For Amy Sinclair, Republican candidate for District 14 of the Iowa Senate, one of the most locally important issues is agriculture, because agriculture affects many things, including the economy.

Sinclair gave the example of when the country “fell off the edge of a cliff” in the downturn of the economy a few years ago.

“Iowa didn’t, and it didn’t because of agriculture,” Sinclair said. “Long and the short of it, agriculture kept Iowa from being in the mess the rest of the nation was. As a senator, we need to make sure we have policies and regulatory practices that don’t inhibit that as our economic base.”