Robert Leonard

1 week ago | kansascity.com | Robert Leonard |Matt Russell

Arlyn Kauffman was grinding feed for 20,000 layer hens when we pulled up to his farm south of Osceola, Iowa. "I didn't realize it would be so big," said Bob, a coauthor of this column, about the 500-foot-long building, nearly the length of two football fields. He'd shown up with a set of assumptions that Arlyn's production system was going to look more like the idyllic family farm with a red barn and livestock roaming free.