Zach Lahn
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Like, these are the common things that people are just looking for.
And it's not too much to ask that your government focuses on giving you
Your government focuses on making sure things that you should just be able to count on are there.
Here's one thing I'll tell you about the nitrate removal system.
So it'll remove... I don't even know the exact number of how many pounds of nitrogen.
Up until recently, after they removed it, they just dumped it back in the river.
Get the fuck out of here.
Are you... No way.
I'm serious.
I'm serious.
They now have some biological methods to where it'll break down the products.
But the way to get rid of it was to put it back in the river.
So, again, we have to have clean water in our state.
We have to have good education.
Our farmers have to be able to make money and not be extorted.
And I believe that one of my goals, I've said to people, is that...
Look, over 20 years, we've lost 10,000 family farms.
There's no term limits on the governor of Iowa, and I've made it very clear, like, this is not what I want to do for my life.
But I want to make it so there's 10,000 new family farms in the state.
Or that by the end of my second term, the majority of the food served in Iowa schools actually comes from our state.