Legislator says new plate would be great for promoting agriculture

The top republican in the legislature wants to create “traveling billboards” to promote agriculture. House Speaker Brent Siegrist of Council Bluffs wants to create a new “specialty” license plate.”Specialty” license plates cost 35-bucks extra, plus the yearly renewal fee is 10-dollars more than the regular rate. Siegrist would use the extra cash generated from the sale of the “agriculture” license plates to promote ethanol and soy-diesel. He says it’s another thing that can be used to help promote Iowa’s value added products.Siegrist says the license plates would be “traveling billboards” promoting Iowa’s agricultural lifestyle.