58 Time September 23, 2019
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Senator turned presidential candidate tours a beef-and-produce farm
in south- central Iowa on Aug. 11, a crouching campaign aide carefully
walks a few feet ahead, pointing out the cow droppings littering the grass.
The farmer strolling next to Harris, a bespectacled 49-year-old named
Matt Russell, wants to talk about climate change. “Farmers and rural
Americans, that’s who’s going to solve this,” Russell says to Harris as the
two stroll accompanied by a bevy of cameras in front of his red barn. “We
have the land for renewable energy, and we have the farming systems to2050:
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