{"id":465,"date":"2026-06-09T16:08:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T16:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=465"},"modified":"2026-06-09T16:08:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T16:08:59","slug":"the-lobe-rangers-are-fighting-to-make-farming-in-iowa-more-sustainable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=465","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cLobe Rangers\u201d Are Fighting to Make Farming in Iowa More Sustainable"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<div><!-- Tag ID: motherjones_right_rail_1 -->\n<\/div> <\/div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A white man in cap and plaid shirt stands in a fallow field on a cloudy day, pointing to something in the distance.\" class=\"wp-image-464\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/794466295c82d33d7d9db8518b138483-1024x575.webp\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/794466295c82d33d7d9db8518b138483-1024x575.webp 1024w, https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/794466295c82d33d7d9db8518b138483-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/794466295c82d33d7d9db8518b138483-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/794466295c82d33d7d9db8518b138483-1536x863.webp 1536w, https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/794466295c82d33d7d9db8518b138483-1280x720.webp 1280w, https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/794466295c82d33d7d9db8518b138483.webp 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>This story was originally published by\u00a0<\/em>Inside Climate News\u00a0<em>and\u00a0is reproduced here as part of the\u00a0<\/em>Climate Desk\u00a0<em>collaboration.<\/em><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=462\">Humans Are Raiding Whales\u2019 Food Supply for Dietary Supplements and Animal Feed<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>James Hepp is<\/span> sick of excuses.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old farmer manages about 1,600 acres of corn, soy, and small grains in northern Iowa. He keeps a close eye on his bottom line and says he wants to build a business that his three young children would be foolish not to join. For Hepp, a first-generation farmer, that means doing things differently from his neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to preserve soil health, he tills only narrow strips of land, leaving much of his field undisturbed. Hepp also avoids applying nitrogen fertilizer when he\u2019s not growing crops.<\/p>\n<p>At first, Hepp\u2019s approach to farming focused on cutting costs. It let him make fewer passes with the tractor, saving money by using less diesel, herbicides, and fertilizer. The benefits for soil and water quality were a bonus.<\/p>\n<p>But after more than a decade of hearing government agencies and ag commodity groups in Iowa urge farmers to fall in line with the state\u2019s voluntary Nutrient Reduction Strategy and adopt conservation practices that could limit the nitrogen and phosphorus runoff fouling waterways, Hepp is fed up with inaction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, the Nutrient Reduction Strategy has been around for what, 13 years now?\u201d said Hepp, often held up as a role model for his runoff-reducing efforts. \u201cIf you\u2019re not doing it now, I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to make you do it besides regulation.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hepp represents one-third of the \u201cLobe Rangers,\u201d a trio of corn and soy growers in Iowa\u2019s flat and fertile Des Moines Lobe who have taken to social media to highlight the enormous gap between the conservation goals outlined in Iowa\u2019s strategy for nutrient loss and the actual adoption of conservation practices on cropland. Fifth-generation farmers Matthew Bormann and Zack Smith round out the squad.<\/p>\n<p>Bormann, Hepp and Smith are hardly the first Iowans to call for policies that target the environmental footprint of a relatively unregulated industry. Regulation has been a rallying cry in the last year for environmental groups, politicians and\u00a0citizens\u00a0who fear the state\u2019s poor water quality could be linked to its rising cancer rates.<\/p>\n<p>But as award-winning farmers and former county Farm Bureau board members who\u2019ve made a living growing thousands of acres of Iowa\u2019s two biggest commodity crops, Bormann, Hepp, and Smith represent a different demographic in the reform camp: industry insiders.<\/p>\n<p>In March, the men began posting short videos to Facebook demonstrating regenerative practices at work on their farms and calling for policy interventions to improve water quality. Their posts quickly gained traction on social media feeds across the state.<\/p>\n<p>As Iowa grapples with a worsening clean-water crisis fueled by agricultural pollution, the Lobe Rangers see themselves as proof that regulation won\u2019t herald the downfall of Iowa farmers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re doing this and it works,\u201d Hepp said. \u201cLike, what do you mean that you can\u2019t afford to do it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>Last year, <\/span>farmers in Iowa grew nearly 3 billion bushels of corn and 600 million bushels of soybeans. That\u2019s enough grain to fill over 7,000 miles of railcars, a train that could stretch from the US East to West coast twice over.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the large amounts of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer that farmers are applying in the state have unwanted consequences, often leaching off fields to fuel algal blooms or unsafe nitrate levels in the state\u2019s waterways before traveling south and harming the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, Iowa unveiled its Nutrient Reduction Strategy as a set of guidelines to stem the flow of chemicals from farmland into waterways and public drinking water sources. Since its inception, as in most agricultural states, the strategy has relied strictly on voluntary farm conservation efforts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>State programs and federal grants through the US Department of Agriculture offer financial incentives and technical support for farmers who adopt conservation practices, like planting cover crops or adding buffer strips along waterways on their farms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds and state Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig doubled down on those incentives in a\u00a0legislative package\u00a0revealed in early May, which includes an additional $52 million to expand on-farm conservation in central Iowa and $100 million for public water treatment infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Critics, including the Lobe Rangers, say the favored voluntary approach has done little to improve Iowa\u2019s water quality.\u00a0 \u201cPeople want clean water. If that\u2019s the case, we need to have policy that gives us a mathematical chance of that happening,\u201d said Smith, sheltering in his farm shop before a spring storm. \u201cWe don\u2019t have anything close to that right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scenarios outlined in the Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy in 2013 estimated that at least 60 percent of the state\u2019s cropland would need to be planted with cover crops in the off-season to meet the state\u2019s goal of 45 percent less nitrogen and phosphorus in major waterways by 2035. Yet last year, only about 17 percent of the state\u2019s corn and soy fields were planted with cover crops.<\/p>\n<p>That discrepancy isn\u2019t talked about enough, said Bormann, a former president of his county Farm Bureau and winner of a \u201cYoung Farmer Achievement Award\u201d from the Iowa Farm Bureau in 2013.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, it\u2019s easy to stick your head in the sand, because there\u2019s no consequences, you know,\u201d Bormann said. But Iowans must \u201cstart talking about it,\u201d he added. \u201cIt\u2019s just going to make agriculture better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>While the <\/span>Lobe Rangers\u2019 posts often spark conversations among farmers in the comments, they aren\u2019t trying to win over their peers, Hepp said.\u00a0<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=459\">Barney Frank, My Dad, and the Boston They Knew<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Instead, the men are running their social media campaign to target politicians, political candidates and the voting public.<\/p>\n<p>The three farmers think they are a valuable resource for lawmakers who fear hurting, or being accused of hurting, Iowa agriculture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not tree huggers. We\u2019re\u2026farmers and, you know, we\u2019re actually doing it. We\u2019re actually doing it to scale,\u201d Bormann said. \u201cWe can tell you what works, what doesn\u2019t, what it\u2019s actually going to take.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, many of the organizations that have historically drawn attention to Iowa\u2019s clean water crisis are \u201cleft-leaning groups\u201d that get discounted because of their political bent or advocacy history, Smith said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s really unfortunate, because it doesn\u2019t mean their ideas aren\u2019t good,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So when the Lobe Rangers penned an\u00a0op-ed in the Des Moines <em>Register<\/em>\u00a0in April, calling on state legislators to restore funding to a\u00a0water quality sensor network\u00a0that\u2019s relied on philanthropic grants since 2023, Smith thought the men needed to note their political affiliations: two Republicans and one independent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis sort of thing doesn\u2019t get said by Republicans,\u201d Smith said. \u201cEven if you think it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want [politicians] to know that there is a group of farmers that know we have a problem, and that there are solutions,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In their mission to connect with political candidates, they\u2019ve found common ground with Chris Jones, a career water scientist and Democrat running an underdog campaign for state secretary of agriculture. For years, Jones has been an unflinching advocate of regulatory fixes for nutrient pollution.<\/p>\n<p>His 28-point policy solution for cleaner water includes a ban on fall tillage of cropland, taxation or restrictions on the use of fertilizer and manure, and a requirement that rented farmland be planted with cover crops at the owner\u2019s expense.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is very important that we see that mainstream farmers can do it right,\u201d Jones told <em>Inside Climate News<\/em>. \u201cThese guys, they show that you can survive by doing different things.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jones regularly reposts the Lobe Rangers\u2019 videos to his campaign Facebook page. \u201cWhat they\u2019re doing could be perceived as somewhat radical,\u201d he said. \u201cFrom my perspective, it\u2019s not radical. It\u2019s common sense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>Though they<\/span> now have nearly 3,000 Facebook followers, none of the Lobe Rangers are particularly keen influencers. They\u2019ve sought video-editing help from Smith\u2019s college-aged daughters and developed their logo (a sort of Zorro and Lone Ranger hybrid, standing among stalks of corn with his sword drawn) using AI.<\/p>\n<p>But the men aren\u2019t entirely new to being spokesmen for the agricultural industry.<\/p>\n<p>Each has been the subject of glowing profiles about their use of regenerative practices, written and shared by trade groups such as the Iowa Corn Growers Association and the Iowa Farm Bureau.<\/p>\n<p>When industry leaders highlight the conservation efforts of just one or two farmers, it sends the wrong message about the reality of Iowa agriculture, Bormann said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a PR thing where it makes it sound like Iowa farmers are doing such practices,\u201d Bormann said. \u201cAnd the truth is, they\u2019re not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just last year, Hepp received the Iowa Farm Bureau\u2019s Young Farmer Leadership award. Now, his relationship with the group, which favors the current voluntary nutrient-pollution efforts, has cooled off. \u201cWe\u2019ve kind of got our heads on the chopping block,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In an email to <em>Inside Climate News<\/em>, the Iowa Farm Bureau affirmed its ongoing support for Hepp.<\/p>\n<p>The group invited him to upcoming farm bureau meetings and a July economic summit, a spokesperson wrote. And last summer, farm bureau staff attended a conservation field day on Hepp\u2019s farm \u201cin support of his efforts.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe value the opportunity to share a range of perspectives and practices that help farmers learn from one another,\u201d the organization wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Many farmers in Iowa\u2019s aging agricultural economy are fearful of change, Hepp said. Adopting conservation practices is tantamount to admitting you were wrong.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=456\">The Key to Fighting a Trump Real Estate Deal: Democracy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/article>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFrom my perspective, it\u2019s not radical. 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