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State councils provide additional challenge

Missouri Farm Bureau president Blake Hurst

State councils for HSUS (the Humane Society of the United States) have been popping up in agricultural states around the country.  Missouri Farm Bureau president Blake Hurst says these councils present another challenge for the nation’s livestock producers.  “We in agriculture are used to working together,” he says.  “We’re used to basically agreeing on most things.  Now there are people who are willing to publicize and fund differences amongst farmers.  It’s a very difficult thing.”

Indiana is considered an agriculture friendly state.  But, Hurst tells Brownfield so is Missouri – and it didn’t stop HSUS.

He says agriculture learned a few things over the course of its fight against HSUS.  “You can’t be successful unless everyone works together,” he says. “By that I mean the commodity groups, Farm Bureau, Protect the Harvest.  Every organization has to work together.  You have to look to allies where you can find them.”

The combination of diverse and strong coalitions and communication between the groups, he says are the keys to success.

Hurst spoke at a Protect the Harvest Meet and Greet with Indiana’s legislature last week at the Statehouse.

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