Roundup: May 11, 2022
Recent Publications
N. William Hines (Iowa Law) recently published a piece on concentrated animal feeding operations and U.S. law in the Iowa Law Review.
Amy M.G. Kandilov (RTI International) and Ivan T. Kandilov (Agricultural and Resource Economics, North Carolina State) published The Impact of the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansions on Agricultural Workers’ Health Insurance Coverage, Medical Care Utilization, and Labor Supply in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
Deals in the Heartland by Christiana Ochoa (Indiana Law), Kacey Cook (Indiana Law), and Hanna Weil (Minnesota Law) is forthcoming in the Minnesota Law Review and analyzes how rural communities are impacted by large-scale wind farms and emerging opposition to renewable energy projects.
The newest volume of Great Plains Research is now available. This volume features articles on glacial erratics in Eastern Nebraska, attitudes toward wind energy, and the intersection of gender and residential decision-making in the rural Great Plains.
Alexandra Huneeus (Wisconsin Law) recently published The Struggle for Rights of Natures in the United States in the Wisconsin Law Review.
Sungkwol Park (Policy Assessment Division, Korean Ministry of Economy and Finance), Xiaoyong Zheng (Agricultural and Resource Economics, North Carolina State ), Roderick M. Rejesus (Agricultural and Resource Economics, North Carolina State), and Barry K. Goodwin (Agricultural and Resource Economics, North Carolina State) published Somebody’s Watching Me! Impacts of the Spot Check List Program in U.S. Crop Insurance in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
News & Commentary
The Economist recently published a piece investigating the impact of farm consolidation on rural America.
Elizabeth Rembert of Nebraska Public Media has a recent piece on electric pickup trucks and rural America.
Ben Sandman’s piece We Need to Talk About Rural Gentrification was published recently in Critical Mass. In January, the Writing Westward Podcast discussed one of the works featured in this article, Pushed Out: Contested Development and Rural Gentrification in the US West, with author Ryanne Pilgeram.
Bryce Oates wrote a piece on lack of access to banking in rural places for The Daily Yonder.
Last month the White House announced a “Rural Playbook.” Bryce Oates discusses this effort in a piece for The Daily Yonder. The White House also recently announced the launch of the Rural Partners Network.
Alex Brown published a piece on private land and state conservation policy.
Recently the U.S. Census Bureau announced a change in the definition of urban area which means more than 1,300 small cities, towns, and villages previously designated as urban will now be considered rural. This AP News piece by Mike Schneider has more.
Robert Leonard published his guest essay Biden Has Already Done More for Rural America Than Trump Ever Did in the New York Times.
Kristi Eaton published Ups and Downs- Rural Tourism After Two Years into the Pandemic in The Daily Yonder.
Events & Recordings
The National Conference of State Legislature’s Natural Resources and Infrastructure Committee Spring Webinar Series continues. Upcoming sessions focus on school bus electrification and the benefits of wildlife infrastructure. More information and registration is available here.