Thicke to Tour Iowa Farmers' Markets
Francis Thicke to attend Farmers Markets in Iowa City and DavenportFAIRFIELD – Francis Thicke, candidate for Iowa Secretary of Agriculture, will campaign at two Farmers Markets in eastern Iowa on Saturday before attending the Clinton County Democratic Hall of Fame dinner in Welton on Saturday evening.
He will begin the day in Iowa City at the Farmers Market located at 220 S. Gilbert St., where he will greet voters from Johnson County . Thicke will then go to Davenport to visit the Freighthouse Farmers Market at 421 West River Drive . He is then scheduled to arrive at Welton by 5:30 p.m. for the social hour and dinner sponsored by the Clinton County Democratic Central Committee.
“We need to produce more of the food we eat right here in Iowa on Iowa farms to enhance our economy, our food security and environment,” says Thicke. “Locally produced food can be fresher, safer, and it puts more money into the pockets of Iowa ’s farmers,” says Thicke. “We also need to break up corporate monopolies that are stealing profits from farmers and to restore competition and free markets for Iowa ’s agricultural products,” he says.
~Francis Thicke
holds a Ph.D. in agronomy and has served in the U. S. Department of
Agriculture in Washington, D. C. as National Program Leader in Soil
Science. He received the Spencer Award for Sustainable Agriculture in
2009 from the Leopold Center at Iowa State University. He is also a
recipient of the Steward of the Land Award presented by the Iowa Chapter
of the Sierra Club.
See BFIA's four-part interview of Francis Thicke,
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IV and our analysis of the race for Secretary of Agriculture. Check out
his website at ThickeForAgriculture.com.
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