In this issue of Enterprising Rural Families, readers learn about saving for retirement and succession planning.

Details the steps to take to designate succession in a family business. This newsletter is published monthly by the University of Wyoming Cooperative Extension Service.

A Dozen Best Practices for Excellent Customer Service

This issue focuses on the generation known as The Millennials born between 1980 and 2000. Who are they and how do you manage them in the workplace?

Food security in the Western U.S.

Family Business Ghosts: When rural families find themselves going around and around in circles,unable to solve problems and get on with life, it is often because they are haunted by ghosts from the past.

This issue of the University of Wyoming Cooperative Extension newsletter focuses on "Family Councils."

This issue of the University of Wyoming Cooperative Extension newsletter focuses on "Hiring the Right Employee the First Time."

This issue of the University of Wyoming Cooperative Extension newsletter focuses on "Policies to Guide Disciplinary Action."

This issue of the University of Wyoming Cooperative Extension Service publication focuses on "Building Sustainable Family Businesses."

A New Mexico irrigation district has taken an innovative and aggressive approach to tackle clean water and energy challenges by taking advantage of unique characteristics of the local watershed and irrigation project. Elephant Butte Irrigation District is employing the ingenuity of farmers and is now generating clean, renewable alternative energy within its existing canal system.

A summary of population changes in Washington between 1980 and 2006. Published by the Western Rural Development Center as part of a series on population trends in the western U.S.

A summary of population changes in California between 1980 and 2006. Published by the Western Rural Development Center as part of a series on population trends in the western U.S.

A summary of population changes in Arizona between 1980 and 2006. Published by the Western Rural Development Center as part of a series on population trends in the western U.S.

A summary of population changes in Alaska between 1980 and 2006. Published by the Western Rural Development Center as part of a series on population trends in the western U.S.

A summary of land use in the western U.S. published by the Western Rural Development Center as part of a series on population changes in the region between 1980 and 2006.

Policy Issues is published by the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) and is a series of online peer-reviewed articles. Each article presents a short analysis and discussion focusing on timely policy issues targeted for those in public and private sector decision-making roles that have a stake in the national issues addressed.

Choices Magazine is a free online journal published by the Agricultural and Applied Economic Association. The magazine is published quarterly and shares research findings with the public on relevant and timely issues.

This issue discusses Building Sustainable Family Businesses. Published monthly by University of Wyoming Cooperative Extension Service.

Consider a family in business together. One of the five siblings is killed in an equipment accident, then, within a few months, another announces that he is divorcing his unfaithful wife. As shareholders in the family business, each of these siblings inherited equal shares of the company. As children, they always got along well and their hardworking parents assumed they always would, so established no guidelines for what might eventually happen to the shares they gave each child.