ROAD TO RECOVERY: Millennial- and Gen X-owned businesses inject new life into the remote farming and ranching communities of Burns and hines.

The newly renovated Historic Central Hotel in the Eastern Oregon town of Burns is a reminder of this remote farming community's once vibrant economic past. But Burns and Hines are starting to see buds of growth as new businesses take root, including an agricultural-products manufacturing plant scheduled to open by March 2020 on the site of the former Hines mill. The biggest economic driver in Harney County is the opening of the agricultural pellet factory on the former site of the Hines Lumber mill. [Extracted from the article]
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