Precision Farm Grant CHS Foundation Gift Supports U of I Efforts to Expand Precision Agriculture Education.
The University of Idaho plans to create a precision agriculture education certificate program and offer a workshop this summer to help high school teachers include new developments in their classes. The new program expands on recent College of agriculture and life sciences efforts to help Idaho s farmers and ranchers operate more efficiently improve healed and better protect the environment through precision agriculture.
The CHS foundation boosted the precision agriculture certificate program with a $272,676 gift announced Wednesday to fund expanded college classes and the summer workshop the foundation donated a total of $1 million nationwide and is funded by gifts from CHS the nations largest farmer owned cooperative.