Blake Hurst

I started the month with a quick trip north for the Minnesota Farmfest. I had a great time as I walked the rows of shiny new machinery. Farm shows are where hopes are born

At a time when unease about the environment, climate change, and "sustainability" is at a peak, this enterprise canÀt help but raise a red flag.

TodayPs agriculture is a foreign and frightening place to the consumers who eat what farmers produce, but donPt trust the producers of that food any further than they could throw a grass-fed steer.

The 15-person dietary guidelines committee recently published their report and what they said and did not say might surprise you

In his recent declaration of war on my farm and thousands like it, and yes, those were his words, New York Times recipe-trader-in-chief and food columnist Mark Bittman contrasted the kind of @industrial@ agriculture practiced in the U.S. with peasant agricul