Illinois farmer Kurt Wilke spent nine years fighting the government’s insistence there was a wetland on his family’s farm. He won four hearings, battled five years of litigation and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars—all to get the result that there were indeed no wetlands on his farm. Illinois Farm Bureau says the story is representative of other farmers’ struggles and why it supports AFBF’s call for reform. See Wilke’s story here. (FarmWeekNow)