VIDEO: Pork Chops! Politics! The Free Press Goes to the Iowa State Fair.

I do not have terribly agrarian instincts. My primary interest as a kid was musical theater; I think the closest I have come to cultivating anything was when I was briefly the owner of a Chia Pet. 

But this past weekend, I spent my time surrounded by a radically different type of human: people who, it would seem, have bent the land—or at least some anima…