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Posted on 08/13/2026 10:21:58 AM PDT by rktman
Democrat Chris Jones, who is running for Iowa secretary of agriculture, was rebuked by Iowa Republicans after saying farmers are “wealthy,” grain farming is “not that hard,” and farmers are “only working a few weeks out of the year.”
The remarks were highlighted Tuesday by Iowa Field Report, which posted video from a 2021 interview Jones gave at the Iowa Ideas Conference, hosted by the Cedar Rapids Gazette.
“And a lot of this grain farming now, it’s not that hard. They’re only working a few weeks out of the year,” Jones said.
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Guy is a nitwit.
Grain farming is very hard. The challenge shifts from daily manual labor to high financial risk, massive machinery costs, and unpredictable weather.
While grain farming does not require round-the-clock physical chores of dairy or livestock farming, it demands fierce business resilience and deep, deep capital.
Lmao. I am sure farmers will be thrilled to find out they are slackers!
You can’t fix stupid.
What he sees as “wealth” is encumbered by mortgage debt to banks, and leases-loans on large pieces of equipment.
Lying sack of crap. I know a family in Iowa. The dad and all 3 sons work every day of the week. The wives drive field trucks for them and bring lunch. If not in the field they are in the shop fixing broken stuff and machinery maintenance. From mid-September until late-November to December they are harvesting. In the spring they are prepping and planting. In between it is all machine work, bailing hay for a few cows they own and such.
I bet he wants trans gender dairy cows too.
Right, they family I know runs 2 combines and several other implements non-stop. Doesn’t include driving 18 wheelers all day from farm to railroad head.
Is he endorsed by Bernie and AOC?
Paul Harvey
‘So God Made a Farmer’ Speech to the FFA
delivered November 1978, Kansas City, MO
[AUTHENTICITY CERTIFIED: Text version below transcribed directly from audio (2)]
And on the 8th day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, “I need a caretaker”
— so God made a Farmer.
God said, “I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, milk cows, work all day in the fields, milk cows again, eat supper, then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the school board”
— so God made a Farmer.
“I need somebody with arms strong enough to rustle a calf and yet gentle enough to deliver his own grandchild; somebody to call hogs, tame cantankerous machinery, come home hungry, have to wait lunch until his wife’s done feeding visiting ladies, then tell the ladies to be sure and come back real soon — and mean it”
— so God made a Farmer.
God said, “I need somebody willing to sit up all night with a newborn colt, and watch it die, then dry his eyes and say, ‘Maybe next year.’ I need somebody who can shape an ax handle from a persimmon sprout, shoe a horse with a hunk of car tire, who can make harness out of haywire, feed sacks and shoe scraps; who, planting time and harvest season, will finish his forty-hour week by Tuesday noon, and then pain’n from tractor back, put in another seventy-two hours”
— so God made a Farmer.
God had to have somebody willing to ride the ruts at double speed to get the hay in ahead of the rain clouds, and yet stop in mid-field and race to help when he sees the first smoke from a neighbor’s place
— so God made a Farmer.
God said, “I need somebody strong enough to clear trees and heave bails, yet gentle enough to tame lambs and wean pigs and tend the pink-combed pullets, who will stop his mower for an hour to splint the broken leg of a meadow lark.”
It had to be somebody who’d plow deep and straight and not cut corners; somebody to seed, weed, feed, breed and rake and disc and plow and plant and tie the fleece and strain the milk and replenish the self-feeder and finish a hard week’s work with a five-mile drive to church; somebody who would bale a family together with the soft strong bonds of sharing, who would laugh, and then sigh, and then reply, with smiling eyes, when his son says that he wants to spend his life “doing what dad does”
— so God made a Farmer.
Yes. The goal for American agriculture in the 21st Century must be to modernize through technology, not continue to import a serf class every year. https://t.co/t8KliftiT4— Immigration Accountability Project Action (@iaproject) August 11, 2026
Yeah, where I live in Oregon, wherever I go I pass grass seed fields, giant and small. I see the farmers in the fields at all hours, dawn till dusk. Some of them are wealthy, but they work hard for it.
I have cousins that work for grass seed companies. They work hard, too. One is a salesman. He travels all over the country visiting seed and farm stores. He also provides education to workers about planting grass seed and installing turf.
And lots of ammonia.
I have relatives who do corn farming in Illinois. It is interesting to look at the barns. The older ones have provisions for animals. The more recent are mechanical shops to repair harvesting and planting equipment. Outside is effectively a chemical plant.
Farming, as is commonly celebrated, HAS changed, and from what I've seen, the soil is showing the damage.
“only working a few weeks out of the year.”
but enough about Congress
Oh, he didn't literally say it, but that message should be clear.
““They’re only working a few weeks out of the year,” Jones said.””
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Obviously, he’s confusing farmers with congress.
Thx
“You can’t fix stupid.”
Or said another way: you can’t fix democrats.
Political suicide successfull.
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