In the broadest sense, includes the practices, objects, beliefs, and values that constitute a way of life for rural people. Culture shapes what people in rural places do, think, feel, and believe.
In the broadest sense, includes the practices, objects, beliefs, and values that constitute a way of life for rural people. Culture shapes what people in rural places do, think, feel, and believe.
Designed field systems for production of plant species for food and other human needs.
An act committed or omitted in violation of law; an unlawful activity. The following is a brief exploration of rural crime by way of comparisons to urban crime and pointed differences in the operations of the criminal justice system in rural America.
People who ride horses and tend cattle or horses for pay; rodeo performers.
A broad effort in the earlier part of the twentieth century to stimulate, organize and sustain improvements in all aspects of American rural life.
All activities from input supply, production and processing to the delivery of finished food, feed and industrial corn products to final users.
Protection, enhancement, management, public policies and wise use of soil resources to prevent the loss of soil through erosion or degradation.
The characteristics and efficiency of energy use as a vital input in U.S. agriculture.
Rights to and ownership of water and land that have caused arguments, disputes and even wars. Water disputes have existed from the founding of America up to the current time.
Disagreement between two or more parties over the use or management of terrestrial, aquatic, and atmospheric systems, including their mineral, biotic, and ecosystem components.
The disruption of social relationships within a selfidentified group of people located in a specific location.
Ratings of the creditworthiness of business borrowers were provided historically in the United States by two types of firms: credit-reporting agencies and credit-rating agencies.
Plastic cards that pay for financial transactions by extending credit to the user when the purchase or transaction is complete.
Cotton has played an important role in the growth and development of U.S. agriculture, industry, and trade almost from the birth of the nation.
A form of business organization in which the capital of the firm is supplied by shareholders.
Cooper was born in New York City to a family that had resided in the area since the mid-17th century.
Born in Sandusky, Ohio, Cooke’s father was a lawyer who also sat in Congress. After finishing school, Jay took a job in St. Louis, but his employer was ruined in the Panic of 1837. He moved to Philadelphia.
A movement that began developing in the early 20th century, dedicated to protecting the rights of consumers against big business.
Large, diversified holding companies that buy operating companies to form corporations with a wide array of interests.
The Conestoga wagon, also called the “ship of inland commerce” and the “Dutch wagon,” was a heavy horse-drawn vehicle that, prior to the extension of the RAILROADS across the Allegheny Mountains in the 1850s, became the primary method of transporting freight to the interior regions of the United States.
While the U.S. computer industry began as a direct result of large-scale Department of Defense spending on electronic digital computing research during and shortly after World War II...
A law passed by Congress in 1977 in response to perceived failings of banks in meeting the credit needs of the communities in which they operate, especially low- and moderate-income neighborhoods.
The regulatory body overseeing the FUTURES MARKETS.
