Water quality is shaping up to be a big issue in many of Iowa’s races for the Nov. 3 election but especially in Iowa’s race for secretary of agriculture, where Republican incumbent Mike Naig faces water quality advocate and Democratic candidate Chris Jones.  Iowa Capital Dispatch sat down with each candidate to talk about water […]

As part of his bid to be Iowa’s next secretary of agriculture, Democratic candidate Chris Jones unveiled policy framework with a 10-year goal of requiring schools to source half of their food from local farms.  Jones, whose platform focuses largely on improving water quality in Iowa, said building the infrastructure to support locally grown food […]