When farmers are being thrown in jail by an out-of-control federal government for making changes to their own land, we know we have a crisis in rural America.

Here are four things we can do immediately to improve the profitability of American farms while getting the federal government off our land.

Ethanol

Sen. Grassley and I co-sponsored legislation that will increase demand for ethanol. When my staff studied the federal regulations related to ethanol production, we found many regulations (quietly inserted by powerful anti-ethanol interests) that actually prevent ethanol from being taken to market....