Farmers shouldn’t need permission to fix what they own

By: Aaron Lehman

Outlets: Iowa Capital Dispatch

Published: February 27, 2026

Words: 657

Last Updated: 1 week, 5 days ago

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When something breaks on our farm, my first instinct is the same one my father had, and his father before him: figure out what’s wrong, fix it, and get back to work.

That instinct is bred into Iowa farmers. We are, as Rep. Derek Wulf put it when he introduced House File 2709, “the best problem solvers” this state has. But somewhere along the way, the manufacturers who build our equipment decided that solving our …

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