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Amour at a Mall Two Iowans Tie the Knot Where They Met a Year Ago — on a Shopping Trip AMOUR AT A MALL TWO IOWANS TIE THE KNOT WHERE THEY MET A YEAR AGO — ON A SHOPPING TRIP. METRO & IOWA, 3A harvest of CHANGE IOWA FARM FAMILIES CONFRONT A NATION IN TRANSITION MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014 | THE NEWS IOWA DEPENDS UPON | DESMOINESREGISTER.COM | METRO EDITION A GANNETT COMPANY h a r v e s t o f CHANGE Bradshaw IOWA FARM FAMILIES CONFRONT A NATION IN TRANSITION expects greater use of h a r v e s t o f CHANGE cameras IOWA FARM FAMILIES CONFRONT A NATION IN TRANSITION But outfitting all officers and storing video is expensive. By Regina Zilbermints [email protected] Outgoing Des Moines Police Chief Judy Brad- shaw expects to see the department’s officers equipped with body cam- eras and other improve- ments in law enforcement technology, a develop- ment she believes will be both a benefit for police and a challenge. The cameras, which are being worn by in- creasing numbers of law enforcement officers na- tionwide, have drawn praise from the public who say the body cameras CHRISTOPHER GANNON/REGISTER PHOTOS hold officers accountable. Jayden Dammann waits for a tractor ride while his father, Justin, visits with others on the family farm in rural Page County in July. Justin says he feels Leaders in law enforce- confident about the management of the family farm one day passing on to Jayden. ment say the cameras help officials when they handle complaints. Bradshaw and other lo- cal officials said they would like to have the cameras. But equipping Iowa’s largest police department ROOTS AT RISK with the devices requires a large and ongoing finan- cial investment during a EVEN A SOLID, CENTURY-OLD OPERATION FACES CHALLENGES, UNCERTAINTY time of tight budgets. In- creased use of the cam- By Sharyn Jackson | [email protected] eras also requires discus- sions about how video would be stored and when n the lawn of a ranch house abutting rolling acres of emerald pasture, a the cameras would be ac- red-haired girl, almost 7, leads a calf in circles with the help of her family. tivated. “The issue with cam- It’s early July, and Jillian Dammann is getting ready to show her bottle eras isn’t whether or not calf, Olaf, at the Page County Fair. Her parents, Justin and Jennifer, are you support them, for any O chief of police or sheriff, teaching her how to lead him, and her little brother, Jayden, is helping. it’s really the budget and Named after a character in Disney’s “Frozen,” this calf from the Dammanns’ live- the cost,” Bradshaw told stock breeding operation lost its source of sustenance when its mother died. So Jillian See POLICE, Page 13A helps rear it, feeding Olaf milk from a bottle that’s bigger than the pink cowboy boots she wears, here in the southwest Iowa county where Jessie Field Shambaugh founded 4-H clubs more than a century ago. VIDEO ONLINE Jillian is currently one of two possible heirs to a business that’s been in her family See this story at DesMoinesRegister.com to for five previous generations. Her training with Olaf is more than an extracurricular hear Des Moines Police Chief activity; it’s an investment in the legacy of this family and the future of this farm, this Judy Bradshaw talk about county and this country. several subjects, including moving up the ranks of the For the family to continue its legacy, it will need to navigate the subtle but sweep- department. ing forces of change that are transforming America and its place in the world. See DAMMANNS, Page 8A Many laid off FIVE-PART SERIES INSIDE still jobless The Register examines how the de- » The Dammanns: The roots of this mographic, technological and eco- family farm extend six generations. More than 20 percent nomic changes that are transforming » The other farms: One is owned by of Americans laid off in America are playing out in the lives of an immigrant just starting out. One is the past five years are four Iowa farm families. still unemployed, a sur- converting to organic. Another raises vey released today says, DIGITAL EXPERIENCE chemical-free produce and livestock. underscoring that despite » Oculus Rift: Learn about the virtual a recent sharp drop in This project includes an innovative reality headset that allows touring the long-term unemploy- 3-D experience and a 2-D option. ment, many people out of Dammann farm in an immersive, 3-D Learn more at DesMoinesRegis- work at least six months Justin Dammann cuts hay in a field on the family’s Page experience that’s a journalism first. are still struggling. ter.com/HarvestofChange. County farm in July. USA TODAY, Page 5B D A I L Y High 72° Low 53° Index Your 2 Cents ...... 2A Obituaries ........ 14A Sports ................... 1C $1.00 Good Morning.... 2A Sunny. Metro & Iowa.... 3A Opinion............. 15A Iowa Life.............. 1E See Page 2 Page 5A Birthdays .............. 2A Around Iowa ..... 7A Business ............ 16A Comics............ 4E-5E for pricing details A B C DM-9000443573 harvest of CHANGE IOWA FARM FAMILIES CONFRONT A NATION IN TRANSITION Page 8A | Monday, September 22, 2014 Metro Edition | DesMoinesRegister.com | The Des Moines Register h a r v e s t o f CHANGE IOWA FARM FAMILIES CONFRONT A NATION IN TRANSITION HUGE FORCES TRANSFORM U.S. By Sharyn Jackson She attends private school because her One example of how far-flung events [email protected] parents don’t know whether the public affect Iowa farmers: Conversations about schoolh will a rstill v be e saround t o by f the CHANGE time she establishing a kosher beef trade between he Dammann family in south- graduates. Iowa and Israel stopped earlier this sum- west Iowa, like millionsIOWA of oth- FARM» TheFAMILIES country is CONFRONT en route to becoming A NATION IN TRANSITIONmer when turmoil between Israel and Ha- ers across the country, finds it- majority nonwhite. Whites made up 85 mas in Gaza flared up, said Bill Northey, Iowa’s agriculture secretary. self navigating a changing percent of Americans in 1960 but are pro- 100 America while remaining jected to drop to 42 percent in 2060. The PHOTOS » The specter of climate change Trooted in what came before. change is driven by immigration, higher threatens an altered environment. Re- Iowa farming fertility rates among new arrivals and cent droughts and floods offer vivid re- Consider some of the forces at work: since 1930 at their children, and more marriages be- minders that the environment appears in- » America is aging. By 2060, those 65 DesMoines tween people of different racial and eth- creasingly fragile. and over are projected for the first time to Register.com/ nic groups. In Iowa, flooding in 2008 submerged outnumber those under 18, raising deep Harvestof The increase in racial and ethnic diver- 1,300 blocks in Cedar Rapids, Iowa’s sec- questions about the size of the labor force Change1. and how families will care for their el- sity has come more slowly to Iowa, which ond-largest city, damaged 22 major build- ders. Meanwhile, school districts will was 89 percent white as of the 2010 cen- ings on the University of Iowa campus merge and be hard-pressed to maintain sus. But the foreign-born population has and caused up to $3 billion in losses to ag- services to younger generations that are a risen exponentially in counties with meat- riculture, including crops and equipment. smaller slice of the overall population. packing plants, which have increasingly Weather records have piled up almost Two members of the four farm families relied on immigrant labor. yearly since: Flooding returned to much highlighted in this project represent op- Crawford County, for instance, home of the state in 2010, and to the Missouri posite ends of the age shift, and show how to several meat-processing operations, is River basin, on the state’s western edge, it has changed childhood in rural Ameri- now more than a quarter Hispanic. In the in 2011. Nature seesawed the other way in ca. Denison school district last year, Craw- 2012, when drought parched Iowa and the Don Wimmer, who turned 88 this sum- ford County’s largest, more than half the Midwest. In 2013, Iowa saw its wettest mer, came of age in southwest Iowa at a students had limited English proficiency. spring, and this year, 24 of Iowa’s 99 coun- time when children attended the local » Local businesses are more connected ties became presidentially declared di- schoolhouse, multiple businesses catered to the global economy. Aided by the tech- saster areas after heavy rain, wind, hail to his town’s population, and a future on nological advances of the digital age, and tornadoes in June and July. the family farm seemed bright for him globalization of industry in a hypercon- Those extremes could signal climate and his peers. nected world reduces the clout of owners change or merely weather volatility. But Jillian Dammann turned 7 this summer and workers in charting their own desti- they combine with fundamental demo- in a county that, in terms of population, is nies, while influencing how even the most graphic and economic shifts to heighten in the top quarter of the oldest in America. isolated farmers run their operations. unease about the future. CHRISTOPHER GANNON/THE REGISTER With help from her dad, Justin Dammann, and brother, Jayden, Jillian Dammann leads Olaf, her bottle calf, as Justin’s wife, Jennifer, looks on at the family’s farm near Essex in rural Page County. Iowa farm families like this one are grappling with immense societal changes that will put a new face on the nation over the next century.
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