I recently read an article by Aaron Putze of the Coalition to Support Iowa's Farmers called "Modern, Innovative Farms are also Family Farms" I found this article on the Animal Agriculture Alliance website, at http://www.animalagalliance.com/.

The article talked about how society "thinks" all farmers and farms should remain as they were in the 1950's and 1960's. Aaron goes on to say this is an unfair and unrealistic expectation. For farms to remain viable, they must modernize and use the technology available to keep their family farms strong and capable of bringing the next generation back to the farm.

There are many commercials on TV today that portray farmers wearing overalls and straw hats while using farming practices of the 50's and 60's. Because of these false images portrayed by the media, our consumers believe this is the only way a farmer should farm. What they aren't showing on TV is how much it costs to produce our commodities and how few acres we have in production agriculture today.

It's time to change the face of agriculture and let our media outlets know family farmers and ranchers use modern technology to responsibly produce a safe product for our consumers.