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By John Crabtree, Center for Rural Affairs There is no legislation in Congress with greater potential to create jobs and directly impact rural revitalization and economic development in the Midwest and Great Plains than the renewable energ bill currently in the
U.S. Senate. According to a recent Center for Rural Affairs report (http://files.cfra.org/pd f/Renewable-Energyand-Economic-Potential.pdf), expanding production of renewable electricity to 20% of the nation's electrical generation has the potential to create over 9,000 long-term jobs in operations and maintenance of Iowa
wind farms. Jobs are only a part of the potential economic benefit of a 20% renewable electricity standard. Iowa farmers and ranchers would stand to benefit as well .- to the tune of approximately $53 million, $5,000 per wind turbine, in annual payments for leasing land for wind turbines, access roads and the like. Wind energy development initiatives that allow farm-( ers and ranchers to share in the ownership of turbines as well as the profits generated by their operation would provide even greater economic benefits. The renewable electricity standard i s important, but it is cmcia1 that the standard that came out of the Senate Energy Committee - 10% from wind, solar, geothermal, new hydoelectric and biomass by the year 2021 - be strengthened on the floor of the Senate in order for the rural Midwest to realize the fullest economic potential of wind energy development. Iowa should be part of America's energy future and the accompanying, unprecedented opportunity to create jobs and a better future for our rural communities.
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'Renewable Energy And Economic Potential' By John Crabtree,johnc@cfra.org,Centerfir Rural Affairs There is no legislation in Congress with greater potential to create jobs and directly impact rural revitalization in the Midwest and Great Plains than the renewable energy bill currently pending in the U.S. Senate. According to a recent m t e r for Rural Affak report, expanding production of renewable electricity to 20 percent of the nation's electrical generation has the potential to create over 3,500 long-ten jobs in operations and maintenance of Nebraska wind farms. Jobs are only a part of the potential economic benefit of a 20 percent renewable electricity standard. Nebraska farmers and ranchers would stand to benefit as well - to the tune of approximately $21 million. $5,000 per wind turbine, in annual payments for leasing land for wind turbines, access rmds and the like. Wind energy development initiatives that allow fanners and ranchers to share in the ownership of turbines as well as the profits generated by their operation would provide even greater economic benefits. The renewable electricity standard is important, but it is crucial that the standard that came out of the Senate Energy Committee - 10 percent from wind, solar, geothermal, new hydoelectric and biomass by the year 2021 - be strengthened on the floor of the Senate in order for the rural Midwest and Great Plains to realize the fullest economic potential of wind energy development. Nebraska should be part of America's energy future and the accompanying, unprecedented opportunity to create jobs and a better future for our rural communities. The repon can be found at www.cfra.org.
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available for grants LYONS. NEB - The U.S. Dqmtment of Agriculm ncently announced that $18 million is available for the Value-Added Ruduca Grant (VAPG) plognun. The deadline to apply is Nov. 30,
2009. - Agriculnrral pnxlucexs, businesses owned by a majority of agiculturl producers and -mizations repsentin agricultud pmduoa arc eligibfe to apply for Value-Added Roducer G m t s for business planning or working c a p itai expenses associated with marketing a value-added agriculad product. Agricultural producers include farmers, ranchers. loggers, agricultural harvesters and fishermen that engage in the production or harvesting of an agriculnual commodity. "Any farmer or rancher needing planning or working capital funds to move their value-added ideas forward should check wt the Value-Added Reducer Grants program," commented Traci Bruckner of the & & k h a l Afbb, The U)08 Fam Bill made some important ,changes to the Value Added Producer Grants Rogram by giving a priority to projects from beginningand d l and mid-size family farmers and ranchers. Bmckner added. "Value-added, niche markets arr one
of the best strategies for creating and nlaintaining pmfitabilit for beginnin anc~s m a ~and miLiz family !amen and ranchers. Those applicants that meet the beginning, small or mid-size family farm criteria will automatically get 15 points out of a total of 90 and that can certainly tip the scale in their direction." According to Bruckner. the program was created to help producers expand their customerbase for the pmducts or commodities they pmduce. This results in a greater rtion of revenues the value-added derived activity being made available to the producer of the pmduct. The C e n t e r f o r is gearing up to help producers as much as possible during the r lication period by operating a BumBli Helpline when producers can call in and receive assistance in accessing the Value Added Roducer Grants Pmgram. For more information on the Value-Added Producer Grants Program and how to apply, visit:
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oopsivadg.htm or contact Traci Bruckner, assistant d i i t o r for the Rural Policy F k p m at t h e m W for Rural Affain at (402) 6872103 ext 1016, tracib@cfra.org.
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Lvons Mirror-Sun Lyons holds health care vigil Smallest community in the country to do so AngelRomero-Kcisterstood Other participants followed to find their claims denied. inthemiddleoftheempty grass Romero-Keister's lead and J think information like that covered lot on Main Street shared at the vigil. Most corn- should grab us and shake us in Lyons to tell her personal monly, they discussed the need UP a little," said Gary Cram health care story. Her story for health care coverage to be or Lyons. includcs the struggles that affordable for rural people and The Lyons vigil was one shc and her family have faced rural small businesses as well of about 360 vigils held nain finding affordable. quality as the need for Congress to tionwide and organized by health insurance coverage. crcatc a strong, public health a number of health care rcShe was joined by other resi- insurance option that brings formorganizations including dentsof 1.yens. k c a t u r . Rosa- competition tothe health insur- MoveOn.org and Democracy lie and Wisner who gathered in ance market and more afford- for America. The MoveOn orLyons last Wednesday night at able premiums for health care ganizations, from its website. says it "brings real Americans a health care reform vigil. They coverage. shared their health care stories "I fel<encouragedto discovtr back into the political process. looking to call attention to the aninteresting,committed~m- With 5 million members rcfonni that they hope will be munity of l&e-minded neigh- across America, from carpencoming soon in the national bors. It was wonderful not ters to stay-at-home moms debate over Congressional ef- having to drive to Sioux City, to business leaders. we work forts to reform the health care Omaha or Lincoln to express togetherto realize the progressystem. my concerns," said Pat Wood sive promise of our country. "Starting a small business, of Decatur. "My son does MoveOn isaservice, a way for combined with health issues not have health insurance and busy but concerned citizens that insurance companies has difficulty paying for his to find their political voice in a system dominated by hig define as so-called 'pre-exist- medication." ing conditions' hasemade it AS the discussion tur~ied rnoncy and big rncdia." "Nation:~lly. the hcalth impossible for us to afford from health care stories to health c u e covemge for me," Congressional reform effOnS. care reform dcbarc has takcn said Romero-Keister, Lyorls even more of the participants a somcwhar upiy turn. Thesc resident and owncr of. q a v - spoke up and stories turned vigils arc an ct'forl L o rcfocus ings Cafe in Lyons. ''Health from the personal to broader lhat dcbatc oti the I'act that there are niilliotls of peoplc in insurance costs are a ~ r T l t t l - topics. dous burden for rural small "Thc American Journal of thiscountry suffering virtually businesses, not to mention Medicine reports that 6 2 8 of everyday under our current. the emotional and iinancial U.S. bankruptcies are medi- dysfuncriorral health care toll that 1101having health care cally related and78% of those systcm. . My hope was to put aside coverage takcs on you." people had (or thought they had) health insurance only some of thc ugly politics that http://news.universaI-info.com Universal Information Services , Inc. Pmiik:111 - Center for Rural ARairs Recipient: John C r a w
we'vc all sccn over thc last month and put tlic cmphrisis back on thc stories or real peoplc." said Joh~iCrahtree or Lyons. I t is irnpor1:lrll to iiotc. according t o Moveori.org. that Lyons was the smallest community in America holding a health care vigil last Wcdncsday. a fact that those attending the vigil will help put a spotlight on how important these issues are to rural Americans. .. As the vigil came to aclose thc participants gathered in Cravings Cafe for coffee. dessert and morc conversations about what health care reform can and should mean for their rural communities and what chances there are to rcc rcal rcform from Congress this fall. "I believe in David over Goliath." said RichardChilton Srom Rosalie who came to the vigil representing himself, his companion Margery Coffey, a brcast cancer survivor and her cmployer Dennis Hastlngs, a stroke survivor.
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Working together to make healthier communitier CFRA guest opinion Rural people eat less nutritious food , get less exercise and are more often obese that our urban counlerparts. Howcvcr, whai gets less attention is the power of community in molding individual behavior. The !h.&-UBffarirs recent report - Healthy Communities-Healthy People (http://files.cfra.org/ pdfIHealthy-CommunitiesHealthy-People.pdf ) - examines practical examples of initiatives involving grocery stores, local governments, schools, churches, and libraries that could help build the rural environments that assist individual behaviors that lead to longer, healthier lives. Sadly, the health care reform debate has not focused enough on community-based initiatives to encourage healthier lifestyles among individuals,
To make sure funds are tarfamilies and. communities. The health care reform legisla- geted to the dommunities most tion approved by the Health, 'in need, the report proposes Education, Labor and Pen- that "circuit riders" should sions Commitactively engage tee of the U.S underserved, Senate contains rural coma provision to munities with provide grants public health to communities concerns by to implement going to them wellness and with informahealth promotion, financial tion initiatives, assistance and which, should a commitment be included in to help. the final verFederal polsion of health icy can assist carereform legrural AmeriBy Elisha Grcclcy Smith islation. cans in creating lbedia and Outreach However, healthier lifemany rural communities lack styles by funding community the resources for full-timestaff initiatives that create, improve, to seek out federal grants, and, or maintain an infrastructure as a result, miss out on public that supports preventative funding because they are un- behaviors like eating right and aware of opportunities. exercising.
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Guest Opinion Federal support for rural small business makes cents Small business is the but woefully underfilnded at backbone of rural America. just $4 n~illionfor the entire Investing in small business nation. That's just five dollars development is the most criti- for every $1.000.000 injected cal step our leaders in Wash- in big banks to solve the ington can take to create gen- nation's financial crisis. uine opportunity in our small President Obama protowns. posed increasing funding for Sniall businesses with ten this rural small business proor fewer employees are eco- gram to $26 million. Over the nomic building blocks that summer, the Senate passed a can help rebuild our econo- spending bill that would my, providing immediate eco- increase funding for rural nomic stimulus and planting small business development. the seeds of long term rural The House passed a bill that revitalization. Consider, dur- does not increase funding for ing the recession earlier in the program. In the coming month conthis decade. employment fell anlong large etiiployers but gressiotial leaders will meet grew among small business- to hammer out their differes. ences. and rural America will Recognizing the impor- be stronger if the Senate's tance of these small business- plan to increase funding this prevails. The es. the 2008 farm bill created program the new Rural Microentrepre- increase would also be a start neur Assistance Program to on reversing the bias against provide funding for loans, small rural businesses in ecotraining and assistance to nomic policy. Contuct Brian Depew, rural small businesses. The program is a valuable writer ut hricrnd@cfra.org, resource for rural America. Ce,ttrt-.
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September BEAP hours Dcna Beck, cerltral and southwest Nel~mskaBusiness Specialist with the Center forKural Affi~irs'Rural Enterprise &sistauc~.Project will hold ofice Ilours in MvCook on Seplember 25th. Hours will be ~ o : o oa.m. until 2:45 p.m.hlcCook Economic I)evelopment Corp. (MEIIC) will hi~ndlethe appointments; (308) 345-1200. MZ:.I)C office is located at ; { oNorris ~ Avenue, Suite 200. TIlc Ccntcr K&El.ltcn,rlhc~rn Project (RFAP) and its services are availublc to rural conimunities across Nebraska. REAP offers tccl~nicalassistance, educational and networking opportul~ities,and a loan program for small businesses. W is designcd to assist all tyl~esof s~nallbusinesses, including I~usincsseswith 5 or fewer employees, self-employed full-time, part-time, homc-bascd, farmbased, start-up, and store-front 1)usinesses. W II;IS six regionally based Business Specialists ;lcbrossNebri~ska.'I'hese Business Specialists can get involvc*din assisting rntrt!preneurs at various stagcs of their l>usincssprogress.
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Le alize hemp Open near5.ditor.
As per Iny article of April I all1 again soap-boxing for industrial hemp. There arc thousands of uses for it, including evcl-jthing from bioluels to building materials. Namely, a couple of uses are for nlaki t ~ gthe best kind of rope there is and some car makers use it in sollle of their cars. A very important additional use is nlaking making paper, as I said before. There is a negligible amount of 'l'tlC in inchstrial hemp. Our governmt!nt, probably in error. ruled its production in the United States illegal, confusing it with marijuana. It would seem that Nebraska is "il~issingthe boat" in not hcing permitted to grow it. The income from it would be great for our farmers and it would save Inany dollars for our companies that use hemp in their productions. Newsprint has to be shipped at a very high price from Canada, which uses helrlp in their production. The cost of transportation as well as the purchase price is no doubt heing reflected in our subscription r as price for o ~ l newspapers 29, of this ycar,
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well its magazines and \mious oll~eriten~sused in our I~omrs. 110 you value the privilege of having reading material in hand and being able to lily it aside for reference Inter on? Maybe you like to clip out an article. I Iow itbout re-reacling ii letter? Ciin this he done on the Web? We need to do ;rll we can to help kecp our reacting materials, especially. I'm adding to this article a copy of 1111 articlc from the September Rural Enterprise Assistance Program newsletter. Nehraska should follo\v suit. "Orcgon: With the signature of Gov. Ted Kulongoski, the state has legalized the production. trade and possession of il~dustrialhelnp. Bi-partisan support passcd the bill quickly with a vote of 46-11 in \he slate Housc of Representiitives and 27-2 itr the Senate. Oregon joins Maine, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota and Vermont, all passing ~)ro-l~emp laws or resolutions in 2009. A total of 16 states have pitssed simi-
legislation lar ~)ro-Iw~ii~) sinccb industrial hemp pro<luction was outla\vetl over :;o Wars ago. 1:ederal law permits only the import of industrial Ilen~p,not its production." Readers, please contact our st:ttcn olfici;tls hy phone, letter vr enl:\ii. 1,istrd below is for your inlormation on contilcts. Sen. Mark Christensen PO Box loo0 State Capitol Lincoln, NE 68509. Phone (402) 471-2244 email mchristensen@leg.ne.gov Ask him to please iotroducc Icgislittion for this to be voted on. Gov. Dave Heineman PO Box 94848 Lincoln, NE 68509 Phone (402) 471-6031 Web -mail http//www.governor.nehraska Ask him to consider passing Icgislation when this conics across his desk. A copy 01' this article is being m:lilrd to Scn. Christensen itnd Gov. Heinem;in.
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Sincerely, Esther Wissbaum McCook
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