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Dooley running for Iowa Agriculture Secretary position 2026

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A series of voting booths are shown at an early voting satellite site in Sioux City, Iowa, on October 23, 2024. (Bret Hayworth, Siouxland Public Media News)
A series of voting booths are shown at an early voting satellite site in Sioux City, Iowa, on October 23, 2024. (Bret Hayworth, Siouxland Public Media News)

Iowa farmer Wade Dooley has announced he is running to be the Iowa Secretary of Agriculture.

Dooley is a Democrat who operates a farm near Marshalltown that has been in his family for six generations.

Dooley on Tuesday said he is focused on looking for new ways to spur profitable farming operations and to improve land quality, through such initiatives as restoring prairie along the Iowa River.

The current Iowa Agriculture Secretary is Mike Naig, a Republican, who has been elected to terms in 2018 and 2022. He is running for re-election, and the contest will be decided by voters in November.


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Bret Hayworth is a native of Northwest Iowa and graduate of the University of Northern Iowa with nearly 30 years working as an award-winning journalist. He enjoys conversing with people to tell the stories about Siouxland that inform, entertain, and expand the mind, both daily in SPM newscasts and on the weekly show What's The Frequency.
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