How can farmers and businesses avoid competing against each other?
Where agriculture and rural development converge is where there can be success.
That’s the message John Monson, vice president of the Rural Capital Network of AgStar Financial Services, shared Tuesday at the fifth annual Albert Lea-Freeborn County Chamber of Commerce annual Agriculture Luncheon. Monson, who was hired by AgStar in 2006 to lead the institution’s Rural Capital Network team, explained the premise behind a recently developed Southern Minnesota Regional Competitiveness Project, which aims for collaboration amongst organizations, businesses and government agencies to create an economic development plan for the southern part of the state….
