We Can Do Better brings together the writings of Iowa farmer, conservationist, and policymaker Paul Johnson (1941-2021). As a state legislator, state and national agency leader, and champion of private lands conservation, Johnson was a prominent figure in the sustainable agriculture movement for more than three decades. Agriculture, he held, "involves more than food and fiber and fuel. It's the care of all life." In his public and private life, he pursued that vision through pragmatic steps to bring farming and conservation together.