Articles by Blake Hurst

Merry Christmas! Yes, I know I’m a few days late, but it’s been that kind of year. Everything has been late.

I think there is a fairly large contingent of journalists covering climate or agriculture or both who think we could stop climate change with a single admission by a major farm organization that the only logical reaction to increasing atmospheric carbon is abject terror.

Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue has announced plans to move the Economic Research Service and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture from their present homes in Washington, D.C., to somewhere, anywhere else but Washington.

The French grocery chain Carrefour has announced that they will be using blockchain technology to provide complete traceability for the products they sell.

The national media spent the last year sending reporters out to the middle of the country, trying to figure out what makes us tick.

The kids get on the bus every morning at 6:05. That’s because their bus ride in the tiny Alton school district in Oregon County, Missouri is an hour and a half long. 

“And wouldn't it be nice to live together, in the kind of world where we belong” -The Beach Boys.  Suzy Friedman, of the Environmental Defense Fund, has channeled the Beach Boys in her recent opinion piece in Agri-Pulse, writing a sincere and attractive description of the kind of world where we belong, and yes, it would be nice.

Thoughts on the Secretary of Agriculture needed to lead USDA in a Trump administration