With the incoming Biden administration there are questions about whether the USDA’s Economic Research Service and National Institutes of Food & Agriculture move to Kansas City will be reversed.
Missouri Farm Bureau President Blake Hurst, on a Kansas City Agricultural Business Council panel, says he hopes not. He says it was a good idea to move those research agencies to Kansas City and a change of personnel can sometimes be a good thing, “I would hope that this is sort of an experiment and they would let it play out and see how it works.