Category: Rural Minnesota Radio

  Market forces in small rural communities almost guarantee that it will cost more to build a new starter home there than young families can afford, says the Center’s research associate Kelly Asche. Discussing his new report on the housing shortage, Kelly tells how some public-private partnerships are making it happen in places like St. ...

  Kelly Asche, research associate at the Center, has just completed an article that gets to the heart of the question of why it’s so hard to get housing built in rural Minnesota. While rural communities recruit workers to alleviate the workforce shortage, they find they don’t have the appropriate housing for workers they would ...

  We meet this week with Rep. Joe Schomacker of Luverne to talk about where we’re at the legislature in the final weeks of the session.

  This week we talk with IRRB Commissioner Mark Phillips about economic development on the Iron Range and the impact of trade tariffs on the iron ore industry.

  This week we finish our conversation with Center board member and Minnesota Farm Bureau President Kevin Paap. Kevin touches on the Farm Bill and health insurance for farmers.

  Center board member and Minnesota Farm Bureau President Kevin Paap joins us again to talk about the current state of agriculture in Minnesota. This week we talk about renewable fuels and how changes in the standards at the federal level could affect corn and soybean growers in this uniquely volatile and unpredictable industry. We ...

  Center board member and Minnesota Farm Bureau President Kevin Paap joined us recently to talk about the current state of agriculture in Minnesota and the possible impacts some policies being discussed right now, like tariffs and NAFTA, could have on the industry and farmers.

  In the third and final installment of our talk with the Center’s Kelly Asche on the State of Rural Minnesota, we cover the economic picture. Most of Greater MN weathered the Great Recession well thanks to agriculture, which also bolstered the state as a whole. On the other hand, there’s the rise of job vacancies, ...

With population growth expected to slow and workforce already short in many parts of Minnesota, population and population projections are worth paying attention to. The Center’s research associate Kelly Asche, author of this year’s State of Rural Minnesota report, breaks down the population change patterns across the state in this week’s RuralMN Radio. ...