we spoke to medium sized farmer ron maresden in eliot, western iowa, to hear about life as an iowa pig farmer. i was supposed to be sitting at your kitchen table with you to do this interview not through your laptop on your kitchen table. the weather in iowa these few days has been quite extraordinary. what is it likely you are? it is brutal, honestly. welcome to iowa. that is the best way to describe it although i would even say that right now it has gone a little extra above and beyond. we have got wind in excess of 35 miles an hour and a couple of bitter cold temperatures and we had about nine, ten, 11 inches of fresh snow on the last three or four days. so not only other road is impossible but you cannot see you are going. so i am grateful that you did not come out here because you may have wound up stuck out here