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Steve Turner, left, director of the Southern Rural Development Center at º£½ÇÒùĸÂÒÂ×, hands the microphone to John Rounsaville, state director for USDA Rural Development in Mississippi, during Thursday's [June 21] Rural Opportunity Initiative workshop. The event brought together rural small business owners with investors from around the country. Rounsaville, an MSU alumnus, gave the workshop's keynote address.