Iowa voters last week elected nearly all of the candidates designated as 2014 Iowa Farm Bureau Federation (IFBF) “Friends of Ag­­riculture” for national and statewide offices, as well as those in the Iowa Legislature.

“I really think we have to be pleased with how well our members and our Political Action Committee (PAC) did in this election,” said Craig Hill, IFBF president. “Not only did we identify the candidates that best represented agriculture and Farm Bureau positions, our people worked very effectively to get those candidates elected.”
Friend of Agriculture candidates were successful in 79 out of the 81 races where a...