Recent Publications

Refereed Publications

Lobao, Linda and Curtis Stofferahn, 2007. The Community Effects of Industrialized Farming: Social Science Research and Challenges to Corporate Farming Laws .Forthcoming in 2008 in  Agriculture, Food and Human Values.

Stofferahn, Curtis Stofferahn. 2004 Individualism or Cooperation: Preferences for Sharing Machinery and Labor; Journal of Cooperation 18:1-17.

Stofferahn, Curtis. 2000 Underemployment: Social Fact or Socially Constructed Reality? in Rural Sociology 65 (2): 311-330 (Special edition on qualitative methods).

Stofferahn, Curtis. 1997 Making a Living: Adaptation Strategies of the Rural Underem­ployed , The Great Plains Sociologist: 10: 48 -67.

Invited Publications

Stofferahn, Curtis W 1998. Convergence, Divergence, or Similarity?: A Test of Alternative Explanations for Perceptions of Threats to Rural North Dakota and Support for Economic Development Strategies , North Dakota Quarterly . 65(4): 228-253

Stofferahn, Curtis W 2000. Why Should Urban North Dakotans Care about Rural North Dakotans ? Invited article for Prairie Public Television Website on The Changing Face of Agriculture .

Book Reviews

2004 Marsden: The Condition of Rural Sustainability; Rural Sociology 69(2):313-315

Forthcoming

2005 Dakota Growers Pasta Company and the Rhetoric of Conversion , Final Report Submitted to Rural Business and Cooperative Services. Forthcoming as a USDA RBCS Publication.

Articles Under Consideration

Stofferahn, Curtis W. 2007 New Generation Cooperatives Make A Difference?: An Analysis of the Impact on Community Capitals, Submitted to Rural Sociology.

Stofferahn, Curtis W. 2007 Personal, Farm and Value Orientations in Conversion to Organic Farming, Submitted to the Journal of Sustainable Agriculture

Other Publications

Stofferahn, Curtis, 2005. Dakota Growers Pasta Company and the Discourse of Conversion, Final Report Submitted to Rural Development -- Cooperative Programs, United States Department of Agriculture

Stofferahn, Curtis, 2006. Industrialized Farming and Its Relationship to Community Well-Being: An Update of a 2000 Report by Linda Lobao. Prepared for the State of North Dakota, Office of the Attorney General.

Stofferahn, Curtis and Linda Tinderholt, 2006. Barriers to Transitioning to Organic Production: Data Analysis. Prepared for The Foundation for Agricultural & Rural Resources Management & Sustainability

Stofferahn, Curtis, 2005. Dakota Growers Pasta Company and the Discourse of Conversion, Published by the University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives, Madison WI.

Stofferahn, Curtis and Linda Tinderholt. 2005. Do New Generation Cooperatives Make a Difference? Report prepared for Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives, University of Wisconsin, Madison .

Hulse, Dean and Curtis Stofferahn. 2004 Defining Mission: Calling upon Land Grant Institutions to Serve Rural America in the Twenty-First Century , Position paper of the Northern Plains Sustainable Agriculture Society

Goreham, Gary and Curtis Stofferahn (eds.). 2000. Enhancing Local/Regional Food Systems for Sustainable Development: Leaders Workbook . Prepared for the NDSU Extension Program's Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Professional Training Program.

Stofferahn, Curtis. 2000. Local/Regional Food Systems . In Enhancing Local/Regional Food Systems for Sustainable Development: Leaders Workbook. Prepared for the NDSU Extension Program's Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Professional Training Program. Amazing Grains - Grand Forks Food Cooperative Case Study and UND Dining Services Case Study In Chapter 3: Case Examples of Alternative Components in a Community's Food System. In Enhancing Local/Regional Food Systems for Sustainable Development: Leaders Workbook. Prepared for the NDSU Extension Program's Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education Professional Training Program

Stofferahn, Curtis W.; Gary Goreham, and Kelli Rice. 1998. Evaluation of Marketplace of Ideas. Prepared for the ND Department of Agriculture.

Recent Rural Life Poll Publications

Stofferahn, Curtis and Linda Tinderholt, 2006. North Dakota Rural Life Poll, Executive Summary. University of North Dakota, Center for Rural Studies: Grand Forks , ND 58202

Stofferahn, Curtis. 1999. North Dakota Rural Life Poll, Executive Summary, North Dakota State University , Institute for Regional Studies: Fargo, ND