Showing posts with label Rural Development. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rural Development. Show all posts
Friday, May 13, 2022

USDA and Rural Development

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 Politico has a piece on USDA's challenges with rural development. Some excerpts: “We were in the community earlier today of 130 people...
Monday, June 28, 2021

Agriculture Development Lessons from Outside US

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I think the following analysis applies equally to current problems in developing nations and to the history of agriculture in the US,  part...
Friday, May 12, 2017

USDA Reorganization

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A post here on it at ThinkProgress. The USDA report to Congress on the proposal. Basically it would move NRCS, RMA, and FSA under one n...
Tuesday, June 02, 2015

The Receipt for Service II

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I've got a problem with the Receipt for Service implementation. Just in terms of bureaucracy and system design, county employees are as...
Sunday, May 31, 2015

USDA "Receipt for Service" Initiative I

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USDA's Office of Advocacy and Outreach published an FR notic e of a June meeting on USDA's "Receipt for Service" initiati...
Monday, May 12, 2014

Reinventing Government--How Soon We Forget

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Remember Al Gore?  And his reinventing government?  Apparently neither GAO nor USDA do. A quote from a new GAO report: In fiscal year 20...
Monday, December 10, 2012

A Study in the "Iron Triangle"

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Shortly after being reelected, Rep. Emerson of Missouri is resigning to work for the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association . I r...
Monday, June 25, 2012

Once Rural, Always Rural

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And, a press release a while back from Sen. Jerry Moran (R., Kan.) stated that, “Today, the U.S. Senate passed an amendment to S. 3240, ...
Friday, January 20, 2012

Mobile Offices for USDA?

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Back in the mid-90's, when the Service Center project was under Greg Carnill, one of the proposals coming from RD was to have mobile off...
Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Building Infrastructure: Cooperatives and the REA

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Life on a Colorado Farm has a post on how parts of rural Colorado were electrified.  Clue: it took cooperation, a cooperative, and the gove...
Tuesday, August 09, 2011

How'd That Work Out for the Rural Areas: FDR in 1933

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Matt Yglesias quotes from FDR's inaugural, in the context of whether Obama is a good leader, but I'm interested in this one sentenc...
Thursday, June 09, 2011

Ho Hum, A White House Rural Council

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From the USDA blog, an announcement of a cross-cabinet council to focus on rural matters.  The chances of this accomplishing anything sign...
Friday, May 27, 2011

NASCOE Lobbying Generates Comments

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From USDA's summary of steps taken to improve regulations, this summary of comments received (over 2,000) The vast majority of comments...
Saturday, March 19, 2011

When Is an Earmark an Earnmark

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The Sustainable Ag Coalition believes that ATTRA lost its funding because Congress thought it was an earmark: One very distressing casualt...
Monday, February 28, 2011

RD Takes a Hit

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Rural Development loses $29 million in broadband funds in the 2-week Republican/Democrat budget deal. What's worse is the implicit crit...