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An unsung farm bill hero, rural development needs more champions: Agri
WASHINGTON, March 19, 2017 – U.S. farmers are getting grayer, their national numbers are on the decline and fewer young people are moving back to farms and ranches. The average age of a principal operator of a U.S. farm is now over 58 years old. Absent opportunities for manufacturing, recreation or other industries, many of …
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Written Statement for the US Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
This document discusses a policy perspective which reflects the most critical dynamics to be addressed, to lesson the comparative disadvantage to rural people and places. Written by Charles W. Fluharty (President and CEO, Rural Policy Research Institute) on May 1, 2014 for the US Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. View Document
Rural Defeat, Rural Denial, and the Farm Bill Conference
This has been an historic, discouraging, and informative week in American politics, and the American people have had it. Really, can all this possibly become any more surreal? Written by Charles W. Fluharty, Guest Columnist, AGRIPULSE Magazine in October of 2013. View Column
The Farm Bill, As Metaphor!
RUPRI President and CEO Chuck Fluharty offers commentary on how the failure to pass a farm exposes changing realities in the rural landscape that are not being addressed by current policy embedded in the Farm Bill. Written by Charles W. Fluharty for AGRIPULSE Magazine in August 2013. View Column
On Keeping It Well: The Farm Bill and The Fourth
RUPRI President and CEO Chuck Fluharty comments on factors at play in the defeat of the Farm Bill. Written by Charles W. Fluharty for AGRIPULSE Magazine in July 2013. View Column
Getting Our Story Straight: Rural Facts in Search of the ‘Grand Narrative.’
This column offers commentary calling for policy makers to add new focus and funding for rural innovations in support of meaningful rural development. Written by Charles W. Fluharty, Guest Columnist, AGRIPULSE Magazine in May 2013. View Columnist