In Fredericksburg, Iowa, Kyle Wendland stepped away from his engineering degree two decades ago to follow his father – not just into farming corn, but into a world of debt, grit, and stubborn faith he could wrest a living from Iowa’s soil.
He calls his place Comeback Farms, after his family nearly lost the land in the 1980s farm crisis.
This summer, with bills mounting and a farm economy in recession, he led a team through the sweltering Midwest, scouting fields and sizing up what President Donald Trump's administration said would be the biggest corn crop in U.S. history – a bounty that has helped keep prices at multi-year lows.
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