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Hurst says historic flooding a tragedy
Missouri Farm Bureau President Blake Hurst says it’s been a couple of very hard years in agriculture and the historic flooding this spring, not only in Missouri but Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska, has been a huge problem, “In Missouri a million acres, a space larger than the state of Rhode Island, has been under water – I have friends and neighbors have not been able to get to their house since March 11th.”
Hurst farms in northwest Missouri. Recent rains have brought more flooding to his area, “Just in the last few days they closed I-29 again, the main north/south thoroughfare in our part of the world. It IS a tragedy.”
Hurst says news media attention seems to have drifted away from the tragedy of the flooding.
Hurst made his comments at the Ag Outlook Forum in Kansas City (Monday), as he introduced Governor Mike Parson, a farmer who Hurst says understands what agriculture is going through.
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