10-18 IAN Eisenhower Award

 Idaho Grain Producers Association announces prestigious award for one of its own. Leader Chosen for Prestigious National Program. The Idaho Grain Producers Association (IGPA) member of the Board of Directors, Robert Blair, was recently named as an Agriculture Fellow for the prestigious Eisenhower Fellowship program.  

Blair was chosen as one of two farmers from a competitive nationwide pool of applicants for the 2011 program chaired by retired U.S. General Colin Powell.  His work to tout the benefits of precision technology as a new frontier in production agriculture caught the attention of the Eisenhower Fellowship.

Blair, a family farmer from Leland, Idaho, serves as the Nez Perce County representative on the IGPA Board of Directors and chairs the Congressional, Legislative, Tax and Transportation Committee. Here’s Travis Jones, IGPA Executive Director. “The impact is that Idaho can produce some pretty highly qualified farmers.” I happen to know Robert Blair and have followed his work in precision agriculture which includes a drone-like plane that can take aerial surveys of farmers’ fields and produce highly speific analyses of irrigation status, weed count and fertilizer needs. Congratulations to him. This is David Sparks.