selling what they grew because the government had set prices so low.

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