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Farm and Food: Organic farm rules need to be reviewed soon, not slowly rewritten By Alan Guebert Nearly everything about Francis and Susan Thicke’s southeastern Iowa, organic dairy farm whispers bucolic: a herd of Jersey cows and calves graze on rolling acres of green pastures amid fenced farm fields and acres and acres of tree-thick woods. Even the farm’s name, Radiance Dairy, relays an easy calm. But there’s nothing calm about the food fight the Thickes (pronounced tick-ee) and their or...