Brian Gongol

The state of Iowa really needs to stop trying to pick winners with economic-development incentives

A huge number of new threats to the economics of farming are making things more uncertain than they have been in some time. Will China stop importing food? Are too many farmers borrowing too much money to buy land? Are the wrong people buying land and running up prices?

The USDA says it's good enough to cook whole pork cuts to 145°F and let them sit for 3 minutes -- no more cooking to an internal temperature of 160°.

It's likely to be a very similar figure in the United States. Those kinds of people aren't going to find good jobs if they don't find useful knowledge or skills.