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Missouri Farm Bureau policy addresses rural broadband
Missouri Farm Bureau delegates approved policy to get rural residents connected. Farm Bureau policy in Missouri addresses low farm income and the need for Washington lawmakers to complete the farm bill, but it also addresses the lack of broadband access in rural Missouri.
“Sixty percent of rural Missourians don’t have adequate coverage,” said Blake Hurst, president of the Missouri Farm Bureau, adding that Missouri ranks near the bottom among states for broadband connectivity.
“As we started down this road several years ago, our motto has been rural Missouri should not have to settle for less than our friends and neighbors that live in the city,” Hurst told Brownfield Ag News as policy setting was finalized Tuesday. “So that’s what we’re working on and we’re going to get it done.”
Policy recommends upload and download speeds that Hurst says allow work to be done and videos to be streamed.
Hurst was re-elected president for another two-year term.
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