The Ethanol Kingpin of Iowa
Drilled
Pushkin Industries
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Bruce's venture in Brazil isn't the first time he tried to go global. What an earlier attempt tells us about him, his business, and what's ahead for both Iowa and "the Brazilian Midwest."
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
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| 0:30.8 | Thank you. Trans, available wherever you get your podcasts. Cast your minds back to the fall of 2011. |
| 0:37.4 | If you were on a college campus anywhere in the country, |
| 0:40.3 | you were probably hearing something like this. |
| 0:43.4 | Wall Street, Scot-Cow, Wall Street! |
| 0:47.4 | You want police plaza! You want police plaza! March at 5.30. We march at 530. We march at 530. |
| 1:01.5 | We want to see everyone there. We want to see everyone there. |
| 1:10.6 | Occupy Wall Street protest weren't just happening on Wall Street or in New York. |
| 1:15.3 | They exploded everywhere. |
| 1:17.2 | People were taking to the streets to protest economic inequality. |
| 1:21.5 | At Iowa State University, student protesters began to focus on one particular example of corporate greed by one of the university's |
| 1:29.6 | board members. |
| 1:31.2 | Bruce Rastratter is not a stranger in Iowa. |
| 1:34.5 | That's a name that people who are involved in ag and food systems are very familiar with already. |
| 1:41.4 | And we were quite concerned about the involvement of our institution in what seemed |
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