Iowa farmers truly showed their remarkable resilience, re­sourcefulness and grit through the past year-and-half marked by the pandemic, drought, derecho and trade disruption, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds said last week at the 2021 Iowa Farm Bureau Federation annual meeting.

“If there is anything we’ve learned, it’s the importance of Iowa’s role in putting food on the table for America and the world,” Reynolds said. “It’s a big job, but one that is reliably anchored in our great state by the hard-working Iowa farm families.”

Reynolds thanked Farm Bureau members for their strong support earlier this year as the Iowa...