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Des Moines Register: Ag boom misses small towns

Posted Fri, 2011/05/20 - 9:12am by RCAP

Aside from some scattered bright spots, the biggest boom in farmland prices in 30 years has done little to reverse the gradual decline of small towns across Iowa. The same is true in agricultural communities across the country, according to scholars who track rural economies.

Read the full article [1]

Topics:
- farming [2],
- small towns [3],
- population [4],
- census [5],
- economy [6]

Source URL: http://www.rcap.org/node/500

Links:
[1] http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20110515/BUSINESS/105150328/Ag-boom-misses-small-towns
[2] http://www.rcap.org/taxonomy/term/401
[3] http://www.rcap.org/taxonomy/term/402
[4] http://www.rcap.org/taxonomy/term/147
[5] http://www.rcap.org/taxonomy/term/91
[6] http://www.rcap.org/taxonomy/term/403