Articles by Blake Hurst
- When Saving Is a Problem Not a Virtue Thursday, April 18, 2013
- The Obama administration’s proposed limits on ‘reasonable’ retirement savings would penalize success and patience in favor of the nebulous concept of fairness.
- The Next Real Estate Bubble: Farmland Friday, March 29, 2013
- Farmers have been taking on mounting debt, creating an unsustainable increase in land prices and risking a crash that would ripple through our economy.
- Organic Illusions Monday, October 1, 2012
- We don’t have enough land and we can’t afford the opportunity costs of a return to a romantic version of agriculture. But we can afford a food system that ...
- Raining Nonsense during a Drought Tuesday, August 21, 2012
- The only conclusion to draw from a year like this one is that Mother Nature is not always kind.
- The High, High Cost of Low, Low Rates Saturday, August 4, 2012
- Monetary easing combined with a promise to increase both nominal GDP growth and interest rates would jump-start this stagnant economy.
- And the Regulatory State Drones On Wednesday, July 11, 2012
- Forget the kerfuffle over EPA drone flights; nobody pays attention to the things that the EPA is doing that are truly frightening.
- The Forgotten Man of the Tax Debate Thursday, February 9, 2012
- Obama, Romney, and Buffett, listen up. In all the bickering over incentives and tax fairness, there has been little mention of the thing that matters most of ...
- An Imaginary Dustup? The Incalculable Harm of Regulation Sunday, January 8, 2012
- Why surveys cannot begin to capture the cumulative damage of regulations. It’s not aggie paranoia or ‘right-wing nuttery.’
- Why I’m ‘Ginned Up’ about Regulation Wednesday, September 7, 2011
- President Obama seems to be unaware of any regulations that would concern farmers and equally ill-informed as to the source of those regulations.
- A Big, Muddy Project Alright Wednesday, June 1, 2011
- Floods are inexorable, and inevitable, but they’ve got nothing on environmentalists. Farmers and families who live along the Mississippi should prepare ...
- Our Real Food Problem Saturday, January 22, 2011
- We don’t have a food system problem, but a problem of self-control. We can’t solve that with quinoa or locally grown, free-range chicken.
- The 21st-Century Land Rush Wednesday, September 22, 2010
- The move toward securing farmland in faraway places can be seen not only as a bet on increasing food prices, but also as a hedge against a breakdown in world ...
- The Sweet 'n Lowdown on GM Crops Thursday, August 19, 2010
- Farmers should be allowed to continue growing genetically modified sugar beets despite a recent flawed court decision.
- No Butz About It Saturday, July 17, 2010
- How a long-ago Secretary of Agriculture became the demon of industrial food critics; and how those critics get the last half-century of agricultural history ...
- Green Menace Tuesday, July 6, 2010
- To saddle hungry Haitians with American romanticism about agriculture is the worst kind of imperialism.
- ‘The First White Farmer Had Been Murdered’ Thursday, April 15, 2010
- An eyewitness account of Zimbabwe’s collapse.
- Give Thanks for This Harvest Wednesday, November 25, 2009
- Nobody but we farmers celebrates a great crop like this one. The rest of America should celebrate, and be grateful for the abundance that agriculture provides.
- The Omnivore’s Delusion: Against the Agri-intellectuals Thursday, July 30, 2009
- Farming has always been messy and painful, and bloody and dirty. It still is. This is something the critics of industrial farming never seem to understand.