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Can Manufacturing Reverse Rural Great Plains Depopulation?

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  • McGranahan, David A.

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Manufacturing has been expanding in the rural Great Plains, more rapidly than in the rest of the rural United States, but much of the expansion has been to larger, growing places and much has been in meat packing, which tends to hire low-skill workers—a group in relatively short supply in much of the region. Manufacturers in areas of substantial population loss report problems with finding labor and, even more often, with the attractiveness of the area to managers and professionals. The rural Great Plains seems particularly suited to advanced technology manufacturing, if the problem of attracting managers and professionals could be eased. Manufacturers in the region participate heavily in government programs, but no more so than in other rural regions. Those in areas of decline have tended to receive greater support.

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  • McGranahan, David A., 1998. "Can Manufacturing Reverse Rural Great Plains Depopulation?," Rural America/ Rural Development Perspectives, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, vol. 13(1), February.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uersra:289741
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.289741
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    1. Leistritz, F. Larry & Sell, Randall S., 2000. "Agricultural Processing Plants In North Dakota: Socioeconomic Impacts," Agricultural Economics Reports 23470, North Dakota State University, Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics.
    2. Artz, Georgeanne M. & Jackson, Rebecca & Orazem, Peter F., 2010. "Is It a Jungle Out There? Meat Packing, Immigrants, and Rural Communities," Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Western Agricultural Economics Association, vol. 35(2), pages 1-17, August.
    3. Meri Davlasheridze & Pinar C. Geylani, 2017. "Small Business vulnerability to floods and the effects of disaster loans," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 49(4), pages 865-888, December.
    4. Katherine Curtis White, 2008. "Population change and farm dependence: Temporal and spatial variation in the U.S. great plains, 1900–2000," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 45(2), pages 363-386, May.
    5. Loewe, Paula & Van der Sluis, Evert, 2000. "Socioeconomic Conditions For And Impacts Of Establishing And Operating A New Generation Cooperative: The Case Of The South Dakota Soybean Processors," 2000 Annual Meeting, June 29-July 1, 2000, Vancouver, British Columbia 36490, Western Agricultural Economics Association.
    6. Van der Sluis, Evert & Loewe, Paula, 2000. "The South Dakota Soybean Processors Cooperative: Socioeconomic Impacts," 2000 Annual Meeting, December 12-13 31811, NCERA-194 Research on Cooperatives.
    7. Schluter, Gerald E. & Lee, Chinkook, 2004. "Is There a Link between the Changing Skills of Labor Used in U.S. Processed Food Trade and Rural Employment?," Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Southern Agricultural Economics Association, vol. 36(3), pages 1-13, December.
    8. Adamson, Dwight W. & Waugh, Andrew, 2012. "Farm Operator Entry and Exit Behavior: A Longitudinal Analysis," 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington 124053, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.

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