To the editor:

I’ve been a proud fourth-generation farmer and resident of Wright County for a long time. I’ve seen a lot of things change in my time, but one thing we al­­ways used to agree on is that we’re all in this together.

I’ve been out of hog production for awhile now, but I have plenty of neighbors and folks I call friends who are still in it. We may have our differences, but we all get along, because I was raised to believe that is what rural Iowans do: We...