Growing up on a family farm in West Bend, Iowa, Haley Banwart and her brother were like other farm kids. They did chores, participated in 4-H , and even raised cattle together. “My brother and I have had the same amount of responsibilities. I can drive a tractor, I can bale square hay,” Banwart says. “But it was just expected that my brother would return home.” She says they never discussed it, she just accepted that she’d find a different path. “It was always kind of the unwritten rule that my brother would go back and farm,” she says. Haley’s brother, Jack, is four years younger. She has a degree in agricultural communications and journalism from Iowa State University and a job at the Coalition to Support Iowa’s Farmers . Her brother will start college in the fall. The farm he returns to in four years will have high-tech machinery, and he’ll rely on and benefit from scientific advances and a constant barrage of data and information. Farms look different in many ways than they did
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