Liz Garst

By Bill BriggsIt’s an idyllic swath of Western Iowa, a patchwork of lush farmland, hillside terraces, grassed waterways, and trees favored by Monarch butterflies. Here, a maverick seed salesman once fed the roots of modern American farming, then fed lunch to visiting Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. And here, the first sprouts of a new ag