Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

Anders T. Van Sandt of the University of Wyoming was elected as the incoming president, and a secretary will be elected before Summer. Each participant gave a brief update about the work being done at their university and their collaborations related to NE 2249 with project members. The summary note is attached. After the updates, there was a discussion about opportunities going forward for the group. Heather Stephens, West Virginia University, provided an excellent example of collaboration integrating research and extension in the project (see her note). The discussion also included the possibility of engaging in collaborative work focused on data/new data metrics that would be accessible to all communities (counties). For the next meeting, We will meet in Washington, D.C., for the 2024 Southern Regional Science Association Meeting.

Grant Awards (project member collaborations)

Stephen Goetz and Claudia Schmidt. Impact of female operated farms on selected rural economic development indicators (joint with Steve Deller).

Responding To America’s Rural Health Challenge: Data-Driven Support for a Critical Era. $650,000 proposal under review at USDA-National Institute of Food and Agriculture. 2023-2027. Principal Investigator: Anders Van Sandt (with Craig W. Carpenter, Cris Meier, and Scott Loveridge).

Northwest and Rocky Mountain Regional Food Business Center. $1,365,240 subcontract from Colorado State University. $50M awarded by USDA Regional Food Business Centers. 2023-2028. State Lead. Heather Stephens. (Co-lead Melissa Hemken at Central Wyoming College, PI Dawn Thilmany at Colorado State University).

Heather Stephens recently received a NIFA grant for funding to study rural female and minority entrepreneurs.  This is in collaboration with Penn State and University of Maine.  It is an integrated project involving Extension, and involves our Extension at WVU as well. This project will start this year and last three years. The work with Penn State is an ongoing collaboration that has previously led to publications.

Northwest Mountain Regional Food Business Center. Regional Food Business Center proposal to the USDA Ag Marketing Service. $50 million. With Oregon State, U of Idaho, Arizona State, Montana State, New Mexico State, Washington State and U of Wyoming.  $50,000,000.  Proposed for July 2023-2028. Dawn Thilmany (with Anders van Sandt on committee).

Development and Expansion of a State-Specific Economic Impact Calculator for Nutrition Incentive Projects. Grant with Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition Incentives. $82,000. 2021-23. Dawn Thilmany with A. Bauman and B. Jablonski, Phil Watson.

Assessing Sustainable Development Goals: Six Cross-Nationally Comparable Agri-Food Pilot Studies. $425,000 Cooperative Agreement with USDA Economic Research Service and Cornell University. 2021-24. Dawn Thilmany. Craig Carpenter and Phil Watson on the committee received subawards from this project.

Storrs Agricultural Experimental Station grant to analyze the entrepreneurial networks of small- and medium-sized agribusinesses in the six New England states (Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Rhode Island) and assess how structures differ by environment (urban, peri-urban, or rural) and socially disadvantaged status. 3-year grant. Emma Bojinova. with collaborators Cristina Connolly (Co-PI) and Jason Entsminger (Co-PI). Our project has an extension component – developing an Extension curriculum surrounding the importance of networking and successful network attributes. This project contributes to the CAHNR’s strategic priorities of ensuring a vibrant and sustainable agricultural industry and food supply, and promoting diversity, equity and inclusion.

Under the leadership of Claudia Schmidt (Penn State University) and in collaboration with colleagues at University of Vermont, Oklahoma State University, Penn State University, University of Maine (Jason Entsminger), and private entity Cultivating Tourism, a NIFA AFRI-funded project has begun publishing a 51-fact sheet series with state and national data on agritourism operations in the U.S.

(submitted)

Jason S. Entsminger, the anticipated new award from USDA NIFA led by Heather Stephens (WVU), along with Penn State University, on non-farm, rural entrepreneurship among minority populations.

Grant Awards (other)

Diane Charlton. NIFA Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) grant with co-authors Amanda Countryman and Dale Manning to investigate the effects of trade policy on rural employment and wages.

SSMART Forestry: Paving the way from Forest Restoration to Cross-Laminated Timber ($4.4 million). Funding agency: U.S. Economic Development Administration. Project period: September 2023–September 2026. PI: Chung, Woodam (chungw), Co-PIs: Nathaniel Anderson, Francisca Belart, Yong Chen,  Raffaele De Amicis, John Hogland, Jesse Johnson, Jay Kim, Kevin Lyons, Lech Muszynski, Nadia Streletskaya.

Anders, John, and Craig Wesley Carpenter. 2022-2023. “Can Education Fight Inherited Inequity? Using Administrative Data to Measure the Direct, Intergenerational, and Interactive Impacts of Redlining and Education.” Russell Sage Foundation. $170,881.

Carpenter, Craig Wesley, John Anders, Marcus Bernard, Trey Malone, and Charles M. Tolbert. 2022-2025. “Documenting Discrimination and Researching Policy: Racial Inequality and Economic Opportunity in Rural America 1920-2020.” USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. $650,000.

Carpenter, Craig Wesley, Charles Tolbert, and Rick Peterson. 2018-2023. “Leveraging Big Data to Investigate and Support ‘Vetrepreneurs.’” USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. $500,000.

McCarl, Bruce, Chengcheng Fei, Craig Wesley Carpenter, and Ronald Sands. 2022-2023. “Impact of Climate Change on Agricultural Processing Facility Movement and Food Dollar.” USDA Economic Research Service. $75,000.

Lotspeich-Yadao, Michael, Craig Wesley Carpenter, and Charles Tolbert. 2021-2023. “Data-Driven Extension Programming for Rural Veteran Workforce Reintegration.” USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. $125,933, awarded and returned due to postdoctoral fellow (Lotspeich-Yadao) faculty placement.

Economic Development Administration, US Department of Commerce. “University of Wisconsin EDA University Center.” PIs: Tessa Conroy, Matt Kures, Kristen Runge and Steven Deller. Duration: August 2021 – July 2025. Amount: $750,000. 

Economic Development Administration, US Department of Commerce. “University of Wisconsin EDA University Center, COVID-19 Response.” PIs: Tessa Conroy, Matt Kures, Kristen Runge and Steven Deller. Duration: September 2020 – August 2022. Amount: $300,000.

United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service. “Labor Market Equity and Entrepreneurial Outcomes for Disadvantaged Populations.” PIs: Tessa Conroy and Steven Deller. Duration: September 30, 2022 -- September 30, 2024. Amount: $20,000.

Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation. “Community Economic Analysis for Rural Wisconsin Communities (CEA-RWC).” PIs: Brandon Hofstedt and Steven Deller.  Duration: July 1, 2022 – June 30, 2024. Amount: $150,000.

Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation. “Rural Wisconsin Entrepreneurship.” PIs: Brandon Hofstedt and Tessa Conroy, Co-PIs:  Steven Deller, Matt Kures and Kristin Runge. Duration: November 1, 2022 – October 31, 2026. Amount: $1,000,000.

Jason S. Entsminger. NIFA-funded project involving the University of Missouri, University of Maine, and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

Resilient Biomass-Combined Heat and Power Systems for Rural Communities, Co-PI (USDA-NIFA, $1,000,000, 2020-2024) Lead by Mohammad Maruffuzzaman (Ayoung Kim, Co-PI)

The Racial Wealth Gap, Persistent Poverty and Heirs’ Property: Analysis, Connections, and Solutions,
Co-PI (USDA-NIFA, $499,997, 2021-2024) Lead by John Green, (Ayoung Kim, Co-PI)

Cäzilia Loibl, Ohio Housing Finance Agency, 2021-2023; Huntington National Bank, 2022-2024; Social Security Administration Retirement and Disability Research Consortium at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Financial Security, 2022-2023; Kathleen Kelly Seed Grants program, 2021-2023

Loveridge, Scott, Mark Skidmore, et al. 2022-2026. “Measuring and Mapping Rural Inflation.” USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. $800,000.

Low, Sarah et al. The Growing Rural Health Disadvantage: Causes and Consequences for Rural Labor Markets. 2021-2023. USDA Economic Research Service, non-assistance cooperative agreement. $145,000.

Low, Sarah et al. State and Regional Farm Financial Analysis. 2021-2024. USDA Office of the Chief Economist, Agricultural and Food Policy Research Centers. $1,425,000.

Cross-State Heterogeneity of Farm-Scale Hemp Production Costs. Subcontract with University of Kentucky and Cooperative Agreement with the USDA Ag Marketing Service. 2022-2023. $360,000. Dawn Thilmany with T. Marks, D. Mooney and R. Hill.

Planning and Technical Support to Diversify Economic Opportunities in Colorado: A Technical Assistance Project. Proposal to the Economic Development Administration. Funded for $575,000. Dawn Thilmany with S. Weiler, S. Shrake, A. Sintas, R. Hill and in cooperation with Delta County. Fall 2020-September

Whitacre, Brian. 2022-2023 “Library Telehealth Boxes in Persistent Poverty Rural Oklahoma Counties.” Oklahoma State Department of Health. $150,000.

Whitacre, Brian. 2022-2023. “Impacts of Broadband Speed on Rural Business Dynamics.”  USDA – Economic Research Service.  $20,000. Funding Christina Biedny (Ph.D. student).

Extension Programs (project member collaborations)

A collaboration of research and Extension professionals at Penn State University (Claudia Schmidt), University of Maine (Jason S. Entsminger), Utah State University, Oklahoma State University, University of Vermont, and private entity Cultivating Tourism held an interactive webinar under as part of the National Extension Tourism Network to convene the agritourism support services community of practice in the U.S. Follow-ups to the webinar have included the contributions to three conference presentations among the collaboration with another under submission and developed an interactive digital resource map.

The EOM (Economic Opportunity Maps) tool: Anderson Van Sandt created with Craig Carpenter, allows users to identify opportunities and barriers to entrepreneurs and businesses within local, specific industries. While the tool is still available, we are working with Phil Watson to try to produce unsuppressed establishment counts that can be used to update the tool.

Agritourism Extension in the United States. Agritourism collaborative and summary of working Submitted to the Applied Economics Teaching Resources Special Issue on Extension. (Dawn Thilmany with C. Schmidt, C. Barbieri, L. Dickes, L. Chase, S. Tomas, D. Singh-Knights, P. Leff, H. George, R. Callahan, E. Rilla-Laherty, D. Lamie and S. Cornelisse)

Entsminger, Jason, John Green, Rachel Welborn, Renee Wiatt, Zuzanna Bednarikova, Riana Gayle, Yuxuan Pan, and Stephan J. Goetz. (February 2023). “Comprehensive Summary of National Rural Development Stakeholder Listening Sessions.” Regional Rural Development Centers. https://www.usu.edu/rrdc/listening-sessions

Extension Programs (other)

Ohio State University Extension Housing Counseling Program (Director: Loibl, Cäzilia): HUD approved housing counseling agency having 14 HUD approved housing counselors serving the State of Ohio.

CSU continues to establish a new Rural Engagement Initiative and Dawn Thilmany co-lead the work focused on Thriving Economy / Food and Agriculture. There was 6 new hires made in the past year, and two more starting in summer 2023 to re-establish regional networks for rural, community and economic development throughout Colorado. In addition to continuing to make progress rebuilding community relationships and communicating the increased capacity to work in Economic development alongside our Vibrant Community partners (FLTI, Engaged Centers), we are centering rural initiative work in three areas:

1. Targeted Technical Assistance for food/ag enterprises, sectors and community initiatives
2. Co-Creating Entrepreneurial Programs with Community colleges and producer associations
3. Data platforms and decision tools to guide market strategies and new investments

In addition, we have a couple of other projects at the intersection of food and economic development we continue to partner on.

The Wyoming Integrated Statistics Environment (WISE), Anders Van Sandt

Once completed, WISE will improve local strategic planning, increase decision makers’ capacity, and assist with business births or branch location. WISE is an online interactive map where stakeholders can access timely and nuanced data on their community. The tool includes economic, demographic, health, tourism, financial, land, and many other types of data. WISE automatically updates new data once available, is financially sustainable, and establishes partnerships across state agencies and organizations.

Journal Articles (project member collaborations)

Carpenter, C. W., Van Sandt, A., and Loveridge, S. (2022). “Food and Agricultural Industry Locational Determinants Research: Aggregation Bias and Size Measurement in the Agricultural Support Industry.” Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 51(3), 558-578. https://doi.org/10.1017/age.2022.21

Carpenter, C. W., Van Sandt, A., Dudensing, R., Loveridge, S., and Niehm, L. (2022). “The Economic Opportunity Mapping (EOM) Tool.” Journal of Extension, forthcoming.

Deller, Steven C., Whitacre, Brian, and Conroy, Tessa. 2022. “Rural Broadband Speeds and Business Startup Rates.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 104(3):999-1025.

Goetz, S. J., Heaton, C., Imran, M., Pan, Y., Tian, Z., Schmidt, C., Qazi, U., Olfi, F., and Mitra, P. 2022. Food Insufficiency and Twitter Emotions During a Pandemic. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/aepp.13258

Halstead, John M., Deller, Steven C., and Leyden, Kevin M. 2022. “Social Capital and Community Development: Where do We Go from Here?” Community Development. 53(1):92 108.

Han, L., Goetz, S. J., Eades, D., Entsminger, J. E., and Arbogast, D. 2022. An Early Assessment of COVID-19’s Impact on Tourism in U.S. Counties. Tourism Economics.

Loveridge, Scott, Mark Skidmore, Robert Shupp, Paula Miller, Courtney Cuthbertson, and Stephan J. Goetz. 2023. “Rural US residents recognize anxiety better than urbanites and suburbanites but hold similar stigma.” The Journal of Rural Health, jrh.12757. https://doi.org/10.1111/jrh.12757

Low, S.A., Rahe M. and A. Van Leuven. 2022. “Has COVID-19 made rural areas more attractive places to live? Survey evidence from northwest Missouri.” Regional Science, Policy and Practice. doi:10.1111/rsp3.12543

Palardy, N., M. Costanigro, J. Cannon, D. Thilmany, J. Berning, J. Bayham and J. Callaway. 2023. Beer Sales in Grocery and Convenience Stores: A Glass Half-Full for Craft Brewers? Regional Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2023.2166914

Schmidt, C., L. Chase, C. Barbieri, E. Rilla-Laherty, D. Singh-Knights, D. Thilmany, S. Tomas, L. Dickes, S. Cornelisse, D. Lamie, R. Callahan, H. George and P. Leff. 2022. Agritourism Extension in the United States. Applied Economics Teaching Resources. Special Issue on Extension. Summer 2022. https://www.aaea.org/UserFiles/file/AETR_2022_005RRProofFinal1_v1.pdf.

Schmidt, Claudia, Zheng Tian, Stephan J. Goetz, Chadley R. Hollas, and Lisa Chase. 2023. “Agritourism and Direct Sales Clusters in the United States.” Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 52 (1): 168–88. https://doi.org/10.1017/age.2023.1.

Tian, Z., Schmidt, C., Goetz, S. J., et al. 2022. The Role of Community Food Services in Reducing U.S. Food Insufficiency in the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 47(3), 18. DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.313316 (selected as best paper published in 2022)

Van Leuven, A., Hill, E. and Low, S.A. 2022. “Which Side of Town? How Proximity to Critical Survival Factors Affects Rural Business Longevity. Growth & Change. Online first, pp. 1-34. doi.org/10.1111/grow.12652

Van Sandt, A., Carpenter, C. W., Tolbert, C. 2022. “Decomposing local bank impacts with demand thresholds.” The Annals of Regional Science, 1-20. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-

Watson, Philip, and Deller, Steven C. 2022. “Tourism and Economic Resilience.” Tourism Economics. 28(5):1193-1215

(under review)

Yong Chen, Bigelow, D.P. and M. Jodlowski. 2022. "Self-reporting and aggregation bias in Ricardian climate impacts: Evidence from observed farmland sales." Second round of review at American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Yong Chen, Wing, H., D.P. Bigelow, and K.B. Fuller. 2022. "Does temporary land retirement promote organic adoption? Evidence from the Conservation Reserve Program." Under review at American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Journal Articles (other)

Arbogast, D., Eades, D., Goetz, S. J., and Pan, Y. 2022. “Extension and Tourism: Previous Efforts, Current Trends, and the Future.” Journal of Extension, 60(2). ISBN/ISSN: 1077-5315

Bigelow, D.P. and T. Kuethe. 2023. "The impact of preferential farmland taxation on local public finances." Regional Science and Urban Economics 98: 103848.

Canfield, C., Low, S.A., Golnick, C. and D. Davis. 2022. “Stakeholder Engagement Can Improve Broadband Impact Evaluations.” Choices, 37(3).

Chen, Yong, Lan Xue, Jaeho Jung, Myungjin Kim. “Administrative Cost of US Counties and Local Context Dependence”, Accepted at Review of Regional Studies.

Chengm H., R. Feuz, and D.M. Lambert. 2023. “A comparison of best-worst scaling marginal and rank methods.” Applied Economics Letters, 1-4

Deller, Steven C. 2022. “Access to Health Care and Rural Worker Productivity." Applied

Economic Perspectives and Policy. 44(2):722-741.

Deller, Steven C., Conroy, Tessa, and Kures, Matthrew. (2022). “Immigration and Rates of

Entrepreneurship in Large U.S. Communities.” Local Development & Society. (published online

June 10, 2022).

Drost, Madeleine, Anastasia Snyder, Michael Betz, and Cäzilia Loibl. 2022. “Financial strain and loneliness in older adults.” Applied Economics Letters, DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2022.2152421

Ge, H., Goetz, S. J., Cleary, R., Yi, J., and Gomez, M. I. 2022. “Facility locations in the fresh produce supply chain: An integration of optimization and empirical methods. ” International Journal of Production Economics, 249. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2022.108534

Harris, T, and E, Grumstrup. (accepted). “Alternative Public Land Management Policy Impacts: Ranch and County Level.” Journal of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers.

Haurin, Donald, Stephanie Moulton, and Cäzilia Loibl. 2022. “The relationship of financial stress with the timing of the initial claim of U.S. Social Security retirement income.” Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Volume 21, Issue February, Article number 100362. DOI: 10.1016/j.jeoa.2021.100362 

Herchenbach, J., Briggeman, B., Bergtold, J., Shanoyan, A. Low, S.A., and Miller, B. (accepted). “A Qualitative Assessment of Farmer Director Skills in Agricultural Cooperatives.” International Food & Agribusiness Management Review.

Isley, C. and Low, S.A. (accepted) “Meat Processing Plant Survival: The Role of Plant and Regional Characteristics.” Journal of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association.

Isley, C. and S.A. Low. 2022. “Impact of broadband availability and adoption on rural employment during COVID-19.” Telecommunications Policy, 46(7). 10.1016/j.telpol.2022.102310

Keeler, Zachary T. and Heather M. Stephens. 2022. The capitalization of metro rail access in urban housing markets.” Real Estate Economics. DOI: 10.1111/1540-6229.12411 

Kim, Ayoung, J. Lim, and A. Colletta. 2023. “How Regional Economic Structure Matters in the Era of COVID-19: Resilience Capacity of U.S. states.” The Annals of Regional Science, 70: 15-185, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-022-01134-w.

Lim, SH and C Wachenheim. 2022. “Predicted Enrollment in Alternative Attribute Conservation Reserve Program Contracts.” Land Use Policy, 117 (2022), 106090.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106090

Lim, SH, Y Ge, JM Jacobs and X Jia. 2022. “Measuring the Economic Benefits of Advanced Technology Use for River Flood Forecasting.” Journal of Flood Risk Management, e12781. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfr3.12781

Lin, T, Z Lin, SH Lim, X Jia and X Chu. 2022. “A Spatial Agent-Based Model for Hydraulic Fracturing Water Distribution.” Frontiers in Environmental Science, 10:1025559. DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2022.1025559. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2022.1025559

Loibl, Cäzilia, Alec Rhodes, Stephanie Moulton, Donald Haurin, and Chrisse Edmunds1. 2021. “Food insecurity among older adults in the U.S.: The role of mortgage borrowing.” Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, Volume 44, Issue 2, p. 549-574, DOI: 10.1002/aepp.13219  "Featured Article"

Loibl, Cäzilia, Madeleine Drost, Martijn Huisman, Bianca Suanet, Wandi Bruine de Bruin, Simon McNair, and Barbara Summers. 2022. “Worry about debt is related to social loneliness in older adults in the Netherlands.” Ageing and Society. Volume 42, Issue 12, p. 2869-2891 DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X21000325 

Loibl, Cäzilia, Stephanie Moulton, Donald Haurin and Chrisse Edmunds. 2022. “The role of consumer and mortgage borrowing for financial stress.” Aging and Mental Health, Volume 26, Issue 1, p. 116-129. DOI: 10.1080/13607863.2020.1843000

Loibl, Cäzilia, Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Barbara Summers, Simon McNair, and Pieter Verhallen. 2022. “Which financial stressors are linked to food insecurity among older adults in the United Kingdom, Germany, and the Netherlands?” Food Security, Volume 14, Issue 2, p. 533-556, DOI: 10.1007/s12571-021-01206-3

Moulton, Stephanie, Alec Rhodes, Donald Haurin, Loibl, Cäzilia. 2022. “Managing the onset of a new disease in older age: Housing wealth, mortgage borrowing, and medication adherence.” Social Science and Medicine. Volume 314. Issue: December, Article number 115437, DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115437; CFP Board's ACCI Financial Planning Paper Award

Moulton, Stephanie, J. Michael Collins, Cäzilia Loibl, Donald Haurin, and Julia Brown1. 2022. “Property tax compliance and reverse mortgages: Using nudges to improve the market.” National Tax Journal. Volume 75, Issue 1, p. 33-59, DOI: 10.1086/717160

Poursina, D., B.W. Brorsen, and D.M. Lambert. 2023. “Nearly Ds-optimal assigned location design for a linear model with spatially varying coefficients.” Spatial Statistics. 53, 100727

Stephens, Heather M., Elizabeth A. Mack, and John Mann. 2022. “Broadband and Entrepreneurship: An Empirical Assessment of the Connection between Broadband Availability and New Business Activity across the United States.” Telematics and Informatics. DOI: 10.1016/j.tele.2022.101873.

Conroy, T. and P. Watson. 2023. “Overeducation, natural amenities, and entrepreneurship.” Small Business Economics.

Valentin-Silvico, J., Canfield, C., Low, S.A., and Gollnick, C. 2023. “Evaluating the Impact of Broadband Access and Internet Use in a Small Underserved Rural Community” Telecommunications Policy, 47(4). ttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2023.102499

Yun, S.D. and Ayoung Kim. 2022. “Economic Impact of Natural Disasters: A Myth or Mismeasurement?.” Applied Economics Letters. 29(10): 861-866. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2021.1896667.

Winfree, J. and P. Watson. 2022. “Changes in distilled spirits sales and preferences during COVID-19.” Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs. 83 (6)

Watson, and J. Winfree. 2022. “Should we use antitrust policies on big agriculture?” Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 44 (3), 1313-1326

Other Publications

Claudia Schmidt, Zheng Tian, Stephan J. Goetz, Chadley R. Hollas, and Lisa Chase

Penn State News release was published on April 19: “Opening farms to visitors boosts nearby farms’ direct sales, and vice versa” available at: https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/opening-farms-visitors-boosts-nearby-farms-direct-sales-and-vice-versa/

Kim, E., Ayoung Kim, and I. Moon. 2022. “Government Intervention in Real Estate Market: Is Tax Reform Effective in Seoul Housing Market?.” In Theory and History in Regional Perspective, edited by M. Kawano, K. Kourtit, P. Nijkamp, and Y Higano, New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives, Vol. 56: 221-243, Springer, Singapore, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-6695-7_12

Ayoung Kim and B.S. Waldorf. 2023. “The Index of Relative Rurality (IRR): US County Data for 2020, Version 1.0.0 [Data set], Zenodo, doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7675745.

Pipa, Anthony F., Heather M. Stephens, and Natalie Geismar. 2022. “Defining distress: Lessons from the Federally Chartered Regional Commissions.” The Brookings Institution. https://www.brookings.edu/research/defining-distress-lessons-from-the-federally-chartered-regional-commissions/

Van Sandt, A.. 2022. “Cultural Heritage, Creativity and Economic Development.” By Silvia Cerisola. 2019. pp. 208. ISBN: 978 1 78897 528 5. Growth & Change, 54(1), 346-347.

Extension Articles (project member collaborations)

None

Extension Articles (other)

Aadland, D., Van Sandt, A., and Nevels, S.. 2023. Evaluating the Economic Impact of Providing Municipal Water to Laramie County Housing Developments. Laramie, WY: Center for Business and Economic Analysis (CBEA). Prepared for Cheyenne Mayor’s Office.

Bastian, C., Van Sandt, A., and Coupal, R.. 2022. “2021 Wyoming Comprehensive Off-Road Vehicle Recreation Report.” University of Wyoming, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics. Prepared for the State of Wyoming, Department of State Parks and Cultural Resources. October 2022.

2. Rossi and D. Thilmany. COVID-19 2.0: Exploring Awareness and Promotional Linkages to New Market Channels. Local Food System Response to COVID Series CFI-2.01. August 2022. https://lfscovid.localfoodeconomics.com/consumer-food-insights/

Chicola, R., and T. Harris. 2022. “State Comparison of Payment in Lieu of Taxes for 2020”. Fact Sheet 21-107.

Deller, Steven C., Conroy, Tessa, and Kures, Matthrew. (2022). “Immigration and Rates of

Entrepreneurship in Large U.S. Communities.” Local Development & Society. (published online

June 10, 2022).

Hansen, K., Van Sandt, A. .2023. Wyoming Perceptions of Extreme Weather Events. CowCountry, Wyoming Stock Growers Association. Forthcoming, 2023.

Hansen, K., Van Sandt, A., Hewlett, J.. 2023. Calculation of Appropriate Risk Premiums for SCPP Enrollment. Prepared for Wyoming State Engineers Office. April, 2023.

Harris, T., S. Emm, C. Bishop, B. Freeman, K. Emm, and B. Borden. 2022 “ Yerington Paiute Tribe  Tribal College Feasibility and Economic Impact Report”. University Center Technical Report, UCED 2021/22-12.

Harris, T. 2022. “A Trade Area Analysis for Lincoln County Retail and Service Markets, 2020”. University Center Technical Report, UCED 2022/23-05.

Harris, T., M. Tosun, J. Hasting, V. Scavacini, P. Bowers, and E. Olosinki. 2022. “Southern Nevada Asset Map Report Phase 1”. Clark County Education Association, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Harris, T., M. Tosun, J. Hasting, and R, Chicola. 2023. “Aligning Southern Nevada’s K-16 Education-to-Workforce Pipeline for a New Economy”. Report to Clark County Education Association, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Isley, C. and S.A. Low. 2022. Different Factors are Associated with Small and Large Meat Processor Survival. A Riff from RaFF, 1(5), August. Available at:https://ruralandfarmfinance.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Plant-Survival_v1i5_published8.31.222.pdf

Isley, C., Nichols, Z. and S.A. Low. 2022. How Broadband Adoption and Availability Impacted Rural Employment During COVID-19. University of Missouri Extension Guide, dm602.Available at: https://extension.missouri.edu/publications/dm602

Martin, Heather, Rose Hayden-Smith, and Kristen Devlin. 2023. “The NET Effect: Members of the National Extension Tourism network help raise the bar in sustainable tourism and outdoor recreation.” Extension Foundation. https://extensiontourism.net/net-e-zine-highlights-successes-presents-case-studies/

Meier, C., Ward, L., Van Sandt, A., Schneider, S., Gayle, R.. 2022. “Western Region Health & Wellness Programming Efforts: Qualitative Results from a Three-Part Listening Session.” Paper 2295. Utah State University Extension. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/extension_curall/2295/

Mooney, M. S.H. Kim, M. Sullins and D. Thilmany.  2022. The Ownership of Enterprise in Colorado: Agricultural and Community-Based Cooperatives. REDI Report – December 2022. https://redi.colostate.edu/

Dethloff, N, Van Leuven, A. J., B. Courtney. 2022. Customer Service Basics for Agricultural Entrepreneurs. Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service. AGEG-920

Spell, A., Jacobs, K.A. and S.A. Low. 2022. The Importance of Off-Farm Income to the Agricultural Economy. CoBank & MU Extension report. Available at:https://www.cobank.com/knowledge-exchange/general/the-importance-of-off-farmincome-to-the-agricultural-economy

Thilmany, D. A. Survey Overview. Exploring the Start-Up Dynamics of Food Businesses Using Shared Kitchens. Shared Kitchen Survey Insights. USDA Ag Marketing Services Report. August 2022. https://localfoodeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Shared-Kitchen-Survey-Insights_Survey-Overview-1.pdf

Thilmany, D. Business Viability and Growth. Exploring the Start-Up Dynamics of Food Businesses Using Shared Kitchens. Shared Kitchen Survey Insights. USDA Ag Marketing Services Report. August 2022. https://localfoodeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Shared-Kitchen-Survey-Insights_Business-Viability-and-Growth-1.pdf

Van Leuven, A.J.. 2023. Participants in Community and Economic Development. Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service. AGEG-950

Van Sandt, A. and Daniels, J.. 2022. “State Health Improvement Forum Analysis of Deliberative Dialogue Forums.” University of Wyoming Extension Service. Prepared for the State of Wyoming, Department of Health. October, 2022.

Van Sandt, A.. 2022. “Big Horn County Socioeconomic Profile.” University of Wyoming Extension Service. Prepared for Big Horn County Commissioner’s Office. July 31, 2022.

Yong Chen Draft article on farmland values in Oregon titled “An analysis of recent survey-based farmland values in Oregon” submitted for publication in Digger Magazine, an extension magazine published by the Oregon Association of Nurseries.