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Main Street Montana Spring Edition Highlights Roosevelt County

"Wolf Point – Wheat and Oil Capital of N.E. Montana," reads
the 1953 license plate held by former Chamber Secretary Pete Coffey on the
cover of the spring edition of the Main Street Montana; a publication
produced by the Montana Department of Labor and Industry in partnership
with the Montana Department of Commerce and the Governor’s Office of
Economic Development.

"Historically Montana has been an agricultural exporting state," said
Labor Commissioner Keith Kelly. "Today we face the challenge of growing
our rural communities to reduce the exportation of our workforce."

From cash crop to cutting edge, the spring edition unearths how rural
Montana, is partnering, with the assistance of Montana Agro-Energy Plan
Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development (MAP-WIRED) funds,
for a global phenomenon with government, local Innovation Centers, Tribes,
educators, private industry, farmers and community-based entrepreneurs.

"Five decades ago it was a plea for water that changed the face of
farming in northeastern Montana," recalls Kelly. "Today it’s
diversification. By shifting from a cash crop economy to one that is
boosted by agricultural production and processing of renewable energy we
have the ability to increase the net return and stability of farm income,
reduce the out-migration of our rural workforce, and become competitive in
the global market."

An electronic copy of the publication is available at http://www.mainstreet.mt.gov

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