Category: Rural Minnesota Radio

On RuralMN Radio this week, the Center’s research associate Kelly Asche talks about our new report on the State of Rural Minnesota. In this first part, Kelly talks about just how we’re defining rural. There’s more to it than you might think.

We talk some more with Thomas Hoff from the Southwest-West Central Service Cooperative in Marshall about LYFT Pathways, a program that is re-introducing kids to technical careers like manufacturing and health care by teaming up with businesses in southwestern and south central Minnesota. Nowadays, two-year vs four-year degree isn’t the issue, Hoff says, but what ...

Thomas Hoff from the Southwest-West Central Service Cooperative in Marshall joins us this week to talk about LYFT Pathways, a program that is re-introducing kids to technical careers like manufacturing and health care by teaming up with businesses in southwestern and south central Minnesota.

Dr. Charlie Blinn with the University of Minnesota Department of Forest Resources joins us again this week. This time he digs into the numbers to take a look at an important part of the forest products industry, the small producers.

Dr. Charles Blinn of the Department of Forest Resources at the University of Minnesota joins us this week to talk about the importance of forestry in Minnesota, not just for wood products but for land stewardship and recreation.

Kent Thiesse, vice president at MinnStar Bank and a Farm Management Specialist, joins us today to talk about what renegotiating NAFTA, or pulling out of it altogether, would mean for agriculture, especially in the Upper Midwest.

CRPD board member and president of Minnesota State Mankato Richard Davenport joins us again this week to talk some more about higher education, specifically how higher ed priorities intersect are affected by federal issues.  

This week Dr. Richard Davenport, president of Minnesota State University Mankato and a Center board member, talks with us about the impact the unknowns at the federal level are having on some aspects of higher education, including fundraising and educational opportunities for immigrants.

We talk this week about the gubernatorial candidates’ forum the Center is hosting along with the Minnesota Newspaper Association and Compeer Financial (formerly AgStar) on Jan. 26. While the event isn’t open to the public, it will be a great opportunity for candidates to sit in front of a room full of newspaper reporters and ...