Misinformation about food and farming that gets shared on Facebook, Twitter and other social media channels threatens gains in agriculture, the leader of Iowa's largest ag group said Wednesday. "It seems that people who don’t farm and don’t understand farming have plenty of opinions about how we, as farmers, should be farming," Craig Hill, president of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, told about 1,000 farmers Wednesday."This new threat that’s emerged is one that places limits on our progress," Hill said during the group's annual meeting in Des Moines.Hill said after his speech he's concerned about people who don't use "a lot of science or education," spreading messages that "prey on people's fears."
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