In Re the Marriage of Cossel

SACKETT, Judge.

This appeal addresses the issue of fixing the child support obligation of a self-employed Iowa grain and livestock farmer.

Petitioner-appellant Gary Lee Cossel and respondent-appellee and cross-appellant Shari Ann Cossel were married in August of 1988. They have one child, a daughter who was two years old at the time of the hearing on the dissolution petition.

Gary is twenty-eight years old and in good health. He is the father of two older children. The decree dissolving Gary’s first marriage ordered Gary to pay $3,200 a year in child support for two children. He pays only $2,000…