Joel Schumacher, an extension economics associate specialist in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics at Montana State University. Much of his research has focused on understanding the economics and public policy implications of small and community scale alternative energy projects. Joel also researches and provides extension training in retirement planning, saving and investing. Helping Montanans stay up to date on the ever changing laws and regulations affecting consumer issues is an interesting and challenging area.
In April of 2019, I wrote a blog post “Who is average?” exploring some of the limitations of only examining…
USDA publishes “Rural America at a Glance” each year. I often find some interesting facts in this report. This year…
Every decade the census attempts to count everyone in the country. Many government programs utilize population as a component of…
In 2006, when I started with MSU Extension, one of the hot economic issues was energy. Energy prices were high…
There is a limitless number of topics that we could explore the changes to as a result of recent events.…