09/25/25 Afternoon CommStock Report – For Better or Worse

Part 2 My life Experience with Iowa Water Quality:   Bloomberg Businessweek recently published a scathing article criticizing Iowa water quality and related issues of public health that woke some people up. The people that I am referring to are those that defend us that we are in grave danger of irretrievably losing the public narrative to groups and interests that would use false premises in order to regulate us out of business. One result is that Des Moines residents believe a lot of things about Iowa Agriculture that have been distorted and is not true. The Bloomberg article was as if every critic of crop and livestock Agriculture in our state had the opportunity to come together to have their opinions published by a major media concern in this article. Statistically, it is their claim that Iowa has less than desired water quality and a high cancer rate. Are the numbers accurate? I will share my perspective. Why so little/no public response from regulators whose job it is to monitor and safeguard such risks? They have been remiss in not weighing in with facts. State regulators will tell, off the record, that the critics are inaccurate but that doesn’t…