Sentences with phrase «many rural businesses»

Using contact information provided by the development agency, Spear and his team also invited rural business owners to information sessions and offered them six - month trial subscriptions to Quadrem.

Before moving to Texas this summer to head up the Texas Farm Service Agency, Judy Canales served as the Administrator for Rural Business Development and Cooperative Programs in the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

So while rural businesses may not actively plan to branch out next year, Fortunato implies, there's a good chance they'll do so if they can help a customer.

In other words «offering a new service» in a rural business may not come with a glitzy email blast, but rather a quietly completed project for a long - time customer.

Rural businesses, on the other hand, were 16 percent of our overall respondents but just 11 percent of those who planned to expand their service offerings.

Lack of demand may also present a challenge to many rural business owners, according to an article by William Shuffstall, senior extension educator, Economic and Community Development, at PennState Extension (@agsciences).

That means urban business owners are 1.7 times more likely than rural business owners to have plans for launching new services in 2017.

The other data point that stood out was the divide between urban and rural business owners who plan to offer a new service next year.

Bank of America highlighted one distinction: Rural business owners are more confident about the economy, while urban business owners are more upbeat about revenue, growth and hiring trends.

The Rural Business Awards These aim to promote businesses based in rural areas.

«The submission deadline is September 6, so there is still time for rural businesses, such as hotels and pubs, to write in to government to share their experiences of shooting tourism as further case studies to the inquiry».

Everyone who supports rural businesses, produce and communities is urged to nominate their favourites and help celebrate the best of rural life.

The UK's largest shooting organisation has drawn on national research and 11 case studies to evidence the social and economic benefit of shooting tourism for rural businesses and communities.

Rural Affairs Rural businesses are suffering during the economic downturn like their urban counterparts.

It would also challenge the viability of rural businesses that deliver # 200 million per annum and the public benefits that shooting provides.

Mike Cherry, National Policy Chairman, took part in a Q&A on the Guardian's Small Business Network this week to discuss the issues that face small rural businesses.

Many rural businesses could not survive without immigration or the EU in general.

The letter states that the tax could spell the end for many shoots and small rural businesses, leading to a loss of vital rural employment and a reduction in tourist income.

The UK's largest shooting organisation drew on national research and 11 case studies to evidence the social and economic benefit of shooting tourism for rural businesses and communities.

The project preserves local culture and the environment while promoting rural business initiatives.

The project preserves local culture and the environment while promoting rural business initiatives and stimulating competitiveness through active pedagogies.

From proposing the American Jobs Act to establishing the first - ever White House Rural Council — chaired by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack — the President wants the federal government to be the best possible partner for rural businesses and entrepreneurs and for

The Department of Agriculture runs a Rural Financial Counselling Service to support primary producers, fishermen and small rural businesses that are suffering financial hardship.

The Energy Audit and Renewable Energy Development Assistance Grant Program provides grant assistance to entities that will assist agriculture producers and small rural businesses by conducting energy audits and providing information on renewable energy development assistance.

Local conservationists on the ground do wonderful work to protect and improve wild landscapes, as do farmers, rural businesses and ordinary people.

Hispanic Association of Colleges & Universities 17 th Annual Capitol Forum United States Department of Agriculture Rural Business and Cooperative Service.

Rural Vermont, a Vermont statewide grassroots organization, works to support an economic policy for Vermont that serves agriculture, natural resource based industries, and small rural business, and provides good jobs, fair wages, decent health care, and housing and transportation for all rural citizens.

Rural businesses involve homes and livelihoods, not just jobs.

Tom, 32, was recognised for his work with farmers, landowners and rural businesses by being handed the Young Solicitor of the Year award by the judging panel.

Our team includes some of the country's top property and commercial lawyers with an in - depth understanding of the unique challenges faced by farms, country estates and other rural businesses.

Our lawyers understand better than most the commercial opportunities and the challenges that the owners of farms and rural businesses, country houses and landed estates face.

Our specialist lawyers understand how many rural businesses stay within a family for generations and rural communities have different priorities and interests to city dwellers.

Our well established team could advise you on all aspects of the Rural Business Structures.

The Rural Business All - Party Parliamentary Group has written to Matt Hancock calling for the government to put legally binding targets in place for 4G mobile network coverage

Insurance solutions to meet the needs of agriculture and rural businesses form part of rural insurance.

The rural insurance portfolio from SBI General helps farmers, traders, workers and other rural business owners to insure against any risks to their livelihood.

Bajaj Allianz General Insurance aims to increase its rural business to around 20 % in next five years from 6 - 7 % at present, and is planning big expansion in these regions, according to a top official.

Rural Insurance: It provides protection to agriculture and rural businesses against natural disasters

The Department of Agriculture runs a Rural Financial Counselling Service to support primary producers, fishermen and small rural businesses that are suffering financial hardship.

Not exact matches

Dave Shideler, a rural development specialist, discussed some of the challenges that face rural entrepreneurs — including isolation, communication challenges, fewer resources and the need to increase demand for their business — and practical ways to overcome those issues.

The business has been operating in WA since 1991 and there are 12 franchise and three company stores, nine of these in the metropolitan area and six in rural areas.

Today there are 26 so - called business development centers in rural South Africa.

They worry that the retrenchments of the past five years have disproportionately hurt rural and minority businesses and that all borrowers are paying more for services.

«They save lives in local hospitals and own businesses in communities urban and rural throughout this country.»

«Municipal and rural infrastructures may be improved through the investment into eco-friendly housing and businesses that create products and services for the benefits of the community and to consumers.»

In her role in Washington, D.C., Canales was in charge of managing rural lending programs for small businesses.

They also plan and direct policies and programs to promote industrial and commercial business development in urban and rural areas.

Rural outsourcing is emerging as a trend for big businesses in America — but is it something small business can tap into?

It was actually his great - grandmother Carrie Hawkins who had started the business as a farm stand in rural Syracuse to make ends meet during the depression.

When Congress crafted the Dodd - Frank bill of 2010 to overhaul the financial system it had Wall Street in mind, not the thousands of small and medium banks that help Average Joes across America — and especially in rural areas — pay for a car, a house or a new investment for their local business.