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Agripreneurs Live Here

October 5th, 2011

I’ve been watching farmers for a long time. Growing up as a farmer’s granddaughter and daughter I had no other aspirations than to not spend the rest of my life tied to this land. But being a farmer’s wife, mom to farmers, mother-in-law, sister, friend and now “Grandma” to up and coming young farmers has taught me a deep appreciation of local agriculture here in Miner County, SD where I make my home.

Less than 2% of us

I used to put 100 pennies in a line on the kitchen table and explain that the first penny and about half of the second represented the number of farmers and that these few, in turn, grew the food for all the rest of us. Today’s farmer feeds an average of 155 people so I need to revise my teaching tool! We all need to be paying more attention to our young farm families.

Above Average

I also believe really good farmers are well beyond the average. It’s not enough to academically understand all that goes into farming from soil testing to crop planning to machine maintenance and storage. It’s not enough to have the ability to think generations ahead in a breeding program, plan for proper nutrition and health, drive facilities design, construction and management. Today’s agriculture is all of those things and more. You have to be a marketing expert,financial planner, strategic thinker and a resilient soul. You have to consider your neighbors – the wildlife and plant life with which you share space and resources and your human neighbors who look to you for help and assistance.

More than making a living

I recently learned a new phrase and I think I’m going to love it –“agripreneur”. This is a new phrase and just being developed but I will add that I hope it begins to describe the business, entrepreneurial and comprehensive ability components of today’s successful young farmers. It’s a competitive world pitched against large ag corporations and the number of young farmers is fewer and fewer. You have to be good at what you do. You have to keep learning and growing in your work. You have to love it so much that you attend to it every day, 365 days a year. Hopefully you are so devoted to it that you teach your children to love it just as much as you do. The other 153 plus of us are counting on you!

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Get outa town, exchange ideas, and build dialogue

June 23rd, 2011

A couple days ago, I caught some good advice on the Ruraltopia blog. In an article titled “Get Outa Town...,” Trent McKnight highlighted his participation in the recent Texas Rural Challenge conference. McKnight explained that he was personally inspired by Bob Dixson, the mayor of Greensburg, KS, which was almost completely wiped out by a F5 tornado in 2007. He also highlighted the great networking opportunities that took place in the conference hallways; people from rural communities throughout Texas shared ideas about their challenges and solutions. It was his conclusion, however, that caught my attention:

If you want to do something great for your hometown, begin the dialogue. Share your challenges on this blog and get outa town to attend a regional forum on rural development. Only when we come together as a community of rural innovators will we be able to address and overcome our challenges and achieve Ruraltopia.” (source: "Get outa town..." Trent McKnight, Ruraltopia, June 20, 2011)

Get outa town, exchange ideas, and bring ‘em back for some dialogue. Good advice for kick-starting the innovation process. Ten years ago, dialogue of this nature had to take place in face-to-face settings, like conferences. With the rise of social media, however, more of this conversation can take place online, thereby breaking the confines of our rural geography.

Be sure to talk locally

In addition to talking online with rural innovators from around the country, I would also encourage everyone to begin the dialogue locally -- within their own community. I’m often reminded of how the process for change began in Miner County. During our community vision meetings, residents sat down in small groups at the kitchen tables of their neighbors, talked about innovative activities in other rural communities, and tried to figure out how these innovative activities applied to our own community. That process of dialogue is key. Not only is there Wisdom in Crowds, but conversation helps build stronger social capital, making it easier to bring about the changes we need in our communities. And we could all stand a little of that.

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Shaping the New Rural with Backbone and Clay

June 10th, 2011

Editors Note: Joe Bartmann returned to the Rural Learning Center in February to become its president. Longtime readers will recognize Joe's writings from his previous stint at the RLC. As Joe settles into his job, we hope he finds the time to write more regularly for Reimagine Rural. Thank you to Karl Stauber for being bold, and spot on. His Old Rural and New Rural concept, shared over the last few days on The Daily Yonder (part one and part two), set down important stepping stones in a path so many are working to build today. We really can turn things around in dying rural communities, and we should.

Sort of like Lady Gaga (minus the flamboyant costumes), many of us feel like we were "born this way." Rural is a part of our being as much as our physical attributes or religion or family. For those communities where leaders stand up and families roll up their sleeves to make change, our great country should rethink the ways it can be there to help. After all, as Karl points out, this is America--land of opportunity for all. Our history tells us that sometimes it takes great effort and guts to convince some groups of people that the others deserve that opportunity too. Getting to "New Rural" takes a movement that helps America reimagine what a small town is and can be. It is a serious shift in thinking that must come before major changes in policy. It's not hard to understand why many leaders would want to focus scarce resources where there are the most people. That's why, as Stauber also points out, this policy shift we're talking about is not a handout every rural community or person is entitled to just because they choose to live in rural places. We are the change we seek. No rural community, regardless of how much money might get thrown at them, can prosper without seeing their own handprints on the problems they face, and grabbing their own bootstraps to do the slow, hard, messy work of reinventing life and leadership in their own community. The people of Miner County have made remarkable choices in becoming an example of the "New Rural" Stauber writes of. Leaders, students, seniors and entrepreneurs alike here have learned to continually convince and encourage each other to reinvent their economic opportunity strategies over the past 15 years. The work here is both backbone and clay. There are rigid principles to follow that serve as backbone --rules that say everyone matters, every person is a resource, we must invest in ourselves, we are part of many regional ecosystems, radical collaboration works, we must celebrate our stories, and so on. And there is plenty of clay here too--room to mold and shape and reshape what it is to live and work in this rural place. The magic in getting to New Rural is being boldly open to what is backbone and what is clay, in our national and state policy making, and in our own rural communities. Together, we really can reimagine Rural America. Photo Credit: Scania Group - Flickr

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Tom Kilian: Rooted in Rural

February 28th, 2011

Jill Callison from the Sioux Falls Argus Leader recently learned something I discovered a decade ago. If you sit down for a talk with Tom Kilian, you’d better be ready to be bowled over by “aha” moments. The man’s accomplishments and wisdom are simply overwhelming. I’ll let you check out Callison’s article to discover Tom’s life accomplishments and influence on South Dakota. But as you read, I’d invite you to look closely for what I think makes Tom special. Built on a foundation of serving others, Tom is rooted in both South Dakota and his childhood home in Miner County, SD.

(source: "Kilian gives up office, but not his desire to help," Argus Leader, Feb. 24, 2011)

Rooted in Place

Rural leaders often use the axiom “Our children are our greatest export” to highlight the negative aspects of youth outmigration. But Tom offers an example of someone who left but still contributes. I first met Tom in the late 1990s while he was sharing stories with Howard High School students of his life growing up in Miner County. The stories he told, such as how he would ride the train to school in Howard each day from Vilas, helped students understand and appreciate their roots in Miner County. Tom has contributed to life in Miner County in many other ways: He’s assisted people trying to start businesses, offered advice to community groups on numbers of projects, served on the Rural Learning Center Board of Directors, and much, much more. This is the behavior often expected of citizens of rural communities. But Tom’s not a citizen of Miner County. He’s lived most of his adult life in Sioux Falls, where he’s an active community member. So what causes Tom to devote so much energy to his childhood home?

How do roots develop?

Young people have and always will leave our communities. In fact, we want them to. We want them to go off and acquire new experiences. We want them to stretch the boundaries of their education. But we also want them to stay connected. Sometimes that means returning to raise their families. At other times, it means living elsewhere but still giving back in ways like Tom does. When I think of Tom and his connection to Miner County, I think of him as being “rooted in place.” Those roots took hold while growing up in Miner County. They’ve enabled him to lead an incredibly productive life outside of Miner County. And they are the same roots that keep bringing him back. How we stem the tide of youth outmigration is worthy of discussion in rural places. But a more important question for rural community leaders to ask might be, “How do we help our young people grow the roots that enable them to live a life filled with accomplishments (wherever that may be) AND remain connected to the place of their birth?” It seems to me that rural communities are pretty good at the former. And it is time that we get better at the latter.

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August 6th, 2010

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May 21st, 2010

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December 22nd, 2009

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What is Community Wind?

Without drawing much attention to it, I've talked about community wind before. In a nutshell, community wind involves local ownership of wind turbines. The electricity produced by the turbines is usually sold to area utilities.

This model flies in the face of traditional wind farms, where a company builds and operates large wind farms. Because wind energy is the focus of their business, these companies develop both the expertise and economy of scale that drives down the cost of production.

But the downside to the traditional model is that it is dependent on the development of new transmission lines and causes a greater share of the financial impact from the turbines to bypass the local economy.

Why aren't there more community wind projects?

A simple answer to the question is that people who try to develop their own wind projects don't know how to overcome the barriers that pop up in the development process. "Lessons & Concepts for Advancing Community Wind" attempts to address these issues by providing case studies of three community wind projects: City of Willmar, MN; Winona County MN; and Miner County, SD. These three projects were selected for review because each took a very different path to completion.

I've written about both the Miner County and Winona County projects before (see here and here). The "Lessons & Concepts" guide, however, digs in much deeper. It would have been nice to have had this guide back in 2001 when we developed the Miner County Wind Project.

And that's the value of the guide. It's intended to help people with little background in the energy industry build their capacity and understanding.

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December 14th, 2009

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Big problems can't be solved by big solutions. That makes me think of Rosa Parks. One lady, who refused to give up her seat on a bus, helped launch the Civil Rights movement. Of course, her singular action - standing up to the injustice of segregation on Montgomery, AL buses -- didn't eliminate discrimination overnight, but her effort played a pivotal role in solving a problem many, at the time, deemed insurmountable.

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Admittedly, I haven't studied the nuances of climate change legislation before Congress as much as I should. In reading the document, I was alarmed to learn that the Secretary of Transportation had proposed a "vehicle miles traveled" (as opposed to a fuel tax) as a way to reduce pollution and increase revenue for our highways. Residents of rural states undoubtedly cringe at the negative impact such legislation would have on their pocketbooks. Luckily, the measure was quickly abandoned by the Obama administration, but it shows that we should be paying closer attention.

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