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Hurst: This will have to be a much different farm bill

Missouri Farm Bureau President Blake Hurst tells Brownfield the farm prosperity that accompanied the 2014 Farm Bill is no longer there.
Hurst is leading 85 members of the state organization on their annual Washington, D.C. visit, talking to lawmakers about the next farm bill.

“As we look at this farm bill, the 2018 farm bill is beginning to be examined, talked about, debated; farmers are in much worse economic condition than they were four years ago,” Hurst told Brownfield Ag News from Washington, D.C.  “It’s going to take a different kind of farm bill to provide our safety net that we need so desperately.”

Hurst says it’s important that elected officials hear from people they represent, but also that Missouri Farm Bureau members are able to see that governing is not easy.

“So if they kind of a feel for that, then they have, I think, more understanding why we don’t always get everything we want, why we have to work very hard and why their participation is so important to get the things that we do get,” he said.

Hurst says it’s exciting to be in the nation’s capital during Ag Secretary Nominee Sonny Perdue’s confirmation hearing, but he says the overflow gallery is likely as close as they’ll get.

AUDIO: Blake Hurst (6 min. MP3)

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