How many times have you been asked to define rural? Timothy Collins, assistant director of the Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs, was asked to address this issue before the U.S. House Agriculture Subcommittee on Rural Development, Biotechnology, and Foreign Agriculture last month. A quick answer for Collins, and for many of us in a pinch, typically is ‘you know rural when you see it’ but he suggests that “this approach doesn’t fly when it comes to policy implementation and the distribution of billions of dollars for rural development projects.” Read his post in Daily Yonder.
