Blake Hurst is a Missouri farmer and writer who contributed articles to The Weekly Standard on agriculture, rural life, and food policy. His pieces for the magazine covered topics including GMO labeling, farming practices, and the economics of rural America. He is known for his defense of conventional agriculture and has written widely on the disconnect between urban perceptions and farming realities.
In July, Vermont will become the first state to require that food made with GMOs (genetically modified organisms) be labeled. This presents an interesting challenge for food companies, who will either have to segregate and label products headed toward the Green Mountain State, label everything they…
‘It was $5, right?” I was at a convenience store in northern Missouri, filling up with gas, and the guy next to me was checking his gas budget with the lady in the passenger seat of his car. He was driving what might be the last K-car on the road. He noticed that I had overheard their conversation…
I'm a dodo bird. Or maybe a passenger pigeon. As a corn and soybean farmer, a chemical spraying, fertilizer spreading, genetically modified-seed planter, I’m as passé as a phone booth. I may be walking around, but I’m actually dead. I’m a zombie farmer.
Tarkio, Mo.
The Grocery Manufacturers Association is hosting a Washington, D.C. summit tomorrow, July 10, inviting over 300 companies to discuss the labeling of genetically modified foods. The meeting is in response to attempts on a state by state basis to require labeling of foods with genetically modified…
Tarkio, Missouri
New Year's Day marked the fiftieth anniversary of Castro's takeover in Cuba. From political prisons to firing squads to Russian missiles, his regime has been a disaster. Yet today people hold up the Cuban food system as a model for the rest of the world.