Zach Lahn

Yeah, it's that, you know, the producers, the farms are getting bigger and bigger and bigger.

And so what that actually means, and we've done the opposite on my farm, and I'd love to talk to you about that, but what that actually means is every time one of these farms goes away or disappears, there's life that we lose in our rural communities, right?

And our rural communities in Iowa, in the Midwest, they're on life support.

But these companies want to work with bigger and bigger producers.

And we know that.

We know why they want to do that.

It's easier.

They have less cost when they're dealing with less customers.

They can control people easier.

And so the statistics that you're talking about, about young farmers, you know, the World Economic Forum talked about that.

You'll own nothing and you'll be happy.

This is a part of it.

25% of Iowa's farmland, at least 25%, is now owned by people who don't live in the state.

Out-of-state funds and investors.

A quarter of my state is owned by people who will never go to a Friday night football game in our small town, who aren't shopping on our main streets.

Like, this is...

in line with Blackstone buying single-family homes, the same thing is happening to our agriculture community.

The thing that's so difficult for what I'm trying to undertake right now is to get to the farmers to help them understand that this is happening on purpose.

They don't want more family farms.

As a matter of fact, if you go to the WF, they don't want sovereignty for our country.