The Entire State of Iowa covered in Concrete

175 Acres of land disappears every HOUR in the United States, lost to development never to be regained.  This equates to 1.5 million acres a year!  Listen up folks this is alarming.  The amount of land lost over the last 20 years is like covering the entire state of Iowa in concrete.

It might be the ultimate convenience to have a Starbuck's, grocery store, gas station, apartment buildings and shopping centers on every corner but how necessary is this?  The answer is: it is NOT!  This is not a do over, destruction of our land is permanent.

Only 1% of the population now farms or raises livestock.  We are in the minority and we are fighting a war to stay alive, keep our land intact and feed America.  We can't do this alone, we need your help to raise awareness concerning over-development.  The alarming fact is that we are losing farmland 2X as fast as we ever have before, this is simply unsustainable.  The worst part of this story is that we are losing the "BEST" land for crops and grazing because the best land is in the same areas that have been developed as cities, cities that just keep bloating out of their boundaries into larger and larger behemoths! 

This is not an isolated event, it is happening everywhere and this loss is becoming very alarming.  If this constant development continues we will have a full-blown food crisis on our hands in the near future.  The mathematics just don't jive.  We cannot continually grow our population and slash our land for food production at the same time and believe we won't have a crisis.

Wake up America!  This is real and you should care.  As a member of the 1% I can say none of us do this for the money.  It is a real struggle to survive as a farmer or a rancher but we doggedly keep at it because we are passionate about the land, our animals and the people we feed! Despite all of our passion we cannot survive without your help.  Say "no" to more development.  Support your local farmer and rancher.  We need you to care.

Summer is the perfect time to enjoy the fruits of what we produce during this beautiful growing season.  Visit your local farmer's market and say "YES" to land protection.

Bon Appetit!