Congressman Leonard Boswell grew up on a farm in rural Iowa and returned to the state to farm after his 20-year military career. He successfully led his local farmer's co-op through the farm crisis of the 1980s as its chair. Today, Boswell is guided by the same values and common sense he learned as a farmer.

Boswell is an outspoken advocate for agriculture as one of only a handful of farmers in Congress and a proven leader on the House Agriculture Committee. As a senior member of the committee, he helped craft the 2008 farm bill, which made historic investments in conservation, nutrition, fruit and vegetable production, and renewable energy, while maintaining to the state to gather infromation from Iowa's farmers as they prepare to write the next farm bill and ensuring that Iowa has a critical role in its drafting.

During his tenure in Congress and on the Agriculture Committee, Boswell has fought for increased market transparency, expanding renewable energy production, increasing value-added agricultural markets, keeping marginal land out of agricultural production, increased working lands conservation programs, and to keep a real safety net for our nation’s producers.

Congressman Boswell chairs the General Farm Commodities and Risk Management Subcommittee and serves on the Livestock, Dairy & Poultry Subcommittee