Center Publications
Free Monthly Newsletter
Center for Rural Affairs Newsletter surveys national events affecting Rural America. Special sections include in-depth features, Corporate Farming Notes, Across the Nation, and many short, newsy pieces of general interest.
Rural Development Library
Contains resources to enhance opportunity through building assets and wealth. This is the most effective strategy there is to create a future for rural communities and their residents.
Health Care Library
A round up of reports on rural health care reform and implementation of the Affordable Care Act. A new series of reports, Health Reform: What's in It? looks at what reform means for small businesses, rural communities and rural medical care. We'll be doing more reports in coming months to help rural people fully understand the new law.
Census Reports
Since the 1980 Census, the Center for Rural Affairs has analyzed Census data for a multi-state region including Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, and Kansas. For the 2010 Census analysis, selected counties in Colorado, Montana, Wisconsin and Wyoming have been added. So far we've reported on population, age distribution, and poverty levels.
Clean Energy
New and upgraded transmission capacity is needed to unlock the wind power potential found in much of rural America. Our economy and our future depend on moving power from remote regions of the Great Plains and Upper Midwest to demand centers that need it most.
Issue Briefs
Issue Briefs provide analysis and comment on critical and emerging issues of significance to rural people and rural places. They complement more in-depth, longer research reports and studies also done by the Center.
Rural Briefs
Rural Briefs analyzed Federal Executive, Legislative, and Administrative action concerning rural development and asset-building programs and initiatives.
Ag Library
Agricultural resources and activities are a staple of rural communities. Our "Ag Library" contains resources developed by the Center for Rural Affairs. These resources cover programs and practices that will yield a sustainable agricultural future for these communities.
Speeches
Speeches by Center staff reflect our vision and mission. Whether about a new kind of farm policy or the state of rural America, they are insightful and often challenge conventional thought.
